Are you a text-a-holic ?? How many do you send per month roughly ?

Gladly Im not but I am guilty of sending far more than I probably should :suspect:

I send between 20-30 a month. I'm not a fan of texting but I do like the way you can send the same message to multiple recipients. I find this facility useful.

I tend to randomly text loads of people when out in the pub otherwise i can usually moderate it tho :P

I normally find the texting part of my bill is higher than the call charges though ! :loopy:

about 150 per month! 5 a day... actually quite a lot when you put it like that! But have friends who send about 500 a month.
Thing is I only send them beause get them, often send double messages and stuff, but when I was on PAYG sent half as many!

No, I'm a forum addict, and that takes two hands, so I have no more digits left for texting now :D

I like texting with my sister. No niceties. Just talking as though we're in the same room and we're continuing a conversation, although we've not spoken properly in weeks!

Originally posted by beckyaa
But have friends who send about 500 a month

Would you consider that excessive ?

I used to have an 02 contract with 600 free texts per month and usually fell just short of that, I have now have Voda contract with 250 free per month. Depends on what kinda month it is. Sometimes I go over, sometimes I dont :help:

My O2 has 500 a month but they can be a combination of SMS and MMS. I try and check nearing the end of the month and use them up by taking pics on my phone and MMS them to my PC!! May as well get my money's worth!!

i send 320 a month which costs a fortune, cos the tariff im on only gives me 120!! so my bill is always massive!
n thats also with another sim card that has 5 free txs on it a day!
so i do have a prob!! i think!:loopy: :help: hehe

[i]Originally posted by Deejay
I used to have an 02 contract with 600 free texts per month and usually fell just short of that, [/B]

You obviously just have more friends than me Deejay! :( cue the violins!

Have been looking into new contract, and found some with 1000 txts per month... That is what I what call severely excessive - over 30 per day?!

I send around 250-300 a month. I dont think thats excessive but its pretty expensive. :(

I dont send any - all this cost - wouldnt it just be cheaper just to ring the person and get that stuff off your chest? ;)

Or maybe just put the phone down and lean across the table and just say it?? :P

Originally posted by Edd
I dont send any - all this cost - wouldnt it just be cheaper just to ring the person and get that stuff off your chest? ;)

Or maybe just put the phone down and lean across the table and just say it?? :P

Somethings are best said by text ;)

Free texts and free calls, pretty much the same thing :hihi:

I probably send about 20-30 a month.

Sometimes less... :P

I get the sneaky suspicion that I'm going to be the ONLY person on the forum who doesn't have a mobile phone. Never needed one and don't want one, why do people seem to think they can't move four paces away from theirs?

Originally posted by WALLBUILDER
why do people seem to think they can't move four paces away from theirs? My sister complains about friends waking her up by texting when they come out of the pub/club. She knows this happens every Friday and Saturday night, so why not set the texts to silent, or switch the phone off?

I get 500 free a month with Orange and last month I exceeded that! normall less though.

I get 500 free, which, along with an additional 200-300, get's used every month.

I have 2 contract phones.. Bills put together normally come to around £120 a month.

:(

Originally posted by WALLBUILDER
I get the sneaky suspicion that I'm going to be the ONLY person on the forum who doesn't have a mobile phone. Never needed one and don't want one, why do people seem to think they can't move four paces away from theirs?

I used to be the same, was totally anti-mobile phone, I even wrote a web page about getting them banned. >>->
http://www.rocknroll.f9.co.uk/science/mobiletelephones.html

But unfortunately I eventually succumed.
Started with just texting, now I ring and send photos and everything.

The country is going to the dogs.

[40-50] texts a month

Originally posted by Osky
I tend to randomly text loads of people when out in the pub


i do this when im drunk! but fortunatly that isnt too often. my mate goes clubing every weekend and about 2-3am its be beep be beep so i turn my fone off now.


I am on vodafone pay as u go but i get 12 free texts a day. well i say that i pay a tenner a month and get 12 texts a day for that. I dont normally use all those texts. Id say normally 5-10 a day so x 30 thats errr 150-300 a month

oh yeh and my mum. she hates mobile fones. well any type of phone really. she refuses to have an answer machine and bt 1571!

