In the first show, Hillary talked a little bit about the text message story, that she learned how to send it. The story reminded me how the cellphone dealt with my life when I was in Japan. The text messages are not common in Japan, but we basically have our e-mail address for each cellphone. Japanese, especially the young generation really like to send cellphone e-mails as a communication tool in their daily lives.
When I was a college student in Japan, I used to send my friends or boyfriend at least ten messages a day, including photos sometimes, via the cellphone so that I was able to get a hold of them. I think that in America people send text messages less compared to Japanese. Americans tend to call and talk directly rather than sending messages. It seems that they consider a cellphone as just a “phone”. The young generation, they prefer use a PC to cellphones to send
e-mails.
I think that the cellphone was more an entertainment tool that we often could share our feelings with each other by sending silly messages or photos in a day when I lived in Japan. I think that many Japanese like to send and receive their friends’ messages many times in a day, so that they are able to feel like “I am connecting to them” or “I am now belonging to a group”. It is interesting that now I kind of see the cultural differences between Americans and Japanese since I started living in Hawaii.
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My friend, who is a high school teacher, told me that 30% of students in a class send text messages during the class in Korea. It's a negative influence of a cell phone. So, I made up my mind that I'd not buy my children a cell phone until they can pay their own bills. But I'm not sure that I can overcome my kids'demand and pressure.
Well,, I am in 30% of students in a class send text messages during the class in Korea. I know, I should't do that during the class. But I really miss that moments. I wish to doing that with new American friends.
In Hawaii, my Japanese friends send text messages to me. Whereas, American friends usually contact to me with not messages, but just calling. I think it's also a part of culture differance.
I think it's related with not only cultural aspect but also generation. I think sending text messagge for our parents generation is not as much common as our generation.
I don't like sending text messages... I'm old now.
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