While texting – communicating with text messaging, is great, the act of texting itself (typing) I hate – texting is a pain in the thumb. T9 and similar technologies never worked
to my satisfaction… This is why I rather use (and own) handsets with a keyboard – today I own a Treo 650 and a BlackBerry 7280.
The Times Online published some interesting news – “A team of researchers in Dublin has coined the phrase Dystextia to alert phone-users who notice a slowdown in their text-typing speed to be aware of potential neurological problems.”
Oh boy… do I have Dystextia? Or am I simply terrible at the error prone, time-consuming act of texting using triple overloaded keystrokes?
I know, “error prone, time-consuming” is a relative thing – my daughter is proof of that – her texting is extremely fast and accurate… And hard she laughs at my inability to master texting – oh well. It is a generation thing – the generation who started this messaging (technology) trend vs. the generation using the technologies, taking messaging to new levels…
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[via textually.org]