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Deliquents and cell phones

Postby canman » Fri Jun 25, 2004 10:04 am

According to those geniuses at the MPD, the cause of deliquency is the use of cell phones. Now I understand what they are getting at, but there must be some other factors to blame. How did they figure out the rate of delinquency before cell phones became popular, did they count the number of notes they passed in class or what. :roll:
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GG, I wonder how many emails do you send a day, and do your fingers get sore after a while. I'm amazed when I watch especially teenage girls and the way they can whip off a message in mere seconds.
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Postby GomiGirl » Fri Jun 25, 2004 11:43 am

canman1 wrote: GG, I wonder how many emails do you send a day, and do your fingers get sore after a while. I'm amazed when I watch especially teenage girls and the way they can whip off a message in mere seconds.


Keitai emails - dozens. Sometimes just to let people know where I am and what time I will be there. But to people I send emails to all the time I use shorthand. eg I often send an email to my "boss" (aka GomiBrother) to say. u in off? eta 5 which of course means "Are you in the office? I will be there in 5 minutes."

But this is only when I am sending to other keitais. I try to use correct syntax and grammar when sending emails to PC's - just a quirk of mine I guess - but I can type on a keitai quite quickly in both English and Japanese. 8) Fingers don't get sore. But it does take some practice and I do work with mobile phones all day everyday so I have a bit of an advantage.

Sending keitai emails does save time and money. eg where are you and at what exit shall we meet at what time - that kinda thing. Living in Japan is tailor made for this type of activity. emails on keitais will never be as popular in other countries mainly due to the different lifestyle and transportation habits.

Personal keitai emails - well... that is a bit of a secret. :wink: But I do love camera phones as a picture does speak a thousand words - especially to one's honey. :wink:
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Postby GomiGirl » Fri Jun 25, 2004 11:46 am

p.s. I don't think that keitais make people delinquent - it just makes the kids more organised when the goof off.

Sheesh I used to wag school and university long before I ever saw my first mobile phone... 8)
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Postby gomichild » Fri Jun 25, 2004 1:48 pm

I don't like sending messages by keitai much - but it may be connected to my general phone phobia.
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Postby GomiGirl » Fri Jun 25, 2004 2:13 pm

gomichild wrote:I don't like sending messages by keitai much - but it may be connected to my general phone phobia.


But you used to wag school I bet!!! :wink:
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Postby gomichild » Fri Jun 25, 2004 3:42 pm

NEVER - I was a girlie swat!

Besides if I wagged then I wouldn't have been able to hassle my teachers :wink:
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Postby vvx » Fri Jun 25, 2004 3:43 pm

GomiGirl wrote:
gomichild wrote:I don't like sending messages by keitai much - but it may be connected to my general phone phobia.


But you used to wag school I bet!!! :wink:


We used to hear rumours about people wagging in the women's bathroom at school all the time back in high school.
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Postby GomiGirl » Fri Jun 25, 2004 3:49 pm

vvx wrote:
GomiGirl wrote:
gomichild wrote:I don't like sending messages by keitai much - but it may be connected to my general phone phobia.


But you used to wag school I bet!!! :wink:


We used to hear rumours about people wagging in the women's bathroom at school all the time back in high school.


Ahhh are we talking about the same thing.. back where GC and I come from wagging is slang for truancy.. :?
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Postby Crambo » Fri Jun 25, 2004 6:40 pm

Yeah, wagging whilst being at the school still and in the toilets is going to either be quite the dynamic act or a very poorly executed attempt at truancy, unless of course it does mean something different to what the two Gomis have been talking about. In that case, you did that at school?! "Nasty".
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Postby Ol Dirty Gaijin » Fri Jun 25, 2004 9:23 pm

Why wag and stay at school. You could be down the pinnies...
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Postby String » Fri Jun 25, 2004 11:24 pm

The survey showed delinquent junior and senior high school students make an average 7.7 phone calls and send an average 42.6 email messages a day from their cell phones. Their nondelinquent counterparts make an average 2.7 phone calls and send out an average 30.5 email messages a day.


42.6 a day? :jawdrop: At least their non-delinquent counterparts ONLY send an average of 30.5/day. 8O
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Postby kamome » Sat Jun 26, 2004 12:21 am

gomichild wrote:NEVER - I was a girlie swat!

Besides if I wagged then I wouldn't have been able to hassle my teachers :wink:


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Re: Deliquents and cell phones

Postby emperor » Sat Jun 26, 2004 7:30 am

canman1 wrote:I'm amazed when I watch especially teenage girls and the way they can whip off a message in mere seconds.


I reacon the predictive text helps..

GomiGirl wrote:Living in Japan is tailor made for this type of activity. emails on keitais will never be as popular in other countries mainly due to the different lifestyle and transportation habits.

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