Board:   [fsxNet] fsx General
Subject: Re: Quitting the smartphone
From:    Nightfox(21:1/137)
Date:    Thu Aug 20, 2026 09:42

  Re: Re: Quitting the smartphone
  By: Nightfox to Adept on Thu Aug 20 2026 10:38 am

 Ni> You must be younger than me.  :) I didn't grow up with text, and I didn't
 Ni> get my own cell phone until I was 21..  But since then, I've always found
 Ni> texting to be very convenient.

Right after I saved that message, I remembered that I did use texting as far as instant messenger apps on the internet, such as ICQ, AOL Instant Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, MSN Mesenger, etc..  The first one I had used was ICQ in late 1995 or so. So I was texting a lot that way, but at that time, that was mainly for online internet chat at a computer.

ICQ had a feature where you could fill out a little profile for yoruself and have it find you a random chat partner online - It was a bit like having pen pals. I talked to a lot of people that way, and I miss that sometimes. I wonder if people would still do that if that feature existed these days..  And I feel like as I've gotten older, it seems more rare for people to do that - Maybe for people in my age group.  Maybe younger people would be more apt to hang out and chat with people like that.  It was definitely a thing I did a lot in my teens and early 20s.

Nightfox
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