Originally posted by WALLBUILDER
I get the sneaky suspicion that I'm going to be the ONLY person on the forum who doesn't have a mobile phone. Never needed one and don't want one, why do people seem to think they can't move four paces away from theirs?

You're not alone! We should start a club! (txt "JOIN" to 82*** :P :P)

Muddycoffee - youre so weak! :hihi: :suspect: Although Im worried that ill buckle eventually too :help: :rolleyes:

Last text I sent was through a web page.....:)

My phone is quite decrepit and I'm surprised it supports texting, but it does.

Have to say that I speak faster than I text, and if I wanted to get text messages I'd have stayed with a pager.

having said that, my agency send me texts when they pay me, and my bank will send me texts about recent transactions, so perhaps I should catch up.

But the main problem is I'm Mr Fumblefingers!

Joe

Approx 50 per month, not too excessive I think but a stark contrast to what I used to send before my missus moved up here. that was getting into the 5 ~ 600 mark.

What annoys me about texting is when I use it to ask a simple question which should warrant a simple answer and I get drawn into a protracted conversation via text. I want to know the answer not write war and peace using only my thumb!!!!!!!

Originally posted by Edd
Muddycoffee - youre so weak! :hihi: :suspect: Although Im worried that ill buckle eventually too It was a woman that made me do it :heyhey: ;)

I get 1500 a month free with orange... only managed to get up to 800 as yet though!

Originally posted by muddycoffee
It was a woman that made me do it :heyhey: ;)

It's true, women make men use texts!

How many men text each other often?!?! :P

i do between 600 and 1000 each month, get 500 free so not that bad. texting easier esp when at work and supposed to be working!

I haven't got a mobile so I don't send any.

when im out clubbin it always gets me! text the world for some reason??

I've just worked it out and it's genuinely frightening.

I'm on Virgin and it's 3p a text to other Virgin mobiles - my gf has a virgin phone and we txt, a lot. I also get 10% airtime back every month (don't know why but I do).

Last month I got £13.78 of airtime, so that means I spent £137.80. At a rough guess, I'd say I spend about £30 on phone calls so I'd say I spent £107.80 on texts. Lets do a bit of maths...

£107.80 = 10780 pence (107.80 * 100)
Given that 1 text = 3 pence
10780/3 = 3593.3

So for the sake of argument (How do you send 0.3 of a text), I sent 3593 texts.

Originally posted by WALLBUILDER
I get the sneaky suspicion that I'm going to be the ONLY person on the forum who doesn't have a mobile phone. Never needed one and don't want one, why do people seem to think they can't move four paces away from theirs?

There's three reasons why I need a mobile phone (or it is very useful)

1. When I'm meeting people in town, most of my mates can't just make a plan and stick to it, they almost always rearrange where they are going at the last minute. (I know if there were no mobiles this problem wouldn't occur, but there are, so I don't really have a lot of choice)

2. Its a good way of communicating when you've chatted someone up in a club or bar.

3. Can be useful in an emergency.

Originally posted by limpetboy


So for the sake of argument (How do you send 0.3 of a text), I sent 3593 texts.

Are you sure?! That's about 120 texts per day!! How do you have time to send that many?

Originally posted by beckyaa
Are you sure?! That's about 120 texts per day!! How do you have time to send that many?

Oh he's sure.. His phone is never away from his side.. Whether it be work, home or the pub :shakes:

Limpet is a true Text-a-Holic :suspect:

Originally posted by beckyaa
Are you sure?! That's about 120 texts per day!! How do you have time to send that many?

Absolutely, I'm really surprised myself to be honest. And deejay is almost right, i don't text in the pub, unless it's to abuse deejay that is :hihi:

Originally posted by limpetboy
Absolutely, I'm really surprised myself to be honest. And deejay is almost right, i don't text in the pub, unless it's to abuse deejay that is :hihi:

Even I might be tempted to get a mobile if it allows me to abuse deej :P :thumbsup: :hihi: :D

Originally posted by Edd
Even I might be tempted to get a mobile if it allows me to abuse deej :P :thumbsup: :hihi: :D

lol, it should be an olympic sport:D

Just figured out what tex messeging is, talking on your cell phones, you said it was expensive, so i assume you still have to pay for local calls there, i can see were that would run into a lot of expence.

