{"id":329,"date":"2006-03-20T10:22:51","date_gmt":"2006-03-20T10:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=329"},"modified":"2006-03-20T10:22:51","modified_gmt":"2006-03-20T10:22:51","slug":"sup-hu-dizb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=329","title":{"rendered":"Sup hu dizb?"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the cell networks here in NZ is running a long-term promotion: texting is free on weekends to other phones on that network. It’s a genius bit of marketing, but I don’t know how the heck they afford it.
\nAnyway, it’s given birth to an entirely new phenomenon – new to me at least.
\nFour times this weekend I received texts from unknown numbers. The content was text-speak for ‘hi, who is this?’. They were all from different numbers at different times of day.
\n(One of them’s in the title; another read ‘Hae!Wad u up 2 hu dizb??…’, I deleted the other two before I realised this was a phenomenon worthy of note)
\nSo, I figure there are only a few possible explanations:
\n* my number is written on a wall somewhere with an encouragement to text me
\n* the cellphone virus we’ve all been dreading is here, and it communicates like a fourteen-year-old girl
\n* there are people out there who take advantage of free text weekends to randomly text any number they can think of, and see what response they get
\nIt is a bit odd to me that out of nowhere I get four texts from different numbers in the same weekend. That’s a pretty incredible hit rate if it’s people entering numbers pseudo-randomly, which leads me to suspect that the third explanation isn’t the true one.
\nI didn’t text back to any of them in case they were some weird spider trying to harvest active cellphone numbers or something. I dunno. Also I didn’t care enough.
\nSo, anyone else experience this? Anyone know what it means?
\n——-
\nThis, over on the new-look Xenodochion<\/a> and Matt M’s LJ, is extremely worth a look and a ponder, combining amusing cute kid story with epistemological exercise: Part 1<\/a> and Part 2<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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