[Xantar]

You think that's weird? Back when my high school first got wired with e-mail for every student (in my freshman year eight years ago), students would sit in the lab and type e-mails to each other. Some of them would have "Hi, how are you?" "I'm fine" type chats over e-mail while sitting right next to each other.

And some of them would send these e-mails to the whole school even though they were really just talking to each other. Made me want to whip out my knife and take a few fingers (yes, fingersman does inspire me from time to time).

Anyway, newfangled communication fascinates kids. I'll bet that when cell phones started showing up in high schools, bunches of them would SMS while standing next to each other.

But at least PictoChat allows you (theoretically) to convey something that you can't do very well in voice. That is to say sometimes it's easier to just draw rather than describe it in words.