Text messages
Thursday, 24 of May , 2007 @ 10:26 am
A high school acquaintance recently got a Globe number and availed of that Unlimitxt thing (something I’ve never tried myself since I have the post-paid plan). Ever since, she has been spamming my inbox with insensitive forwarded text messages every goddamn day. No, scratch that. Make it every 6 hours. What the hell. I wouldn’t mind this much if it wasn’t so obvious that she was forwarding the same goddamn message to every Globe number in her phonebook. I don’t even bother reading them, I delete them right away.
Take note, she is an acquaintance (who actually wasn’t very nice to me anyway), not a friend. I only appreciate forwarded text quotes when they are from friends, who usually send me quotes that are meaningful to whatever’s happening to me at the moment. But otherwise, I hate forwarded text quotes because they’re exactly that - forwarded, thoughtless and insensitive. I am sure you can tell when someone is just mindlessly forwarding you a quote, or when they picked it out especially for you. And the first indicator of that is if that someone really knows you well, who will only send you quotes he or she thinks might help you.
Honestly, I am very sentimental with my text messages. My cellphone is so filled up with text messages that when my inbox runs out of space, it pains me to delete any of my saved messages. Once my phone memory cannot accommodate them, I write them down. And a good 90% of them are real messages that have touched me, or made me laugh, or made me feel loved, because I know those were sent only for me.
In conclusion, quotes are tolerable, just don’t send one every fucking day. Besides, if you want to touch someone’s heart via text, send them a virtual hug or kiss, or ask them how their day was, or tell them that their favorite artist is on TV, or tell them about something you saw today that reminded you of them… DON’T USE FORWARDED QUOTES, DAMN IT. Do that only when you think it applies to your friend. Otherwise, DON’T TEXT ANYTHING THAT WILL MEAN NOTHING to the recipient.
Oh, and make sure you’re in an actual, mutual friendship.
Category: Rants
Comment by Tina
Made Thursday, 24 of May , 2007 at 10:47 am
Comment by Jeric
Made Thursday, 24 of May , 2007 at 12:25 pm
Good thing you’re only receiving “spam quotes” because I also receive text messages which aren’t really for me but still they send it to their entire phonebook for example, ” @Friend1, see you tomorrow. @Friend2 good night! @Friend3 miss you” and the list goes on. See, there isn’t a single message for me but still I received that text message. That’s how people clog these TelCos offering unlimited texting.
Comment by ba
Made Thursday, 24 of May , 2007 at 1:00 pm
What I hate more are the group messages (aka “GMs”) that don’t concern you at all! Mas madalas sa YM, pero nangyayari na rin sa text. Although bumawas ever since Unlimitxt became more expensive.
Comment by Elizabeth
Made Thursday, 24 of May , 2007 at 7:00 pm
That sucks with the spamming! I would hate that so much! I am not allowed to text message so my friends dont text message. That would be so annoying…
Comment by Lissi
Made Friday, 25 of May , 2007 at 5:08 am
As if we don’t get enough spamming in our emails or even regular mail (junk mail) now we have to get them in our phones? People who forward stupid things for no possible purpose or reason need to be shot =)
Comment by nightfox
Made Friday, 25 of May , 2007 at 7:06 am
hehe.. still remember the ” series” ?
(where name is a female name)
nakalimutan ko na e, but it was somewhat popular last year..
Comment by Maris
Made Friday, 25 of May , 2007 at 7:29 am
Exactly. Forwarded messages are too impersonal and reading them is just too inconvenient to read through. I delete these kinds of messages too. For my part, thank God for screened messages.
Personal messages are a dime a dozen these days.
Marielle is a 20-year-old Psychology student at the 
I had a high school classmate who I rarely talked to (except when he asks me for the assignment) and he got my Sun number back in college and he kept on doing that — texting me a quote every day. Wait, make that around 10 quotes a day. I could leave my phone and come back and see ten or so messages, which are all from him. GAAAAH. I did not read any, and what’s freaky was one night, I woke up at the dorm and saw that he was calling me. In the middle of the night. WTH.
I rarely send quotes anymore, except for people I am close to. And like you, I write my text messages down. But forwarding quotes gets tiring, and it’s sayang sa free messages.
Haha. I’d rather ask them how they are than forward a quote that he/she probably received before.
MARIELLI: I think all that spamming started with that damned Sun. Remember that time in recent history when all barkadas and especially couples had Sun SIM cards?
ugggh.