Texting a short note is a good way of not getting embroiled in a hour long conversation with some people :suspect: It seems like the most expensive way to communicate a few words, but it can be less intrusive too.

When you are abroad, text is an excellent way of saying hi to your people at home. Only costs 20p or less per text. Much cheaper than a phone call, and brief. And the reply is free to recieve when your out there.

I agree that mobiles are excellent for organising meeting for a drink. When I meet people who have been out for a meal, or to a match etc.. they can never predict how long they will be and often we have moved on to the next place, using text it is easy to catch up.

Down Sides 1
Occasionally a text will get stuck in the system and you recieve it hours later, or even next day.

Down Sides 2
People often misconstrue a text. It is extremely easy to get a short text out of context, and it can read like it means something else.

Down Sides 3
When you are sending one, it is too easy to send to the wrong person. How many people have accidentally sent a lovey dovey one to their ex, or to someone of the wrong sex. Or accidently sent a text to someone who they have fell out with and it has sparked up an unwanted conversation. :o

More like an alcomaniac myself.

"Down Sides 2
People often misconstrue a text. It is extremely easy to get a short text out of context, and it can read like it means something else.

Down Sides 3
When you are sending one, it is too easy to send to the wrong person. How many people have accidentally sent a lovey dovey one to their ex, or to someone of the wrong sex. Or accidently sent a text to someone who they have fell out with and it has sparked up an unwanted conversation"

This is soooooo true, the written form can be taken in so many different ways to what it might have been intended, i sent a txt to the wrong person (with them in it), and it was totally taken the wrong way, not how i intended it at all and a falling out ensued! Thankfully i think its all sorted now....

I get 500 free txts a mth, generally just manage to stay within that, although there have been a few mths lately where ive gone over it by a good 200. My mths only been running 10 days so far and ive already sent around 350, eeek! Gonna have to slow down or my bill's gonna be fat next time round! haha

All my friends use texting but I send only about 20 a month. I prefer to call people but if I have to will send a text.

"He said mobiles had completely destroyed all sense of punctuality among his friends because they relied on the fact that they could get in contact at the last minute."

An amusing article which rings slightly true:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;sessionid=OFLIK502KPOXLQFIQMGCM5WAVCBQU JVC?xml=/news/2004/11/13/nfone13.xml&secureRefresh=true&_requestid=3112

I'm sorry but I think that you'll have to register to be able to read the article

Interesting read, I sometimes go for a few weeks without my mobile and I love it, it's not so hard to organise you life without one. The face to face confrontations bit made me laugh, maybe you will be able to order your food via Text message soon so you don't have to ask the till assistant.

V new Mctxt Sanwich @ Mcdnlds tel ur M8s t order @ home!

Text messages, um..!

Being deaf myself, this is the only means of communication I can have apart from emails so this is very handy indeed for me for communicating with friends and family instantly...

I get 3000 texts free per month (found it on Orange in Nov '04) for only 20 quid per month... Along with a free phone. This is a bargain compared to what I was spending on before!

Have done 1200 texts but generally tend to do 700-800 texts per month...

Originally posted by WALLBUILDER
I get the sneaky suspicion that I'm going to be the ONLY person on the forum who doesn't have a mobile phone. Never needed one and don't want one, why do people seem to think they can't move four paces away from theirs?

No one needs a mobile phone, in the same way they don't need biros.

I was a luddite of the worst kind and only got a mobile phone that I use quite recently. At first I bought a PAYT jobbie with a free nokia, just as insurance against breaking down (we do a lot of miles and can't afford terribly reliable cars) on a dark lonely motorway.

But then I got a 'smart phone' which is basically a computer with a handy phone attached and I was won over.

Like walkmans, no-one needs one, but they can be very very handy in circumstances you haven't yet imagined.

Texting - like email to your pocket is, for me, even more useful than telephonic capabilities.

I send way too many texts. I get 300/month free in my contract but usually go over that.

The problem is when you get into a juicy text conversation which goes on for hours...

[sigh]