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I received a bunch of SMS messages over the holidays wishing me something like:

merry xmas

OR

Merry Christmas!

if they’re the “obsessive compulsive, I need punctuation” type.

For whatever reason last year I don’t think I received a single text, which strikes me as odd. Has there been some shift in the SMS time-space continuum? Do I have more friends (or people who want things from me)? Or maybe its me - I only recently (i.e. this last year) started texting people non stop.

Its such an odd medium. It allows you to remain in touch, but you never have to talk to the person, you can’t say very much, and you don’t have to use proper spelling/grammar. Which is perfect for those “I feel obligated to talk to you, but don’t really want to” type situations. Or for the “I need to communicate something to you but I don’t want to spend 5 minutes talking to you” situations.

But then there are the people that you actually do want to talk to and you end up communicating very little via texts. For whatever reason, it seems hard to pick up the phone and actually call:

Friend: Merry Christmas Dan! I'm in town r u?
Dan: merry xmas! no in Hawaii, get back sat. u there still?
Friend: No, going to be gone. How's life?
Dan: Good good. Relaxed. How's life with u?
Friend: ... [more empty texting]

And so it continues until your thumbs fall off.

And so before my thumbs fall off here, I’d like to send out a text to you all:

a (belated) merry xmas 2 u and hope u have a happy new year

This entry was posted on Wednesday, December 26th, 2007 at 3:44 pm and is filed under Random.