Betty by Gary Delainey and Gerry Rasmussen for March 11, 2020

Ha, nobody his age texts.

It’s all proprietary messenger formats.

I prefer texts too, since email has become the new “junk mail”. But lately, I’m getting a lot of junk texts too. Lots of scam-related links. >sigh<

And this is the problem with business communication today, especially on technical topics. Try to explain anything the least bit complex and nobody reads it because it’s more than 280 characters.

It’s harder to retrieve old texts and separate them into folders than it is with emails.

When dealing with companies, email gives you a trail,

I can type an email much faster than a text.

I’ve been an all-fingers touch typist since the days of manual typewriters. Meanwhile, my fingers — and especially my thumbs — are wide, and hitting the right “keys” on my phone is error-prone, even when I do it slowly.

I’m with you, Gammaguy. I’m so very glad I took typing as an elective and became a touch-typist. (Though, unfortunately, not always a completely accurate “touch-typist”.)

Seriously!!

After Neil Postman’s “Amusing Ourselves to Death”, we will now have “Texting Ourselves to Death”.

I have no problem with touch typing. I use voice with the Text and clean it up afterwards.