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Katie Couric Explains How Texting Works in Relationships
Posted by Mark Wilson at 9:40 AM on December 3, 2008
Let it be known, Katie Couric is OK with saying you love someone over text message. Just don't dump somebody that way. Text messaging: Adequate for love, not quite seething enough for hate. [via textually]

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SlinkyDink
Posted 11:16 AM 3/12/08
@Kev50027: you just mad because she made Sarah Palin talk and stuff.
SlinkyDink
TBM-Fan
Posted 11:11 AM 3/12/08
it looks like a milf.... @ least that's what a mate told me
TBM-Fan
MichaelBrazell
Posted 11:09 AM 3/12/08
@Git Em SteveDave loves this guy->★: 4 1/2 year girlfriend, dumped me over IM. But those days are behind me.
MichaelBrazell
lankysob
Posted 11:06 AM 3/12/08
No one sends "Thinking Of You" to their Boo. What the hell does that even mean to you when you get it?
"Thinking of You...dead"?
"Thinking of You...going away for good"?
"Thinking of You...because I don't actually want to see you"?
"Thinking of You...while with my other, hotter girlfriend"?
"Thinking of You...cooking dinner for me by the time I get home"?
"Thinking of You...Blending"?
I bet the actual most sent "romantic message" is:
"Hey, R U Up?"
Translation:
"Booty Call."
lankysob
Ike_Skelton
Posted 10:59 AM 3/12/08
@Kev50027: Yeah, those damn liberals and their fear mongering media stories. Those bastards!
Ike_Skelton
Git Em SteveDave loves this guy->★
Posted 10:53 AM 3/12/08
@Mr.SithNinja: We were going out for almost three years when this happened. She lived with me whenever she wasn't at school.
@token_y_chromosome: I got the "we need a break" over IM, and the final nail was when she sent an email a week later asking if her friend could come over and pick up her stuff, b/c her new blind BF apparently isn't good at moving things. Or something.
Git Em SteveDave loves this guy->★
hymntook
Posted 10:53 AM 3/12/08
Those fingers are also doing the romancing? Cool.
hymntook
Kev50027
Posted 10:51 AM 3/12/08
I hate that lady. Just look at her, she's a freaking ugly evil liberal creep. Ugh! I can't stand liberal media.
Kev50027
token_y_chromosome
Posted 10:50 AM 3/12/08
@Git Em SteveDave loves this guy->★: I got it over email too. She got back in touch with me over email too. We've been married for two years now.
token_y_chromosome
Jagged Toaster
Posted 10:47 AM 3/12/08
"We're done. LOL."
"OMG! WTF? F U!"
Jagged Toaster
Mr.SithNinja
Posted 10:47 AM 3/12/08
@Git Em SteveDave loves this guy->★: That tends to happen with online relationships where you never actualy MEET the person....
(That was mean....sorry....kinda.....)
Mr.SithNinja
Git Em SteveDave loves this guy->★
Posted 10:45 AM 3/12/08
I got dumped over IM and then E-mail. Yeah, that hurts.
Git Em SteveDave loves this guy->★
DeadWriter
Posted 11:34 AM 3/12/08
Honestly, if one of the The Onion's or The Daily Show's corespondents did this story dead pan and didn't change a word, it would be funny and sound as though they were making fun of the traditional broadcast news stories.
DeadWriter
diamonddnice
Posted 11:32 AM 3/12/08
@diamonddnice: They are clearly undermining America.
diamonddnice
diamonddnice
Posted 11:31 AM 3/12/08
@Kev50027: Don't forget their crazy hard gotcha questions like, "What newspapers and magazines do you regularly read?" What's with their fixation with reading and learning things?
diamonddnice
DeadWriter
Posted 11:24 AM 3/12/08
"text messaging is all the rage"- welcome to last decade.
Texting is still very relevant, but no more the rage than breathing or being irritated with anybody that is not a teen is.
News Flash: Many teens want tattoos and piercings, some are even getting them, next time on the News at 11.
DeadWriter
lankysob
Posted 11:21 AM 3/12/08
@homerjay- Smiling politely: Sure, kick him while he's down.
lankysob
homerjay- Smiling politely
Posted 11:20 AM 3/12/08
Am I the only one that can't get this thing to play? As soon as I hit play it comes up with "replay Video."
Then I go to the CBS site and it does the same thing.
I blame SteveDave.
homerjay- Smiling politely
anti-hello-kitty
Posted 11:53 AM 3/12/08
@anti-hello-kitty: Well, I guess she was a member of Delta Delta Delta sorority. She's seen a lot of close people to her pass away from cancer..
IMDB
anti-hello-kitty
anti-hello-kitty
Posted 11:40 AM 3/12/08
There's something very scary, fake, yet extremely sexually attractive about Katie. Like she's a grownup college party girl. I wonder if she'd have funny stories to tell once she's had a few drinks. She'd probably share cigarettes and a joint outside in the freezing cold during a party. And she'd drink tallboys with a beer coolie...
anti-hello-kitty
Curves
Posted 11:37 AM 3/12/08
@Git Em SteveDave loves this guy->★: There is no easy way to break it off, but not doing it face to face is classless. Usually the reason people do it from a distance is to avoid a scene. I always try to part friends, but guys have a different view of "lets still be friends" than women do, so that seldom works out.
Curves
92BuickLeSabre
Posted 12:08 PM 3/12/08
@admoseremic:
1) Assume it exists
2) [www.google.com] to verify.
