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Texting baby-steps
By Nancy | March 11, 2008
Andy and a circle of his friends suddenly want to do nothing but e-mail each other. It’s like they have a developmental urge to text, but have no cell phones. (They’ve come close to IM-ing, but it seems that whenever one friend figures out how to do it, the other forgets…so, frustrated with each other, they say, “Oh, let’s just email.”) A typical email dialogue goes like this:
Andy: That’s so funny.
Friend: What?
Andy: What you said before.
Friend: Yeah.
Andy: Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
Keep in mind that, done with email, this meaningful exchange takes about 15 minutes to complete. Perplexing.