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The life of 20-year-old Emine, and her 24-year-old husband Ramazan Çalçoban was pretty much the normal life of any couple in a separation process. After deciding to split up, the two kept having bitter arguments over the cellphone, sending text messages to each other until one day Ramazan wrote “you change the topic every time you run out of arguments.” That day, the lack of a single dot over a letter—product of a faulty localization of the cellphone’s typing system—caused a chain of events that ended in a violent blood bath.

via [Gizmodo]

I’ve always been kind of anti-text messaging. Mainly because I refuse to pay an extra $5 a month and also they nickel and dime me for everyone I send out (and my old plan would also charge me upon receiving). I kind of wish people would stop using text messaging as a substitute for real conversation. Constant updates on how your feet feel at work is unimportant to me. Although this article isn’t exactly an example of why not to hold conversations through text message, but more like: “if you do text message, it might be good if it supported the language you’re speaking in.”

Regardless, I do not refrain from using text messages, as sometime they are indeed very useful (situationally). Often times after maybe, fourth or fifth message from a friend, I think perhaps we should upgrade this to a voice call, we seem to have something of moderate interest here.

So don’t go getting into the arguments through text messages. Also, not getting stabbed wouldn’t hurt either.