My dad and my FIL have no clue how to text. My mom has known, and my MIL just learned.
Do your parents or inlaws know how to text?
My dad and my FIL have no clue how to text. My mom has known, and my MIL just learned.
Do your parents or inlaws know how to text?
GOLD / wonderful pomegranate / 28905 posts
My mom no because she can't speak English.
My ILs yes..I actually curse the day my MIL started texting! hahahha She texts A LOT and she loves to text us during the work day.
nectarine / 2886 posts
Only my dad knows how to text, we text each other quite often! I send him pictures of our pup because he always asks about him, and he loves it!
grapefruit / 4187 posts
My MIL is the only one who knows how to text and I LOVE it!! I wish all our parents would text.
blogger / watermelon / 14218 posts
My parents turned off texting and yell at us if we send them texts or pictures because they get charged for it! Haha.
My MIL texts like crazy. She'll send me huge long texts copying passages straight from the bible, and she knows how to insert these little colored emoticons. I have no idea how to do that. She and Wagon Sr. text pictures back and forth a LOT. Since she's always at clients' houses we text her before calling usually. She's good about texting back.
kiwi / 691 posts
My mom texts all the time! And she'll text to tell me to check my email. Or email to tell me to check my texts. I'm like, this is an abuse of technology. Can't you just call me and tell me whatever it is?
hostess / wonderful apple seed / 16729 posts
My dad can text but my mom doesn't. My MIL can text but she never had a text plan until recently. My FIL does text.
eggplant / 11824 posts
No, they barely understand how to use a cell phone for regular phone functions!
hostess / wonderful persimmon / 25556 posts
Nope. My MIL calls it sexting and I think she thinks that's all you do when you text.....
wonderful olive / 19353 posts
My dad is text monster and prefers texting over verbal phone communication. Crazy talk right? My mom and in-laws don't text.
wonderful pomelo / 30692 posts
I think my FIL might text, but he doesn't text us, so I don't really know. My parents DEFINITELY don't text! They barely know how to use their cellphones.
hostess / wonderful persimmon / 25556 posts
Okay, this is totally random but my Mom sent me her first text today! Haha. She sent me a picture of my Dad at dinner - they're on the waterfront at Hilton Head Island. I think she was trying to make me jealous.
hostess / wonderful honeydew / 32460 posts
@mediagirl: awwww... I think we're going to go to Hilton Head for our babymoon. I've never been.
hostess / wonderful persimmon / 25556 posts
@chopsuey119: oh it's beautiful there! You'll have a wonderful time!
clementine / 773 posts
My dad started texting when he got a smartphone. My mom and IL's don't have texting on their plans, but I don't think they would use it if they did.
GOLD / squash / 13576 posts
My MIL texts too much. My mom and dad know how to text as well, but they don't text a lot.
GOLD / wonderful grape / 20289 posts
Lol, my dad is not a good texter, but he loves to do it. He'll text the most random things, and they're always spelled wrong. They always brighten up my day and make me laugh!
hostess / eggplant / 11068 posts
MY parents do not but my MIL just learned recently and she texts me constantly.
pomelo / 5866 posts
My mom has been texting like crazy for the past 10 years since she got a Blackberry for her work. I tell her she's worse than a teenager. My dad doesn't. Inlaws --no.
pomegranate / 3244 posts
My dad doesn't text. My mom doesn't know how to text, except to send me pictures. Usually of her dogs. And her tomato plants.
kiwi / 629 posts
Not my parents or inlaws, but my 74 year old grandmom has been texting me for years. She sends them ALL day long... pics of the pond in her backyard, birds and deer she can see from her porch, and pics of her and my grandpop just sitting there. She is so goofy.
GOLD / papaya / 10206 posts
Yep, my parents and IL's all have smartphones so we text a lot and share pics of LO all the time. Everyone except my MIL have blackberries so we BBM stuff back and forth quite a bit.
grapefruit / 4056 posts
My inlaws barely know how to work their cell phone.
My parents text, we have some hilarious family group text threads. My Dad has some great autocorrect fails, and some borderline inappropriate moments of forgetting he is on a family group text!
pomegranate / 3716 posts
All of our 4 parents have basic flip phones and don't know how to text. I don't forsee that changing, ever, haha!
honeydew / 7444 posts
Yep, my parents both text. My mom even has a smartphone now! What is this world coming to...
pear / 1787 posts
My in-laws text, but my parents have no idea how. I showed my mom how to text once...it took like 20 minutes and she texted my husband "hi, from jen" from my phone! she was so proud! My parents JUST got caller ID for the first time ever on their home phone, so they're a little behind the times.
pomegranate / 3872 posts
My parents text all the time but not my inlaws. I wish they would because it would be easier sometimes.
cantaloupe / 6923 posts
They all do. For a while my dad sent all his texts as urgent, so we would all get an urgent message in our inbox and it would be something dumb like "scout (family cat) has a boil on his back". Oh parents!
kiwi / 733 posts
Not well. They are all capable, but it's slow and painful, and often signed like an email.
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