D you save the SMSes you receive on your mobile

@mayka123 (16604)
India
December 17, 2011 6:41am CST
I have a very good collection of SMSes sent to me by friends and family in my mobile. I delete a few after forwarding them to others in my contact list but there are many that are too good to be deleted. Have now transferred them to my laptop. Do you save messages on your mobile or delete them soon after reading them.
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@jjzone44 (917)
• United States
18 Dec 11
Hi Mayka, I have my phone set to automatically delete messages after a certain period of time. The only ones I delete at once are if I get junk messages you know those ones from unknown numbers. Those I delete without ever opening them.
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@mayka123 (16604)
• India
18 Dec 11
I do not have the option of automatically deleting my messages on my mobile. I have to do it manually. I too delete the junk messages from strangers. And keep the good ones to be forwarded to others.
@mayka123 (16604)
• India
18 Dec 11
Am trying to find the set up in my handset. May be there is one and I dont know about it.
@jjzone44 (917)
• United States
18 Dec 11
Are you sure you don't have a setting for that. Usually somewhere in the phone's setup, it gives you the option to either delete messages after so many get to the inbox, or after a certain storage size is reached. Others have an option to delete messages after so many days. Different phone manufacturers have the option in different places.
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@dpk262006 (58678)
• Delhi, India
17 Dec 11
HI! I do some very good messages on my mobile and could not make self understand that those could be deleted. I try to retain as much as possible, depending upon the memory of my handset. Although, few weeks ago, due to some weird SMS or some technical problem, I lost all my saved messages at one go. It happened after I received an SMS from a new number. I am trying to build up my stock once again ............lol! May like to see this one: http://www.mylot.com/w/discussions/2420019.aspx
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@mayka123 (16604)
• India
17 Dec 11
I reemember you mentioning about some technical fault in your mobile. I hope you have built up your stock of SMSes now. I have now the option of downloading the sms on my laptop so have saved everything here. Have become a little lazy though now in forwarding my messages. Too preoccupied with a lot of other things just now. Will have to soon start sending the messages to help others build their stock!!!!
@dpk262006 (58678)
• Delhi, India
19 Dec 11
Vandy - Pl. check your mail box. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- mayka! It is good that you could save the SMSs on your laptop. Do not be lazy in forwarding messages to your friends.
@vandana7 (100524)
• India
17 Dec 11
Deepu..I learnt how to send SMS. Can I have your number..you are so trouble worthy..
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@sk66rc (4250)
• United States
28 Dec 11
I have my phone set up in a way that after a week, messages get deleted automatically... I usually keep all the e-mail on my laptop for a year...
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@mayka123 (16604)
• India
29 Dec 11
I love receiving and sending SMSes. So I do not like to delete the good messages till they are forwarded to others. Yes the sent messages are not saved. So I am automatically left with only the unsent messages in my mobile.
• United States
26 Dec 11
no i dont keep them. it would drive me crazy with as many as i get and i like to keep things tidy and im the same way with my email. unless its important it doesnt stay!
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@mayka123 (16604)
• India
27 Dec 11
May be I am not so tidy. And besides time does not permit me to check all the messages in my mobile as well as in my emails. Just now am on leave from office and doing a clearing of both my mobile messages as well as my email messages.
@vandana7 (100524)
• India
17 Dec 11
Well, at times. And then I delete when I get annoyed with the person..lol.
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@mayka123 (16604)
• India
18 Dec 11
Do you delete my messages??????
@vandana7 (100524)
• India
18 Dec 11
Even though I am not angry with you..
@surekharathi (14146)
• India
8 Mar 12
My mobile capacity is very less only 50 sms may be stored so most of the time I deleted my sms. But read two to three times and then removed. You are right very good sms received from my family members and friends my heart not gives the permission for deleting but my mobile is not give the permission for storing.
@mayka123 (16604)
• India
10 Mar 12
As on today I have about 3000 smses saved on my mobile which I just dont feel like deleting. May be I would take a back up of all the messages in my computer and then delete all the messages.
@savak03 (6684)
• United States
19 Dec 11
I have tons of emails that are too good to delete on my computer. I have them filed in folders of who sent them and sometimes pull them back up to send to someone else. I don't have a smart phone yet though so I don't get these kind of messages on my phone.
@savak03 (6684)
• United States
22 Dec 11
I don't have a smart phone yet though so I don't get these kind of messages on my phone. Unless you are talking about text messages. Those I delete, especially if they contain info that I don;t want anyone else to know.
• India
22 Dec 11
What about sms on mobiles ?
@myfb2009 (8296)
• Malaysia
17 Dec 11
Hi Mayka, i do saved some of the SMSes which sound very interesting. In fact, there are a few SMSes which being sent by my friends sounds very interesting and meaningful. So, i will save them in my mobile and forward them whenever i feels like to share them with the others. Even there are a few beautiful picture MMSes which i had saved in my mobile Because they are very meaningful and beautiful. So far, i haven't transferred them to my laptop yet. Because my mobile seems still having very large storage capacity.
