T9 vs abc

Some of you may be wondering what T9 and abc are, well they are functions on a cell phone. The T9 function is where you begin to text a word and the dictionary within your phone, attempts to complete the word you are trying to spell. In relation to texting, the abc function allows you to spell the word letter-by-letter. The T9 function, I like to believe is there to help with the speed of texting as if you were speaking the words. Whereas the abc function slows down how fast your text will be sent out and would sound robotic if you were to speak it. Of coarse there are many other ways in which to improve the speed of texting, like a better quality phone with keyboard type keys.

I also like to think that the short step of T9 helps preserve on the life of your cell phone battery and abc would use up more of the battery power. This can very well be true because you use less buttons to spell a word with T9, by the dictionary helping with a variety of words to choose from. Abc function gives you no other word but the one you are spelling and you must push every letter in the word. Now with a little understanding of the two functions, now I must tell you the interest of T9 and abc. My sister asked to use my cell phone to text our mom when she discovered she knew nothing about T9 and had always used abc.

The first thing my sister had to ask is how can I let the phone think for me. I asked her how so, and she liked to believe if you are texting a certain word why let the phone start putting other words in your head and then you pick what the phone thinks is a quicker or faster choice of word. Regardless of how many more seconds it may take she believes T9 does not let you think for yourself it will change your thoughts. I thought she was being silly at first until I started texting a few hours later. I realized I started to text a word and other words that I have used in the past started to come up to see if I wanted to use one of them. There are many short cuts with CMC that everyone uses and some short cuts are more useful than others.

Second Life Halloween Party

Now that I'm starting to get the hang of this online community it's not so bad as I thought it was. For Friday's class we held a Halloween Party on Second Life and I actually enjoyed communicating with other classmates and others online. I never really payed attention to how convenient it is to communicate online from the comfort of your own home. Friday started off just a little crazy for me, the cable guy was there hooking up wireless access and both my younger boys are home from school. If I had not told anyone that, all they were to know is that I was at a haunted manor for a online class.

Once the chaos settled down or I stopped multi-tasking I really began to get involved with Second Life. Yes, it is true you look like a clone if you don't change some things about your avatar and I was still unsure on how to do that. I did respond and say hello to other classmates and watched how other online avatars followed and made weired comments. It was a handy feature to know how to teleport to another place especially if someone insisted on pestering you. Once it becomes annoying then it feels like stalking and that can feel uncomfortable and you want to leave.

Someone stopped to say hello and asked if I needed help. I was so happy someone found me and knew a little bit more then I did because I just could not go anywhere. The person that helped me was named David and he spends most of this time helping out "newbies" such as myself, not feel like a clone. David actually taught me how to teleport and I even have different clothes that fit my taste for such short timing. I guess my appearance ranks high on the list before comfort begins to set in.

P.S. Sorry for any inconvenience but I have other blogs you just have to click on my personal profile that's what I meant by it was just a click away. LOL