I am not a Luddite, and I think texting is just great, but the whole texting "Merry Christmas" thing always bugs me. At least for me, I'm sitting sharing Christmas with my family, and I keep getting all these texts, which I then feel I need to reply to, lest I offend the sender. Most of all I think it's the fact that people spam their entire phone book, it's not even a personal message that's interrupting me. It's like the phone equivalent of forwarding chain letters, at a time when a lot of people are hopefully getting some rare real-life time with their loved ones.
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I am not a Luddite, and I think texting is just great, but the whole texting "Merry Christmas" thing always bugs me. At least for me, I'm sitting sharing Christmas with my family, and I keep getting all these texts, which I then feel I need to reply to, lest I offend the sender. Most of all I think it's the fact that people spam their entire phone book, it's not even a personal message that's interrupting me. It's like the phone equivalent of forwarding chain letters, at a time when a lot of people are hopefully getting some rare real-life time with their loved ones.