hello hello, is anyone home?

I just lost my phone right before the retreat and my parents are telling me to bring another phone. Why? So that I can update them with what am I doing in the retreat house or just simply talk to them. Then I said, I won’t bring it because I won’t use it. Then it just came to me why cellular phone is so important is because we use it as a medium of communication.

Surely, texting has been one of the most used features in a cell phone. But what is it all about? Is it worth the cost? Many people would say yes. Others would say no. But what if we evaluate the situation here?

Here are the pros and cons of texting. One of the advantages of texting is that, first of all, it is cheap. Actually, it is far cheaper than calling, because one minute of a call is less than that of 256 character text. Another reason why texting is so prominent these days, it is because we are now living in a very small world with a bigger population. We need things that can perform tasks that large things perform. Since cellular phones used for texting are very handy, it became a popular choice to use cell phones. Also, the messages in texting can be saved; therefore, if that message is important to you, one can just save it right away. One more interesting feature of texting is that it can be programmed. Timed messages are commonly used in greeting people in the middle of the night. Another interesting feature of texting is that it is silent. Texting doesn’t require much of a noise; therefore, it doesn’t attract too much attention. So it is used in various ways from cheating tests to silent I love you’s to even having an inside joke.

But what are the cons of texting? First thing is that your fingers will start to disintegrate because of your frequent texting. They always say, it is easier said than done. That is true. It is easier to say hello rather than typing the whole word H-E-L-L-O. Therefore, it is really bad for an emergency. Texting, unlike calling, can depict emotion such as sense of emergency and it is slower to transmit the message. One of the most annoying things about texting is that it can’t be used when everybody else is texting. Every Christmas, it is really hard to text a message due to the traffic caused by the abuse usage of the texting feature. Everyone is sending each other Christmas greetings and messages at the same time that networks are having a hard time send them all at once. Another feature that is used by fixers is the anonymity of texting. Even though the SIM has its own number, anyone can use it given the access to the SIM.