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How I went textless!

June 8th, 2010

I am textless! Most of the younger generation, and even some older ones are texting like mad. Not me. As you probably know by now I have an Iphone.  Between the wife and I, we use a free app called WhatsApp.  It’s more of an instant messenger app than a texting app, but it works well for us.  It has push notification so you get your messages popping up on the screen just like you would a text.  AT&T has a plan for $5 that has 200 texts.  I *may* use 15 a month.  They charge $.20 per, so that is $3 a month if I get them.

Now, you may call me a tightwad, but I don’t really care to do a lot of texting, so I called AT&T and asked them to shut off texing on my phone.  It is not off on my wife phone, but she rarely get’s texts either.  It was a pretty easy process, and quick for them to do.  They told me that people who do try to text me will get a message back telling them I do not receive texts anymore.

Just call me Scrooge…