For years, foreigners have wondered why Americans, usually at the vanguard of technological adoption, were so reluctant to embrace texting.
Love is the best thing ever, and so we embrace texting alongside sleepless nights and less space and the loss of alone time and the inevitable daily compromises.
At Bethesda-Chevy Chase High, several students -- some who embrace texting and one who says he avoids it - voice the same concern.
Germans have also embraced texting, which involves similar linguistic constraints to microblogging, with gusto.A more likely reason is Germans' preoccupation with privacy.
But teenagers in particular have embraced "texting" largely because sending a message is cheaper, if more laborious, than making a voice call.
It necessarily focuses on material culture and remains in the prehistoric periods, and embraces texts and other sources in the historic periods.
And since adding search functionality in December, textPlus has seen 27 million searches, mostly among younger users, who have embraced texting as the new voice — and instant messager.
Nonetheless, Mr. Lee says he is confident that Americans will embrace visual texting methods.
And even when one is dealing with a subject that can be readily embraced with text and still pictures - as with photography - there is a certain liveliness and immediacy created by the videotape.
Her work embraces image, text, and social practice and has been included in public and gallery exhibitions since the early 90s.
The texts embrace the political rhetoric of the day, in which all problems were succinctly rendered into rhyming epithets.
