Texting on cellphone, pdas (personal digital assist.)

[shootingstar]

I'm almost as un-techno as Shootingstar. I have a cell phone, with a nice At&T contract because my husband got an I Phone in August. He drives me crazy with it... checking his email and just "having to" find something on the web when he doesn't need to. Last weekend I had to yell at him to put it away when we were at cycling friend's house for dinner. We don't usually exchange heated words, but I was mad!
My cell phone is never on, unless I have to make a call when I am out of the house, which is maybe once a month? I don't know how to use any of the functions on the phone. In fact, I had just figured out my last phone, when I had to give it up. Needless to say, I don't text. I really don't feel the need to talk to people that often! I will call or email if I need to.

I guess I run a personal life that doesn't want to be constantly on call/available to other people. There have been uh..less than 6 times per year where my partner and I thought it would have been nice for both to have cell phones for a meet-up situation, non-emergency.

And my friendship circles never demands constant contact...I probably end up destroying good long friendships if it changed to pestering one another about trivial details in real time.

No I'm not techno-retrograde. Just not interested in jumping in on the on-call mode of 21st century life in my personal life. But I am curious what motivates people to text when the technology doesn't strike me as liberating as sitting down in front of a laptop....I did ask another employee who works in our dept. She's around 25 yrs...and doesn't text but uses her cell frequently. She gets complaints from family who wonder why she doesn't answer her phone. And it's non-emergency stuff.

When we are on vacation, he does like taking laptop along and ensuring hotel has Internet access. And when I get around to it I check email, stay on forums, like here. Non urgent stuff.