Friday, March 23, 2007
Best of SMS Livedating: The Twitter Vs. Text Edition
filed under: SMS Livedating by Melissa Gira
In a cab, barreling through Manhattan in the sleet and hail, Lux and I were competing for tweets. Rather, competing for who could most quickly get each other’s wit down into 140 or characters or less. (She totally ran away with my ‘losing queer girl cred‘ train of thought, while I nicked her best accusations that I was ‘cheating on her with internet dick.’) Once we were in person, our live conversation made flippy floppy and switched up with Twitter, making our talking-to the real back channel, even as it was rapidly translated into something consumable to many more.
Does this happen all the time? Sure. Do we know that lots of great sex gossip never made it up? Absolutely. Here, then, is the best of what remains behind as dirty breadcrumbs on my phone’s memory — out of context, but hopefully, maybe, still salacious yet demonstrative of how always-on sex is becoming on a mobile, even when it’s post-dated:
text: oh i can feel the twitterpation from here. Literally. You are all such tweet sluts. plsnodontstop.
twitter: @u_m, seriously, [redacted]. now i’ve got sex to [redacted] to keep me warm on the next leg of my trip.
text: Oh my, my fingernails still bear the scent of your [redacted].
twitter: waiting for the A train in the barest of snowfall.
text: [redacted] … [redacted] and my toes curled as the music crashed. wet.
twitter: Back in Lux’s bed working with damp toes. New toys from Fifth Ave, just what a girl needs: an ipod nano, a bluetooth keyboard for my phone
text: thx for the warning. readying the lipgloss for battle. see you in 10.
twitter: new lipgloss: ’scandal.’ speaking of: what would be on your ’scandalous’ secret sex tape?
text: make him take dirty pix (vids?)
twitter: lux deems this evening CLASS2ASS
Happy weekend, and remember: it’s going to be a come-on sooner or later to ask for a ‘thumbrub’ after too much text flirting, so why not ring in the future right now?
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