Since updating to ios7, i'm not receiving texts messages from certain people. Help!

I have an iphone 4s and I recently updated to ios7. I've noticed that I can't receive text messages from certain people. I went into settings>messages and made sure that imessage was turned on. I noticed that directly under that was "waiting for activation". I clicked on "use your apple ID for messages" then logged in......it responded with "please check your network connections". That's confusing because I have full bars. Is there something that I'm missing

Yes, your iMessage is not activated yet. Turn it off, wait a short period and turn it back on. You should wait 24 hours before getting overly concerned about it still waiting for activation. Check this support document http://support.apple.com/kb/TS4268

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