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"Twitter is for old people"
Eris:
i think it means using the phone as in calling someone. Texting (at least here) is much cheaper than calling someone on your mobile.
Bastardous Bassist:
So you don't need to pay for a calling plan to get a texting plan? I know I certainly do.
Eris:
here we have pre-paid deals, where you buy a sim card for $2 or whatever (normally if you get a phone as well it is about $100 or something, depending on where you buy it from) and then are able to put money on your sim to use within 6 months to either send texts or make calls. I think a lot of parents here get their teenagers on pre-paid rather than a plan, so they can't rack up giant bills. You put $30 on the card and when the kid uses it up they have to put more on or deal without being able to use their phone.
nichidani:
i call people most of the time, if i really need to talk to them. if it's not of dire importance, i text. i pay a flat rate for unlimited texting, so it's cheaper than calling.
as far as social networking sites, i have pretty much all of them but i use twitter the most by far.
oh, and i suppose it is true that most teenagers don't buy music. but i don't think a lot of them use torrents. i do, but when i try to explain it to a lot of my peers or god forbid someone younger than me, they kind of just stare.
i don't go to the movies, but god i hate movies. i will only go see something i am really very interested in. but this "teenagers don't go to the movies" thing is bullshit, because i refuse to even go to the movies on friday-sunday, for the overflow of 12-16 year olds clogging the place up. ):<
sony ericsson phones are the most popular? not in america. fuck. i don't even know a single person with one of those anymore.
Bastardous Bassist:
@Eris. Huh. I've seen those pre-paid things, and thought "That's very poor value for money" and then moved on. Apparently, with the plans these days, you can allocate certain minutes to your kids. At least I've seen commercials for that sort of thing. Maybe I am just obscenely out-of-touch. I've never used Facebook, twitter, myspace, livejournal or any of those other things (not that I believe myspace and livejournal to be new, but I didn't use them when the were new and cool).
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