Saturday, 11 August 2007

It's time to come clean. I am here to confess my addiction to binge-texting. If you do not know what binge-texting is, then you're either very normal or just don't care. Binge texting is a term I came up with to describe a long series of text messaging someone, often without end for a day or more.

This may become annoying for the other side. But for the binge-texter, it gives him a feeling of satisfaction and an uplift to his pride. However, for some, binge-texting (or sms yg gak berhenti2 sampe yang dismsin stres abis2an in some parts of the world) has become a favored pastime, for it showcases a person's capability in typing hundreds of characters in less than a minute, and his ability to memorise possibly dozens of weird-ass acronyms, such as anw, which stands for anyway in some parts of the digital world, but for a person such as I, it stands for apa nih wanita, which to be honest, doesn't make any goddamn sense.

Binge-texting is made more accessible through the use of (very) easy-to use handphones. These mobile phones are so easy to use, you often see children less than 5 year old using them. Even though most contain chokable parts. A Nokia phone is a favored tool for most binge texters. Especially those really, really old Nokia phones that doesn't come with touchsreens (tajskrin? apa tuh?).

Therefore, binge texters are most often seen with ancient Nokia phones (from the 90s), and most will wear their favorite 90s outerwear. Even when texting from the comfort of their bedrooms.

How to break free from this ugly, ugly habit:

- Throw away your phone. Hundreds of children in Africa needs them. As does a couple of terrorists for mobile detonation purposes. Don't ask.
- If you use a sim card and you recharge it frequently, don't recharge. Ever.
- Destroy your mobile phone charger.
- Cut off the tip of your fingers.
- Switch to an iPhone. I heard it's damn hard to type a message using that thing.
- Find another person to harass. Preferably someone with the guts to say back to you "STOP TEXTING ME YOU BASTARD"

OR, if you happen to be the harassed side, you can just ignore the endless stream of text asking "LAGI NGAPAIN LO?!" or "HARI INI MAU KEMANA"

In conclusion, some people use binge texting as an excuse for compulsion to press something with their fingers every few minutes (usually seen in Counterstrike veterans, who can't get enough WASD dose anymore), or you know, people who happen to like another person for some apparent bullshit reason.. they binge-text a lot. In that case, just ignore them. They'll eventually find someone else to harass.

Any question?

1 comment:

grace gunawan said...

wow.. i wonder what will happen if the binge texter of the world unite in a convention of binge texting?