Comments on: Love Texts

Love Texts

JPowers — Sun, 24 Jul 2005 15:21:52 -0800

Forget love letters, it's love texts that are all the rage now! "I turned off the phone, dumbfounded. How had we managed to speed through all the stages of an actual relationship almost solely via text message? I'd gone from butterflies to doubt to anger at his name on the screen, before we even knew each other. That was it, I decided: no more text-message flirtations for me. From now on I'd stick to more old-fashioned ways of getting to know a guy. Like e-mail."

By: swerdloff

swerdloff — Sun, 24 Jul 2005 15:31:29 -0800

That guy seemed pretty creepy. He didn't even know her, and was all up in her stuff. How do people get so clingy without even getting to know each other?

By: Saucy Intruder

Saucy Intruder — Sun, 24 Jul 2005 15:42:18 -0800

Im writing bout u in teh nytimes ;-)

By: delmoi

delmoi — Sun, 24 Jul 2005 15:50:43 -0800

"Modern Love" sucks again.

By: grouse

grouse — Sun, 24 Jul 2005 16:16:57 -0800

lol saucy y do ppl write like this? doesnt predictive txt make real english faster? lol

By: Edible Energy

Edible Energy — Sun, 24 Jul 2005 16:23:54 -0800

böring

By: ThePinkSuperhero

ThePinkSuperhero — Sun, 24 Jul 2005 16:27:07 -0800

I second what delmoi said. Could we get one Modern Love article that didn't sound like it was written by a 13 year old girl? "Like, oh my gosh, this creepy guy texted me, lol! Text messaging is for losers!" Gimme a break.

By: piratebowling

piratebowling — Sun, 24 Jul 2005 16:30:22 -0800

I'm slightly bitter that I'm pretty sure I will never get a real, paper love letter ever again. I'll just have spelling error and internet abbrevation riddled IM logs, emails and text messages.

By: cyphill

cyphill — Sun, 24 Jul 2005 16:49:04 -0800

I once sent a girl a "I like you letter" and a mixtape, I later heard from her friends that she was wierded out by anyone that would take so much time to write a letter, but that she really liked the cd (story of my life).

By: MaxVonCretin

MaxVonCretin — Sun, 24 Jul 2005 17:06:28 -0800

All in favor of a moratorium on the weekly posting of dreck from the Sunday NY Times Style Section?

By: vagus

vagus — Sun, 24 Jul 2005 17:09:40 -0800

damn its like every first date i've ever been on...

By: Edible Energy

Edible Energy — Sun, 24 Jul 2005 19:17:01 -0800

Max: Aye!

By: alms

alms — Sun, 24 Jul 2005 19:19:54 -0800

I enjoyed this post.

By: uncanny hengeman

uncanny hengeman — Sun, 24 Jul 2005 19:25:35 -0800

"Will do where will we meet? will be a little while still though sexy! You have any ideas? want you standing out in the rain with nothing on" -Shane Warne. Australia's greatest, and clearly the most romantic, love texter.

By: nightchrome

nightchrome — Sun, 24 Jul 2005 19:34:17 -0800

Jeez, do people not know how to interact with one another anymore? I can't believe people have relationships like this.

By: psmealey

psmealey — Sun, 24 Jul 2005 20:15:36 -0800

I'd be okay with it if the NY Times sold the Style Section to New York Magazine. I really would.

By: VulcanMike

VulcanMike — Sun, 24 Jul 2005 20:34:50 -0800

Okay, everyone. Stop. Open your mobile phones and figure out if it has T9 predictive. It does? Good. You don't know how to use it? Sit down for 15 minutes or so and learn -- it's easy to master. Once that's done, it will be infinitely easier to type "you" than "u" and "are" instead of "r." Once you're texting in full sentences, even if you are a spooky-ass stalker, you'll at least sound literate. Hell, in proper english, this fellow might have actually sounded charming. Same goes for you, Miss Barron. And MaxVonCretin: Yes.

By: state fxn

state fxn — Sun, 24 Jul 2005 20:59:42 -0800

I've always hated text messaging because I generally like spelling out things. However, please correct me if I am wrong, but don't abbreviations such as "u" and "r" save money since some phone services charge by the amount of space/memory a message takes up? I'm with alms on this one. It might not be "best of the web," but I generally enjoy learning about such things to feel better about myself...oops, did I say that out loud?

By: madman

madman — Sun, 24 Jul 2005 23:52:12 -0800

However, please correct me if I am wrong, but don't abbreviations such as "u" and "r" save money since some phone services charge by the amount of space/memory a message takes up Not in this part of the world at least. With our GSM providers, each SMS can be up to 160 characters long, and it costs the same whether it's 1 character or 160 characters. But I hate SMS-speak. Absolutely, passionately, hate it. On my blog, I have a comment policy that any comment with SMS lingo will be deleted irrespective of content.

By: sourbrew

sourbrew — Mon, 25 Jul 2005 00:15:57 -0800

So what happens when she finds out about aim and the ability to text message at high speed... or worse yet, her potential hook up gets her to direct connect for photos and then sends her a picture of her location via satellite, with an arrow saying wish i was here...... technology changes things...... OOOOOHHHHHHH

By: grouse

grouse — Mon, 25 Jul 2005 04:24:29 -0800

On my blog, I have a comment policy that any comment with SMS lingo will be deleted irrespective of content. That's a good policy.

By: JanetLand

JanetLand — Mon, 25 Jul 2005 07:07:27 -0800

Technology helps us identify the weirdos faster. I think we should be grateful.

By: kanewai

kanewai — Mon, 25 Jul 2005 16:51:08 -0800

I liked the post. It's cute and inoccuous, but I'm fin with that. MeFi would be horribly dry if it was nothing but serious posts. I hate SMS speak with a passion, and don't think I've ever sent a text-message in my life. And T9 Mode was completely incomprehensible to me - I always thought it was some type of computer code that wasn't meant for casual users [like the ASCII characters] . [sidenote to VulcanMike - for a lot of us it was not intuitive at all]. OK, so I googled T9, found an easy little tutorial, & now it makes complete sense. Shoots, I might even be able to text now, just like the kids do.

By: VulcanMike

VulcanMike — Mon, 25 Jul 2005 19:49:37 -0800

Told you so!