Order Your Coffee Via SMS

"Imagine never having to stand in line at the coffee shop again.

It's a reality in New York City.

Coffee drinkers send a text message from their cell phone to the coffee shop -- and a hot cup is waiting for them when they arrive.

In New York, people are signing up at gomobo.com and cutting in line at several donut shops and restaurants.

A California website -- mytango.com -- is getting into the act as well."

Source: ABC7


Cell phones used to be luxury items, now people can't live without their cell phones. I can't live without mine.
Text messaging, or SMS, probably first boomed in Asia, then it spreads like a virus. I learned how to SMS from my mom. Just out of nowhere, she started sending me text messages for everything. I thought it was just her, but then everybody else started doing it too.

When I was in Sydney, which was from 1998 to 2000, I never used text messaging as a communication tool and I don't recall anyone I knew back then using it. I don't think Vodafone offered any text messages plan, they didn't even have any calling plan with thousand of minutes [I don't know if they do now], and I did spend a tremendous amount of money to pay my Vodafone bills every month because I have friends all over Australia and I used to be a chit-chatter [believe it or not!].

Now I'm hooked with SMS!
Just like everyone else!

I use SMS for e.v.e.r.y.t.h.i.n.g! I realized that I spend more time typing SMS than actually talking on the phone. I think it's pathetic and I'm not as talkative on the phone as I used to. I agree that sometimes SMS is very convenient when you're in a situation where you can't talk on the phone. But for other times, I believe that it's more intimate and personal to talk directly to the person over the phone.

I always have left over minutes every month and always run out of my text messages quota. I've been cutting down on SMS big time lately, but it doesn't make a big difference because everybody else, especially from Indo, keeps sending me SMS. Now I screen my incoming international SMS, if I don't think it's important, I won't reply it.

My mom suffers the most from my new screening policy. She's like the Queen of Text Messages. The first 3 weeks, she didn't bug me with useless, very unimportant text messages. I think because she's realized that I'm going to ignore those text messages anyway.

A few days ago, she sent me a text message about my new health insurance policy, so I replied and we "talked" for a while through text messages. Then she started sending me text messages about the useless, very unimportant stuff that I don't even care or want to know about. I ignored her, and the text messages stopped. I know that it's bad to ignore your own mom, but what other choices do I have? I can't yell at her to stop doing it obviously.

I'm in the process of changing my communication style completely. I think people need to start doing this before the technology takes over our lives. Besides, I better start using my 700 Rollover and 5,000 Nights & Weekends Minutes!