Text Messaging for sissies or not?
Over the past few weeks, I have received a bunch of text messages from friends and most recently from my wife (see below).  BTW, I’ll be home soon love.
 
I have received more text messages this past month than in the whole year prior. What’s going on here? Is this technology starting to penetrate my demographic – 30ish, professional, married w/ kids?
I had lunch with my friend Danny last week and he assured me that “everyone in his demographic is doing itâ€. That would be 20ish guys and girls in the cool cat crowd. I guess texting is entrenched in this hip crowd, but the uptake has been slow for us old-schoolers.  Is this finally starting to change, or is the behavior I am seeing just an anomaly?
Having a Windows Mobile device w/ web browsing, email, plenty of apps, and of course RSS via NewsGator Mobile, I had pretty much dismissed texting as a wimpy alternative… kinda like riding a Huffy when you have chance to ride a BMC rig (bad bike vs. great bike for you non-cyclists).  But I am starting to see the utility.
Sometimes simple and functional is not such a bad thing. And when it comes to mobile, one thing is for sure… every phone (and there are lots of them) can handle text messages. I will definitely be thinking about how this can play nicely with NewsGator Mobile. Â
[Andrew Hyde helped me get rolling with Word Press today in about an hour - thanks man. Andrew tipped me off to a cool plugin for overlaying images on the current page, Lightbox. I can’t get it to work… will try again later.  BTW, Andrew’s girlfrend was busy drinking beers waiting for him to join the fun, and here he was drinking coffee with me on a Friday evening. What a guy.]