"Don't they know I have a flip phone?" That's what I say to myself when someone sends me an unsolicited text message. My phone isn't sophisticated enough to show the image they're sending, if there is an image. I can only imagine what it looks like. Maybe a naked lady, I'm not sure. I'll look at the phone to see who it is and when I figure out it's nobody important I'll delete the message.
I'm fascinated with the strategy of sending text messages on a phone in hopes of drumming up business. Sometimes the messages will come in five, six at a time. It's annoying. The sound of my phone vibrating is enough to set me off.
It's some kind of weird old fashioned strategy. I imagine some people answer the messages though, or they wouldn't keep sending them out.
India pops into my head. "They're coming from India." Sorry India, I don't mean to discriminate. They can just as easily be coming from the Philippines or Ohio.
When someone sends me an emoji, the image always comes up as a series of squares. It's none too exciting to receive an emoji that looks like a square. I try to figure out the intention of the sender. I'll look at the screen and depending on how many squares there are, I figure that's the number of emojis. I had to tell one of my friends to stop sending me emojis cause I can't see them. He laughed, and then sent me the old :))))
