I call it “stream of consciousness texting”, and it drives me berserk.
It’s ADD, you get a text for every new thing that pops into our heads.
Welcome to the club!
I prefer it over the paragraphs to be honest breaks up the info and helps my shitty eyes read it better
It depends
some people
don’t even send
whole sentences
sometimes
just single words
gotta find
out
where the sentences end
no punctuation either
y’know
so
that’s kinda annoying
Lmao you got me with that one fuck thats annoying
Hey.
Saw your text.
What time?
Oh wait I see it.
Hmmmm.
(Gif of giraffe on roller skates)
I think it’s okay.
Maybe.
I honestly think this is a bit of a generational gap. I grew up in the 90s and remember when “PCS” phones (the kind that started the whole personal cellphone thing for the masses) did not have text messaging. Then, later, some did, others didn’t.
Eventually, every phone and carrier supported SMS. IMO, that’s partly because they charged per message. Shortly after that, some carriers offered a friends and family texting plan, where you could set a small amount of phone numbers (I think 5 was common) that would be unlimited texting, everyone else you texted was some small amount per message.
Pretty quickly that was followed with unlimited texting plans.
Almost immediately after that long form texting, aka MMS was introduced, but it was problematic from day one… You could also send multimedia over MMS, like pictures… They were compressed to hell, but it worked… Sometimes.
Everything went RCS and data driven chats after that.
The key point I’m driving at is that early texting, aka SMS, was limited to a maximum of 160 characters, which might just be able to contain the jist of a sentence. If you grew up before sms became a thing, long form may suit you better than alternatives. If you grew up with SMS, you probably have a learned behavior that text based messages should be pretty short and to the point, so many small-ish messages are probably required.
I am excited to see what happens with those that didn’t have to limit their messages to 160 characters, grow up.
I’m more or less on the cusp of the technology. I was subscribed pretty early on in my youth, so I’m kind of both but also nether. Anyways…
In my experience the biggest reason texts were short wasn’t the limit but the fact that we grew up having to text on a telephone keypad so it took forever.
You became u, etc.
T9 wasn’t all bad.
I remember trying to find a decent T9 keyboard for Android a while ago but failing. Maybe I’ll have another look.
Good luck
I text multiple paragraph texts back to back over and over again. I’m told even being that verbose I’m still completely incomprehensible most of the time.
I
Sometimes
Run
Into
People
Who
Text
Like
This
And
My
God
Is
It
Annoying!
😬
Agree
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Or those who text in pentameter’s beat.
I hate when people text poetically
Can we all agree that people that send voice notes for no good reason are the worst?
No I don’t want to find some time to sit through your 5 minute ramble.
Then imagine this: people who send bursts of extremely short voice messages, like 1 to 3 seconds. For anything