I LOOOVE text messaging but I'm with you on the others! Have refused mobile phones with internet access and games on them - er? why? it's a phone!
My Gran was funny when text messaging first came in - she said it was just like sending a telegram but without the inconvenience of opening the door and tipping the boy!
I have tried to train all my friends and family to text first and then we can have a phone conversation if it is convenient, and for times and addresses and directions and shopping lists etc. to come in by text message so that they are recorded somewhere, and recorded somewhere that is on my person when the information is needed!
My six year old doean't have any game consoles either ... he's played with them at friends houses and I don't doubt that he'd love one, but we have barely enough time for him to play the computer games we have, or some days even to play with his physical toys, so I'm holding off from getting any portable consoles.
(Though I do admit to being tempted when we have long journeys to do ... or waits in a restaurant or for an appointment ... though the servers in the last posh restaurant were much more amused, friendly and chatty, at a table covered in plastic dinosaurs than they would have been by a kid plugged into a console! especially as the 37 year old godfather was fighting over the triceratops!)
Helen