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It helps to think before hitting Send.
God, I hate those people who send off half a text, then a correction, then the other half, all within 5 seconds.
It was pretty bad back then when you would get charged for receiving all of those too.
Many services still have that warning too, so I can only assume there are still people getting charged per text received, including junk.
Receiving... texts? How can you even be charged for that when you can't affect what you receive?
Crazy, right? But the technology was brand new, and they got to make up the rules for a while.
Its legal and there was an effective oligopoly at the time
Due to RF constraints, there always will only be like 3 or 4 MNOs.
Hell, in ideal situation, I think a single carrier could be far better. Every carrier is going to have some unused bandwidth, and all of it could be added up.
Possibly we'd be doing quite well even with sub-1GHz. Let's say on 4G instead of one 10MHz channel in 800MHz, you'd do 2x20MHz for a total of 40MHz. Now, of course, everyone would be using that, but you'd have far less wasted bandwidth, because anyone would be able to use it too.
Unfortunately, that could just end up with the side effect of much larger websites. Same as with increased storage sizes and computation power the efficiency of programs just went down.
That was part of the plan. They could sell your number to advertisers, then charge you for receiving ads from them! Double the profit with zero investment!
Fuck yea freedom isn’t free 🇺🇸
I treat
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Not to think before I comment.
I love your username
Hah, it does seem like some people use their chats as drafts for their thoughts.
One concise message per issue is best. Separate messages are ok when starting a new topic.
Sorry, I don't remember in which places enter adds newline or just sends the message.
lol true
after i get a text from her i wait a couple minutes in case there are any more en route lol
That's a different style of communicating. Think of it as something closer to a conversation, where you generally don't take long pauses
But we aren't calling, we are texting. And text has the ability to delete and change mistakes. So make use of it.
I mean, sure, but I'm also not gonna be spending 5 minutes composing a mega-message, and I don't expect the other person to do so either
I don't think he was talking about spending 5 minutes on a message, just that it's not actually going to take you much longer to send what you want to say in a single message rather than 3 separate messages with one of them being a correction. So it wouldn't make much of a difference to the sender, but it's much nicer for the receiver.
To be fair, I might be thinking of something else than you
that's quite possible, yes
my mom does that and it's so annoying
does that happen to yoi?
you?*