Cellular Phone Text Messaging – Tales Of A Cell Phone Text Message Convert
I admit it. At first, I didnt understand why in the world people were so excited about cellular phone text messaging. I mean, why not just make a normal voice call? It just seemed to be so much easier. However, I decided to give texting a try and spent a month sending text messages to friends and family members. Here is what I discovered.
At first, it took me forever to write a simple text message on my cell phone. Something that wouldve taken me 5 seconds to relay over the phone, ended up taking me 10 minutes to type out on my phone. It was at this point that I nearly hung up the towel, but I decided to stick it out for a while longer.
All of that changed once I discovered abbreviations. When text messaging, most pros use abbreviations for popular phrases or sayings. For example:
? = I have a question
2G2BT = Too good to be true
AFAIK = As far as I know
CYA = See you
This was like a serious breath of fresh air for me. I started churning out text messages in seconds, instead of several minutes, it was like a giant light bulb instantly went...