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Perhaps this has happened to you girls.  And guys, heads up. You meet a guy on a dating site or app, you chat there and hit it off, he asks for your number and you give it to him, you text a few times, and then he trails off and you never hear from him again.  You didn’t send him an unflattering pic or give him any reason to change his mind, but there’s no follow-through on that happy hour he prom

My mom got my dad an iPhone for Father’s Day, and my first text from Dad arrived Monday. He needed a day or so to figure out how to text on this “newfangled thing,” but once he figured it out he didn’t mess around with just words. He sent me a pic! Of my grandma’s 1980-something Buick. And he didn’t say a word about it, just the pic. This is going to be a wild texting adventure with Pop.

Do you ever feel like you're not using your full emoticon potential?  I do. To emote in text and email, I usually default to the quick and easy ones like these: :) ;) :-D ;-) Everyone else seems so much better at cyber emoting!  So I decided to do a little research to get better with the cyber winks, and I decided to share what I found.  You may be all over these already.

It's usually so much easier to text someone rather than pick up the phone and call. To your sweetie: "Could you grab some wine on the way home?"  It takes a minute when actually dialing and calling might take five, because your spouse things of a hundred other things to tell you while you're on the phone.  And hopefully the reply is a simple, "Yep!  ;-)" What about emergencies?