Shameless self promotion (and your humanitarian concerns) are only a text away.

Reactee lets you customize your own t-shirt that when texted will send any response you like. They give you suggestions (“Stop Global Warming”, “Practice Safe Texting”) or you can design your own (“Single?”, “Hung Like A Democrat”) that you can share with friends or just order for yourself.

All you do is text the keyword on the shirt to 41411 and your customized response will be sent straight to the users cell. Visit reactee.com to customize a tee, browse the gallery and send a few texts. You never know what response will show up in your inbox!

Here are a few of my favs. (And try mine out for size!!) Read More »

I am loving Gmail chat, or Gchat as those of us in the know like to call it. And I am so over AOL Instant Messenger.

AIM, with its elaborate sound effects and cutesy but cluttered design, has lost its appeal for me. There was a time when I, like many of my friends, left AIM constantly signed on, just in case some crucial or exciting message might pop up unexpectedly. But over time, the many irritations of AIM began to wear on me. I signed on less and less frequently, and eventually not at all.

Those advertisements at the top of the buddy list window would make loud and abrupt noises out of nowhere, which freaked me out. I’m through spending hours meticulously crafting witty away messages or tweaking my profile, and I’m definitely through reading other people’s away messages and profiles. The internet has come a long way, and there are far better ways to kill time. Like Facebook. Also, in the many long years I’ve been using AIM, I have acquired a lot of “buddies”. A lot of random buddies, many of whom I no longer care to chat with. It’s so awkward when some long lost acquaintance I occasionally partied with during my senior year of high school wants to kill time by IMing me. I have nothing to say, but at the same time, how can I blow someone off when we haven’t spoken in three or four years? Read More »

Did you know that millions of people have been using their cell phones as a dating service? Um yeah, well I just heard about it too. Absolutely proposterous, right?!

With the rise in popularity of online dating now at an all-time high, it’s not news to anyone that we have access to just about anything, literally right at our fingertips. From finding directions, to ordering take-out, to searching for a job, to making celebrities out of nobodies, the internet does everything for us, including helping us hook up.

And as the good old web has joined forces with Blackberrys and Palm Pilots and all the other freaks of technology that seem to do everything in the name of communication, cell phones can now be used to access dating services from anywhere at anytime – making the booty call or booty graze that much more convenient for everyone! Yes, hard to believe, but it is now even easier to have casual, spur-of-the-moment sex. Read More »

OMG! No U Ddnt!

I’ve never been the biggest fan of text messaging. I still have one of those phones where you have to press a thousand different keys get the letters you want, and since everything is so damn small, squinting is the only way to make sure I’m saying the right things.

Plus, I’ve never understood why someone would text instead of call unless A) they’re somewhere that inhibits phone usage or B) they don’t want to hear the other person’s voice.

These opinions of mine are in the minority, though. I’m well aware of how much this country is in love with text messaging. Just like that crazy AOL Instant Messenger took hold of my generation years ago, text messaging is slowly becoming our primary form of communication as well as a way to make shitloads of cash. Read More »

It pains me to admit this, but last year — during midterms, no less — I obtained a copy of He’s Just Not That Into You and read it, cover to cover and back again. And wept.

Well, maybe there were no physical tears, but for a good month after reading it I walked around in a cynical fog, thinking about all the guys who were obviously not thinking about me because they were not contacting me. I mean, there are just some days (cough, months) when my cell phone doesn’t ring, when my Facebook profile grows gray hair and tumbleweeds roll across my Myspace page. I’ve accepted it. It’s FINE.

But for those odd, golden days when a little bird with a message flies across the computer screen or I receive an ambiguous text message from my study buddy in American Cultures, I’ve devised a pyramid of interest – indication in relation to methods of contact other than talking face-to-face (which is soooo 1922) to help myself sort through this mess of modern communication. What does it all mean? Does he like me??? Let’s see! Read More »

Are you an obsessive texter? Is texting your #1 form of communication? You think you’ve got the texting skills to pay the bills?

If the answer is yes, then you’re in luck. But now, you’ve gotta prove it. Time to get serious here.

Geeksugar.com reports the National Texting Championship and its last round, the East Coast Finals, on Saturday, April 21st in New York City. If you have an LG phone and text like a madwoman, get in on this: the winner of the East Coast finals wins $15,000, and the winner of the entire Championship wins a total of $25,000! Just for texting! What is this world coming to?!?

During the competition, competitors will be divided into pools and given phrases to text. The winner of each pool (the first person with no errors in the text) will advance on against other pool winners, as the texting gets more difficult. That means, you gotta be ready for symbols, numbers, and letters being thrown at you from every direction. And, the biggest challenge of all – NO abbreviations are allowed.

So, register NOW, start practicing by obnoxiously sending your friends random, meaningless texts and run up those phone bills if you have to – it may actually pay off.

Gd Lck u ppl! TTYL