Saturday, December 30, 2006

Text Message Flirting

Text Message Flirting – The New Proposal?

Text messaging is a form of communication that has swept the nation in a tornado-like manner. It seems as though just about everyone from the age of nine has a cellular phone (or access to one) equipped with text messaging functions. While this was only a new and novel idea less than ten years ago, many people now use this as their primary form of communication. People use text messaging to give quick messages, have full conversations, tell stories, argue and even flirt.

Text message flirting seems to just happen, as opposed to it being a planned action. Emoticons, faces and abbreviations allow words coming across a screen to become close to real-life conversation, and hence the increasing popularity. Text messaging is a way for people to save their voice, safe precious allotted minutes, and avoid the occasional awkwardness of talking face to face.

The last mentioned benefit is one that comes into play when text message flirting is involved. Flirting can be awkward and many people are afraid of getting rejected, so flirting via text message is a safe way to show your interest without the fear of being turned down. The following information will allow you to understand the basics of text message flirting, as well as give you some venues for doing so.

Where to and How to Flirt Via Text Message

Most every cell phone company has an option for text messaging. It may be included in a package or you may have to pay per text message. Either way, if you have someone to flirt with, you can flirt via text messaging. Flirting with text messages can be intentional or incidental, as often conversations turn into a form of flirting, especially if there is attraction on at least one of the parties.

Text message flirting may include giving compliments, dropping subtle hints, making cute faces such as smiley faces, winking eyes or puckered lip faces, or being completely overt and letting someone know how you feel. Each person flirts differently via text messaging, and it really depends on the person’s personality, the person they are flirting with and the situation.

The venue for flirting via text messaging can be based upon people already in a cell phone address book, online chat via text messaging, and special services just for cell phone companies that give a person a number of others to chat with. Companies like UPOC make chat-room like environments available for text messaging on cell phones, and they can be found with nearly every cellular company. In short, there are tons of places a person can pursue their desire for text message flirting, they just need to open their eyes, as they are available everywhere.