Can I marry my iPhone? Part I: Text it

I have a kick ass phone. The iPhone. It's the greatest companion a person could ever have. Prior to having my beautiful babyjesus of a "phone", I was with Sprint. I was always pretty satisfied, until you babe ;). Sprint was prevalent in Lubbock, had good service out in the the surrounding areas, and everyone had it. (less Mom on your ass about minutes. deal.) Sprint always had pretty sweet phones too, and I always made sure to stay on top of my cell-game. Remember the Nokia with Snake, do you even have to ask how many sweet covers I had?

The #1 thing I do on my phone is communicate with others through text. I have always done a lot of texting, but never any more than I have actually talked on the phone. Remember having to hit the "7" three times to get to "r"? That was terrible. I was pretty bad ass at it, but the keyboard brought me to a whole new realm. Once those keyboards came out, it was over! My lightning thumbs crank out approximately 60 WPM. For the past few years I was in a relationship with the Palm Treo. GREAT keyboard. *Side note; If you still have less than 26 buttons on your phone, I hope you are more than 62 years old.

Technological advances in this new form of communication exchange we like to call "texting" or "SMS" (Short Message Service) have come a long way! One of my faves is the "conversation" feature. This is when phones create a sort of "chat" between you and each of the people you are texting. Much cooler than the old-shool form of text logging.

In all my years of super sonic texting, I have never really been too big on the "cliche" texting. This is texting that they make fun of on phone commercials, where the daughter is like, "GFT on the BFF with a TTYN". I don't really do that. My mom tried so hard to "cliche" text when my sister first showed her the "texting ropes", it was awful. I will typically use the letter "u" instead of "you", and a few others but nothing like "G2G2MBFHSYL".**Side note; I have used WAY too many quotation marks today.

Now with my job, I text quite a bit. Both of my bosses stay very busy, and texting is the easiest way to get to them if they are in a meeting, or on a conference call. I am usually sending them quick questions or letting them know about important issues, so I like to try and sound professional. Lately, I have been looking back on "conversations" and noticing that some of the things that I send in texts are absolute jibberish. Ughhhh! What a ruhtard I must sound like! This maddening occurrence is what has boiled my blood enough to blog 1,000 words on this topic today, PREDICTIVE TEXTING.

I like it SOMETIMES, but honestly think I could live without it. The ability to lean on your phone for catching grammatical errors is just another way the human population is growing lazier. Don't get me wrong... I LOVE LAZINESS AND ANY ATTEMPT TO MAKE THINGS EASIER... I'm just saying that by trusting your phone to catch your mistakes, you're paying less attention to what you are sending in your messages. And once it's sent, it's sent. "Heyyy Stranger" has transformed into "Getty Stranger" on me. Charming, right? My "me" turns into "mr" 9 out of 10 times, and it drives me Bat Shit CRAZY!

The whole incident that caused me to write this today was the case of the "Tag-Along" letter "g". On most words that end in "ing" predictive texting will prompt you for the full word before you hit the "n". Geez, again with the quotation marks. Today I was typing something about driving, asking, and jammin. My phone kept attaching the "g" onto jammin, when I clearly didn't want it! Wouldn't it sound super dorky if I said I was jamminG some music rather than jammin'. Ha! Weird thought that crossed my brain, and led me to creating this iPhone blog series. Weird. I Love it.