Newsflash: text messaging is NOT new. Lately, there has been an explosion of text messaging in advertisements making it seem like text messaging is this crazy new fangled method of communication. Have these businesses been living in a hole for almost ten years?
If you are old, Amish, or have been hiding out in a cave and are unfamiliar with text messaging, pick up a copy of this waste of paper. You've got opposable thumbs, so you might as well use them more often.
Take a few seconds to endure this Cingular commercial. I guess I didn't get the memo that it's the new thing to only speak the first letter of each word to communicate. I'm cool with abbreviations and some acronyms, but this is just an absurdly stupid attempt at being funny. Also, why does a 10 year-old have unsupervised cell phone access?
As I am typing this post there is a Chevy Aveo commercial on the radio talking in an exaggerated form of instant messaging and text messaging. Definitely not amusing. No even halfway normal human talks anything like this. The dialog is similar to that of the Cingular commercial, but even worse because there aren't any subtitles. I have no idea what information I was being told. That's advertising money well spent.
TV shows are trying to get in on the texting action by having contest entries and votes submitted via text message. Does anyone else feel like every show now has some sort of text message gimmick? I'm sure the cell phone service providers love it since lots of plans do not include unlimited text messaging or even text messaging at all. I'm not about to waste one of my precious 300 monthly text messages to vote for the Viewer's Choice VMA or to vote for which suitcase I think has money in it for Deal or No Deal's Lucky Case Game. Sure, texting would be convenient...if I cared enough to vote for any of that junk.
Just by texting a specific message to a certain number, you can get ringtones, images, jokes, horoscopes, dating services, traffic updates, sports scores, bank statements etc. Most of these commercials are highly annoying due to some joyous piece of clip-art bee bopping around on the screen. I bet those jokes are stellar. Since more and more companies have finally realized the popularity of text messaging, you can obtain and submit all kinds of things through text messaging. I got this job by sending my resume via text message.
For a few dollars at Busch Stadium here in St. Louis, you can send a short text message to a screen that is barely noticeable amid the collage of other advertisements. I'm actually surprised this wasn't created a long time ago. I could do without this interactive feature because, quite frankly, I do not care who loves who, who is celebrating a birthday, or who is sending a fake marriage proposal. Maybe I'd feel differently if people were writing things that would entertain the entire stadium. At the last game I went to, I would've like to have texted "Hey drunk man with a rattail in section 162, shut up and sit down". Maybe my opinion is biased, but I think people would enjoy that more than "Sam, I Luv U". Way to make fans look at worthless clutter just to make some extra money.
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