Rec | TEXTING LIKE AN OLD PERSON

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by which I mean rambling on and on, saying the entirety of what you’ve got to say even if it makes you self conscious to see your own words surrounded by all these pithy messages liberally sprinkled with emojis and abbreviations. I’m not a digital native and I am not pretending to be one I don’t mean the thing where you write a whole greeting and sign off at the end altho that’s cute too

@philipc

Feb 29, 2024

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being bad at texting

I’m not bad at texting I’m just trying to recreate a feeling similar to sending u a letter .. (I am just a bad texter)

@dustingcity

Mar 11, 2024

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Repeated exposure over and over again

I’ve been the worst at texting throughout my entire life and even still part of me resents the idea that I should be available for constant communication (but I tell her to shut up because I do actually enjoy connecting with my friends all of whom live far away). I had a new friend who would text me constantly and at first I thought it was annoying but eventually I got used to it (then I went back to thinking it was really annoying but that was a her being annoying problem). I became really good at texting back and now I’m the person who assaults my friends who tell me they want to get better at texting with regular text messages. I stopped interacting with my friends as much through our weird obscure social media app and started just texting them directly. When I think about someone or if there’s something I think they need to hear from me I text them! I’m also in a very high-volume group chat with two of my best friends. It’s something that I think only gets better with constant practice and action and intention! I also think it’s worth just setting clear boundaries around text communication that sometimes or even oftentimes you are not going to respond right away. People know that I’m pretty busy and I’ll talk to them when I have time. And I make good use of heart/thumbs up/exclamation point reacts to show that I’m paying attention without replying ASAP. And try schedule sending texts if you don’t want to text right away and have to deal with more replies lol! Also sometimes if I don’t feel like typing I send my friends voice messages and we often end up in a chain of voice messages from there like role playing executives and employees at a factory in the Deep South that explodes and devastates the town and then being the newscasters covering the story and then being waitresses and patrons at Merlotte’s from True Blood gossiping about it. Or whatever.

@taterhole

Oct 19, 2024

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We don’t write letters anymore so I think that texting is the closest we have to regular written communication (which I actually value and enjoy in moderation). I see and feel the downsides to texting too much. And I have done a lot of work on responding to people slower and taking more thought and time into it. With this said, I have noticed that many of my friends will initiate conversations with me only to never respond. I think the ways you communicate can be important examples of how you’re considering your loved ones.