Something I Just Don't Get

Recently I've heard a lot about text messaging, usually about how kids often run up their cell phone bills (which have to be paid by their parents) by text messaging their friends constantly.

I don't get it. Typing out messages on a teensy phone pad, often having to hit keys two and three times if you want the second or third letter of the button. That seems like a hell of a lot of work, even for me (and I'm a very fast, very accurate typist.) I have a hard time with the tiny on-screen buttons of the navigator in my car. Isn't it s whole lot easier to just pick up the phone and call? Cheaper, too, since, as they say, "standard text messaging charges apply."

Then again, maybe I'm just getting old.