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@mayka123 (16604)
• India
17 Dec 11
I do not have any MMSes in my mobile. nobody has sent me any as yet. But there are many beautiful messages that I did not want to delete. I have a large storing capacity in my mobile but did not want to take a chance so transferred them to my laptop.
@gaiza12 (4884)
• Philippines
17 Oct 12
I have a lot of saved messages especially from my bf. Oldest message I had was last 2006 and it is still on my sim card now with the new phone that I am using. I also did saved it in my computer just in case something goes wrong with my phone.
@tessa9 (1085)
• Philippines
17 Dec 11
I rarely save sms from friends or family or even co workers. If they sent something important then I will put it in my notebook. I just checked my phone and I have only 4 messages saved, I think that is pretty small considering I had my phone for 2 years now.
@mayka123 (16604)
• India
17 Dec 11
I have more than a thousand messages in my inbox as of now. I delete the ones that are not too interesting or just plain messages but the quotes are all saved by me.
• India
22 Dec 11
Dude I have a collection of 1500 Jokes in my cell phones. Can you imagine 1500 jokes on one cell phone. Well thats a huge number among my friends. But they are of no use. They are just consuming 2MB of my 6MB of phone memory. Maybe someday I will delete them all.
@wittynet (4421)
• Philippines
19 Dec 11
Hello, mayka123! When I was younger, I used to save so many messages. But now that I'm already 38, I don't feel saving any. Maybe because I enjoy deleting messages through delete all. LOL I have a lot of saved messages in my yahoo email. I made a folder for each friend, and I always move their important messages to their specific folders. I have some saved messages in my other number. It's my sim number for my Globe tattoo stick plan. They are all messages from Globe with regard to my monthly bills.
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@mayka123 (16604)
• India
19 Dec 11
I have got umpteen messages in my email inbox-es. After all the space there is unlimited. But in our mobile handset we have limited space so we cannot save all the messages that we receive. So sometimes I am in a fix as to which messages to delete and which to keep.
• India
22 Dec 11
I mostly used to save the messages if they are very god and I used them to forward to others. This is what I usually do. What about you guys ?
• India
21 Dec 11
Yes I do save a lot of msgs and now have more than 100 msgs stored on my mobile. I like to store some jokes or funny msgs which I may have liked, some thought provoking forwads I can read again and amost importantly some of the more romantic msgs my fiance has sent me. When I look back and read these msgs ( especially my finace's ) it really makes me happy and even when we sometimes fight a look at these msgs calms me down as I remember the good times.
• Philippines
18 Dec 11
I have a LOT of saved messages on my mobile phones! They are so many that my phones would often flash a "95% or 100% full" reminder so I'd have to delete several at one go to be able to send a new message. But before I do erase something, I have this small notebook where I write down the messages that really touched me. I include there the dates and names of the persons who sent the SMS. Since I write for print publications, I also get a lot of appreciative text messages from people I have interviewed and featured in my articles and I really try to keep those as much as possible. It's so nice to read them once in a while especially during times when I get frustrated with my work and I need to be inspired to keep writing again.
• Philippines
18 Dec 11
I have a LOT of saved messages on my mobile phones! They are so many that my phones would often flash a "95% or 100% full" reminder so I'd have to delete several at one go to be able to send a new message. But before I do erase something, I have this small notebook where I write down the messages that really touched me. I include there the dates and names of the persons who sent the SMS. Since I write for print publications, I also get a lot of appreciative text messages from people I have interviewed and featured in my articles and I really try to keep those as much as possible. It's so nice to read them once in a while especially during times when I get frustrated with my work and I need to be inspired to keep writing again.
@bjcyrix (6901)
• Philippines
20 Dec 11
I used to do that too. I would save all the wonderful quotes and inspiring messages and even the jokes. I would also just delete them when Ive "spread the message". Then my saving habits changed from quotes to specific sms conversations with a particular someone. It could be a funny recollection from a friend or just the simple greetings from my special someone. Those conversations/messages that never fail to make me smile, giggle, and even laugh when I read them again. Right now, I saved a year's worth of conversation from a particular someone. We grew close but somehow, the past months, made us grew apart. So as part of my New Year's celebration, Im deleting everything from my inbox, specially those sms' that came from him. Im starting the new year fresh, full of hope, and positivity for the next year. Merry Christmas^_^
@adhyz82 (36249)
• Indonesia
19 Dec 11
i saved until 30 sms from my friend and my family. it`s to good for deleted now..it`s really imortant because some of the saved SMS is about the account bank..
• India
17 Dec 11
Hello mayka: you seem to be having a very lively & interesting friend group with every one creating lovely messages. Good to know! Yea, and you are doing the right thing by optimizing the methods to organize and archive good ones. I get no such meaningful messages. I know however that the mobile device has a setting to retain a certain no. of messages. I have not had to change those either.