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Originally Posted by jbcohen
I am going to attempt to argue a point here. As an IT tech supporting texting or not is not an option I am require to understand it and exactly how that phone acomplishes the job, thus my opinion is completely irrelevant. What I do know is this:
Older generations did not have texting or cell phones so instead we attempted to covert communications by a much older means of communications referred to as note passing. How many times did you pass notes under desks or behind your backs, I know I did it and pals of mine did it. How many times did a teacher slam a ruler down on your desk and demand the note? Happened to me a few times.
What has changed is the method that kids employ to do the covert note passing. Texting is nothing more then the note passing in electronic form. How many times did your wife or sisters rush home from school to get on the land line and yack to her friends? My sister did a lot, and the texting is old wine in new bottles.
Email is not available for this purposes since it does not exist outside desktop and laptop computers. Instant Messaging is preferred because unlinke email (which gets stored in the PC or laptop's memory then its sent, and thus is called store-foward) its sent without any record being kept. Troubble is that instant messaging is not available outside desktops and laptops. The only thing that is available is something called text messages, thus they have no choice to use that for covert communications.
Think about it for a moment, stick a cell phone to your ear and its a lot more ovbious that you are talking on the phone then texting is. However, they can use a blue tooth headset to do that simply walk down the hall way mumbling and it looks like they are simply mubling or talking to themselves. But don't tell that to your kids blue tooth head sets are a lot more covert then texting is, expecially on the women with long hair which will cover up the head set. Mumbling on the headset is less obvious then a kid walking around with a cell phone in his/her hands.
So I understand why they do it and how the phone does that. Doesn't mean that I like it just means that I know why and how they do it.
Just don't tell your kids about the bluetooth head sets - makes it harder to detect that they are talking on the phone.
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you are sorely mistaken if you think that text messages are not stored somewhere. as far as not telling kids, especially teens about bluetooth technology, you'll find that they are light years ahead of us with any new technology trends