92BuickLeSabre
92BuickLeSabre
Posted 12:06 PM 3/12/08
@DeadWriter: Given SNL's Fey-Couric "sketch" the irony would be nice.
92BuickLeSabre
92BuickLeSabre
Posted 12:04 PM 3/12/08
@Kev50027: Thanks for the giggles. It had been a long day.
92BuickLeSabre
92BuickLeSabre
Posted 12:04 PM 3/12/08
@Curves: Now, now. Some women have that view as well.
@zenpoet: tsext?
92BuickLeSabre
Git Em SteveDave loves this guy->★
Posted 12:02 PM 3/12/08
@Curves: I'm friends with a lot of my Ex's. Except for my one psycho ex, whom I call Psycho, I don't hold a grudge against any of them. It was pretty much my fault anyway, so I can't blame them.
Git Em SteveDave loves this guy->★
admoseremic
Posted 12:01 PM 3/12/08
This raises the question: Is there such a thing as a phone-sex number you can text? I've never heard of one if there is such a thing.
admoseremic
zenpoet
Posted 12:01 PM 3/12/08
@Curves: And it completely gets rid of the possibility of break up sex if you do it via text message, though if you are strange enough to text this much, then you probably only had cybersex any way.
Side note: Is there a new term for cybersex? That just really feels outdated to me, but I guess I can't think of any other terms that are as resounding in their description.
zenpoet
alexarch
Posted 11:59 AM 3/12/08
Evening news anchors ought not say, "Boo" when referring to a love interest. It hurts the brain.
alexarch
Incognito
Posted 12:21 PM 3/12/08
@92BuickLeSabre: I was friends for my ex-husband for a while... but that was before I took him to court. It makes the subpoena easier to deal with. (He has no money, nor has he paid a cent in child care, different reason)
Incognito
MrYuk
Posted 12:10 PM 3/12/08
IJTUIMM (I just threw up in my mouth)
MrYuk
SugitaAlcimede
Posted 12:37 PM 3/12/08
blech. Crepey Cougar needs to DIAF already. She's bloody awful.
SugitaAlcimede
hymntook
Posted 12:34 PM 3/12/08
@anti-hello-kitty: Those people were in Gamma Gamma Gamma.
hymntook
kylo4
Posted 12:31 PM 3/12/08
In my opinion, if you don't do it in person you're kind of an asshole. If both of you are mature enough, then you'll take it like an adult, even though it's hard and not throw a temper tantrum. Then again, my friend and I don't think like most people and so that may be difficult to apply.
kylo4
chizelord
Posted 1:04 PM 3/12/08
@Git Em SteveDave loves this guy->★: I got dumped over IM, then text and then phone call. Now she wont even look at me.you would think that after a 4 year relationship she would at least still acknowledge my existence.
chizelord
rhett121
Posted 1:29 PM 3/12/08
Who cares what Katie the moron Couric thinks? Sara Palin was the first person to actually make her appear somewhat intelligent by comparison.
rhett121
AJ_Syrinx
Posted 1:23 PM 3/12/08
"Boo?" C'mon Katie. That's so 2004!
AJ_Syrinx
tr
Posted 1:50 PM 3/12/08
got dumped twice via text. funny thing, the last ex-gf hated my previous ex-gf for ending it that way. then she dumped me just a few months ago the same way.
i know. i can pick 'em.
tr
davekaybsc
Posted 2:12 PM 3/12/08
News worth watching - Keith and Rachel. That is all.
I wonder what Fox will do now that they don't have daily memos from the White House telling them what to say? Let me guess, 24hrs of Barack Obama is: A. A Marxist B. A Secret Muslim C. A Terrorist D. All Of The Above
(and he's black.. scary). B.O. just learned that "those people" can use silverware, they don't eat off the floor or throw spears at their food! Who knew?
davekaybsc
Monty
Posted 2:08 PM 3/12/08
Okay, someone needs to get Couric's number so we can all text her.
Monty
admoseremic
Posted 2:28 PM 3/12/08
@92BuickLeSabre: I'm not sure I want to know now akshly.
admoseremic
iwantcokeinabottle
Posted 3:02 PM 3/12/08
I love how they say it was an "ATT study." Yeah, right ATT has just been logging all of the text messages and putting them into a giant database to study patterns.
iwantcokeinabottle
MrHaroHaro
Posted 4:35 PM 3/12/08
All I ever get are text messages saying "Sorry [MrHaroHaro] I've got a boyfriend now."
MrHaroHaro
umassdood
Posted 5:10 PM 3/12/08
Wait a minute. You're saying people are using a communications medium to communicate about love? Whoah!
umassdood
Optimus-Prime
Posted 12:52 AM 4/12/08
@Git Em SteveDave loves this guy->★: On the flip side I went to a tech college and one of my mates PROPOSED over email, while the girl was in the same room as him.
Optimus-Prime
Curves
Posted 12:43 AM 4/12/08
@Mr.SithNinja: Those are actually some of my best/most successful relationships.
Curves
hockalees
Posted 3:06 AM 4/12/08
KT,
We R going younger in your spot. Sry it didnt work out. Stop by HR.
L8r
Sumner
hockalees
toyotaboy02
Posted 5:38 AM 4/12/08
did this seriously air recently? This sounds like a news report from 10 years ago! Way to keep up with the times network news
toyotaboy02