My sons cell phone...
By ctryhnny
@ctryhnny (3460)
United States
December 11, 2012 12:27pm CST
My son goes through phones like I go through coffee...a lot! He's dropped it in water when he was fishing and is always dropping it. It's become so bad that I can't talk to him on it and all he can do it text. He's a lot better at texting than I am because the keys on my phone are so small and it takes forever for me to send him a text. I can't remember the last time I heard my sons voice over a phone! The few times I tried calling him because I too much to say to text and when he picks up my call he only has the time to say "text me" and his phone drops the call. He's needed a new one for months but he's content texting people rather than talking on the phone. I've learned that if I have something important to say that I should call his wife's phone because she will answer it and talk. Do your kids text more than call you? Do you text more than call people?
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@angelkarah050182 (4980)
• Philippines
12 Dec 12
My kid is only 8 years old. He has a phone but his father is using it for his business(selling airtime loads). LOL. I don't call much. I just prefer sending text messages. However, if it's emergency, I have to make calls especially if I have to say much or to be sure that the receiver will get my message immediately. Sometimes text messages are not on time to arrive. I hope your son will get a new phone so that you can call him whenever you want to.
@angelkarah050182 (4980)
• Philippines
12 Dec 12
Oh, so your phone is a touch phone. Yeah, it's difficult to type messages on touch screen phones. I guess he prefers sending and receiving text messages then.
@wilsongoddard (7291)
• United States
12 Dec 12
I haven't texted in more than two years. I simply have no reason to do so. In fact, we do not even have that feature enabled, since my boyfriend and I don't bother with it.
If I want to contact my closest friends, I will email them. It makes a lot more sense than texting people, since we have far more to say than what could easily fit within a text message.
@wilsongoddard (7291)
• United States
12 Dec 12
I think that I'm generally too verbose to be able to function within such a format. Plus, I don't get to see two of my closest friends, so I always have a lot that I want to tell them. I miss having them around. 
@alberello (4752)
• Italy
12 Dec 12
Well, my brother has changed in recent years a multitude of cellphone.
I must say that he is a very careless, often fall to the ground (with the consequent splitting of the glass), or lose them!
I, however in the few examples that I had, I kept them all carefully.
For Christmas he has a really bought a "stratospheric" cellphone, but in theory if not deserve it!
From what I could understand your phone is not a full touch screen, as you talked about the keys to press.
In every way, good for him (my brother) that currently has a great product!
@israelaguilar (18)
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12 Dec 12
this is a very normal situation this days. people of this age are very techie as they say. maybe we just need to cope with them or we need to tell them that they should also cope wth us.
@subhojit10 (7375)
• India
11 Dec 12
Thanks a ton for sharing this discussion. Well yes i like texting than calling people as i do not want to waste money by calling every one. I find texting an easy way to get connected with the people.
i feel that with my texting habits i able to stay connected with every people as it is not possible to call every one. I make it a point that i am having a message pack in my cell so that i never run out of sms balance. My friends say that i am very good at texting others. Ha ha ha.
What say?
@StLouisMetroTutoring (678)
• St. Peters, Missouri
12 Dec 12
My 20 year old daughter seems to always be texting someone. She can talk to 3 or 4 different people at the same time. Drives me crazy. I sometimes have to remind her that whoever she's talking to can wait while she does her homework or while she eats dinner with the family. She is fast. She laughs at me all the time and tells me how slow I am when I text. I text a lot more than I used to, but I still don't text that often. But it is a convenient way to send short messages. Most of the parents of my students will text me to let me know if they need to cancel lessons or something like that. But I don't usually carry on full conversations that way.
@ctryhnny (3460)
• United States
12 Dec 12
I think it's very hard to have a real conversation through texting. It's so much better to say what you need to say in as many words as you need on the phone. Texting is good for people who have meetings that get cancelled sometimes. They aren't waiting for a text back.
