I've Never Texted or Tweeted...Am I Alone?

SeaBreeze

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Never done it, and don't really care to. I don't do FB or Twitter, and when I need to, I leave a voicemail. How about you? Any seniors here who have never texted anyone or sent a Tweet??
 

I'm with you on this Sea. I've never done it and I expect I never will. Think it's mostly for kids and the hard of hearing.
 

No use for Twitter or for Facebook, for that matter.

Texting is useful for when you just have something short to convey, and don't want/can't have a protracted voice conversation. With texting you can tell you son or daughter "I love you" and attach a picture of your beloved pet. I have way too many pictures of dogs and cats on my cell phone; not too many of the kids...:cool:
 
I kind of like it since I'm not much of a phone person to begin with. Mostly, I can just send a text saying "NO" when I don't want or have time to do what they want, no awkward moments. :D
 
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Ha, ha, ha, I can't lie, it has contributed to my poor language skills, I gained a new form of speak sometimes not even thinking about. But who doesn't use LOL ever so often. brb. 2 flly discls thou, I dnt txt oftn
 
Falcon said:
I'm with you on this Sea. I've never done it and I expect I never will. Think it's mostly for kids and the hard of hearing.
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Wow ! I guess I am still a kid (albeit a hard-of-hearing one).
I do text, although I much prefer to do it on my iPad than on the phone. That tiny little keyboard is just frustrating for my fingers !
But I have the iMesssage option on the iPad, so I can easily write on there and send and receive texts that way. My son, Michael, who lives out in Washington State, loves to text; so I end up texting with him, because that is how he communicates with me.
As far as Twitter, I have an account, but don't really use it. I belong to a program called BzzAgent, and they sent you products to test out. They like you to try the product and then tweet about it; so the Twitter account comes in handy for that.
FaceBook, I totally love !
I use that to keep in contact wih all of my friends and family; and see what they are up to.

My kids have dragged me into the computer age, like it or not; but I am getting pretty well adapted.
Ina, hate to tell you this, but you are in training for texting when we IM each other on the iPad.
Behold your future, Girl...
 
No I don't tweet, I absoilutely don't see any benefits to tweeting...text, yes for all the same reasons as #tnthomas said above. I'm definitely not a serial texter but I do text when I just want to have a quick convo with no protracted phone call.

I don't do FB, I have an account but I only use it to watch what the family are doing, I rarely ever post on there.
 
I text, a lot , but don't tweet, at all.
texting enables me to keep in touch with family/friends, without interrupting them, at work or at home.
easier and quicker than a phone call...IMO
 
Never texted or tweeted here too, although the wife and I do have a lot of electric goodies. I am heavy into facebook and online surveys but dislike the new phones with all the stuff on them.

We just got Fit Bits this year. Monitors sleep habits, walking distance, calories burned and other things. It's worn on wrist, like a bracelet. Google Fit Bit if curious.
 
Have never done Facebook, but Twitter is one of my favorite sites. I enjoy the company there, and tweet often. I follow so many interesting people.

And I'm into texting now, because my kids have drawn me in. I had to go and buy a new LG phone that made texting easier on the old fingers ... lol
 
My wife would text me when I worked if she needed some information or for me to stop and pick something up on my way home. Not a good idea for a police officer to be on the phone and using it for personal calls. Duty comes first.
 
Hubby just left me a voice mail if I was at work, and I checked for them on breaks when I expected something.
 
We just advanced one more step away from the old dial telephones. With the new iOS 8 operatiing system in the iPhones and iPads; we can now answer the phone right from the iPad.
I haven't tried it yet; but I was trying to figure out why my iPad "rang" everytime my phone rang. It just started doing that; so I figured it must have something to do with the new operating system. I just didn't know how it worked.

Another thing that was bothering me was that I kept gettng alert notices on my Facetime app on the ipad, and I hadn't been using Facetime; so I didn't know where those were coming from or how to get rid of them.
So, (as usual) I called my daughter, Robin the Guruette, and asked her what was going on and what to do about it.
She explained to me how to delete the unwanted alerts from Facetime, and told me that I can use the ipad when the phone rings now.
But-----so far, I just haven't been brave enough to try it .....maybe next time ?
 
I don't tweet nor do I do Facebook. I prefer a real voice over the phone and will get a new computor soon with a built in webcam for skype.
 
We are on Facebook because some of my high school classmates, wife's sister and a couple of bands we like are on there. As far as Twitter goes, nope, no way. I think Twitter is mainly for the younger generation. Texting? Nope, don't do that either. Sometimes, do reply to an e-mail on our iPhone.
 
ClassicRockr said:
We are on Facebook because some of my high school classmates, wife's sister and a couple of bands we like are on there. As far as Twitter goes, nope, no way. I think Twitter is mainly for the younger generation. Texting? Nope, don't do that either. Sometimes, do reply to an e-mail on our iPhone.
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Twitter is not mainly for the younger generation. Politicians in the US and UK have been seen during meetings, hearings, etc. tweeting. I get tweets from many sources which give me info I want - weather, traffic, ferries being cancelled, landslides, entertainment, etc. I only check it about once a day though.
 
On Facebook my friends range in age from my 15 year old niece to my brother's 83 year old mother in law. I have friends/family in US, Australia, UK, Uganda, Netherlands that I keep up with through FB. I have friends I met through a boomer forum that went out of business, American expats, etc etc etc.
 

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