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In computer news this week //2008 Text messaging takes over the
world, but what’s the difference between it and email
? And is it only for cell phone users ? There are
twice as many cell phones than computers in the world today, and one of the major
things done on cell phones is text messaging. There’s
an irony in here somewhere .... cell phones
were invented to let people talk to each other from anywhere, but now cell
phone users use their cell phones like computer users use their email –
to send short text messages to another person – but not talk to them. Computer
users have already found the benefits of using email – you can say
exactly what you want to say precisely – and send it – without
having to talk to the other person. Cell
phone users seem to have only discovered this anonymous communication method. There’s
actually 3 types of text messages:
Surprisingly
the low-end Tracfone Cellphone I purchased recently with a 120 air minutes
card for $ 55 has the capability of sending all
3 types of messages to another cell phone. But an
interesting feature I found while using it is that a cell phone can send a
text message to a computer, and vice versa, and I’ve found that the
majority of both cell phone users and computer users don’t know this. And
not all cell phone companies support this feature. Probably
the simpler of the 2 is to send a text message from your cell phone to a pc
user, using their email address.
You just create a text message and send it to your friends email address,
and they will receive it and see that it’s from your cell phone. The question
on the other side of this communication link is how do you find out what your
cell phone’s email address is ? Although there
are many websites that will help you answer this question, I just sent myself
a text message from my cell phone to my email address – received it in
Outlook – and then I just right clicked on the message using the
message options menu to see what my cell phone email address was. Then I
moved this email to my contact folder so I can easily send back to my cell
phone.
Aren’t
we humans strange creatures ? We create
personal computers for communications but communicate silently with people
via email, and we create cell phones to be able to talk to people anywhere,
but communicate silently with text messaging. |
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