So here’s my first post about the iPhone.  There’s a lot I could write about this little bundle of joy, but this time I’ll just focus on something that has really knocked my socks off in an unexpected way.  I always thought that text messaging was kind of stupid.  Why would anyone want to use it?  It always used to take me so much work to write a text message on my old phones that I hardly used it.  Enter the iPhone….

The iPhone makes text messaging really, really, really easy. And it looks great too.  Put those two things together and you’ll find yourself sending a text message instead of calling more often than you’d think.  Text Messaging means different things to different people, but here’s why it matters to me.

1. I can’t always talk but I still need to reach you.
   I could be at a movie, in a meeting, in Church, or in some otherwise quiet setting where talking is not appropriate.  If it’s not something I absolutely need to talk to you about right at that moment, a text message is a great alternative.
2. It goes straight to your phone.  I could just send an email, but I don’t know if your phone even has email.  And if it does, you might not check it.  With a text message, the message goes straight to the phone, and the next time you pick it up to use it, I know you’ll see the message.
3. It’s saved as a conversation.  The iPhone displays the text messages between you and someone else like a conversation.  Like any long list of things on the iPhone, this list can be scrolled.  Until you clear this list, it will keep every text message from that person in this view.  Need to remember what someone sent to you last week.  No need to look through all your text messages because all the texts from that person are kept together.  I can’t emphasize enough how awesome that is if you can’t stand looking through long lists of unrelated things to find just one thing.

Peace Factor: Convenient

The way that the iPhone presents text messaging can affect your mood because it’s just so fun.  I get a little smile every time I use it because it’s like a cool little toy that you just really get a kick out of.  It has provided me and my wife a way to stay in touch when we’re not around our computers, and when we can’t call each other.  For someone who likes to know that someone is getting the message I’m sending, this amounts to a big deal.  File this one under convenient…

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