Become a Text-Messaging Guru!

Text messaging is yet another modern-day way to stay connected with friends, family, and loved ones. It enables you to use your cellular phone, equipped with text-messaging ability, to transmit messages similar to e-mail. This is possible in a much more condensed, and easier to read format. Text messaging has quickly become popular amongst younger generations for a variety of reasons; it allows quick, no-nonsense messages to be sent and received; it doesn’t always require an answer; it’s a great way to ‘just say hi’; and it’s fun!

Once you get comfortable, you can turn into a Guru. The Text Messaging Guru is a rare sort, found amongst the crowds often as a rapid talker, typer, and e-mailer. These professionals have the art of text messaging down to a science; when the guru is hard at work, he or she is programming key words into selected numbers to speed up their skills and style. (My brother is one of these gurus, and I consider him a champion of the sport). What can we learn from these speed-mavens, besides switching to decaf?

Here are some great tips and strategies to increase your text messaging ability, and get your message across faster than the speed of, well, talk:

Guru says:Learn the lingo
This means all symbols, shortened words, and shortcuts of meanings for regularly used words. This saves on typing, and ensures that the receiver can decode what you are trying to transmit. Here are some key definitions to get you started: