20 Something Moms
7 Texting Habits That Are Highly Annoying
I love texting.
Call me Textasaurus Rex. Or Tyrannosaurus Text. Your choice. But I love
texting. Love it, love it, love it. It's about 4,000 times easier than
making an actual phone call. (Phone call? What's that,
you dinosaur?) It's convenient ("What time r u gonna be home?" "7"). And
it takes the awkwardness out of communicating via cell with people
you're not besties with. (Have you ever been nervous to send a text?
Prolly not.)
But still. There are a few annoying habits people engage in while texting -- and here r 7 of thm.
Using "Y" or "N" for "yes" or "no". I admit, I've done this, but it's f*cking ridiculous. I mean, how hard is it to type "es" or "o"? I know we're all busy, but come on.
The ridiculously long text. Like I said, I'm all about texting, but if what you're writing goes into three long separate texts, just call. It'll probably be quicker.
The text that says, "Just left you a message." You're probably not answering your phone for a reason -- be it you're busy, or you just don't want to. You'll get around to calling back when you get around to calling back. And it's kind of a trick, because if you text back, the person knows you're there and dodged their call.
The million texts in a row before you get a chance to respond. Ever pick up your phone and realize you have, like, 10 texts -- from the same person? That's annoying!
The Emoji-obsessed texter. Emojis are cute, and sometimes, they can get a point across better than actual words can (which is really sad). But when you start sending messages that contain a pill, a girl dancing, a bunny, and a bowl of ramen-looking soup, you have a problem.
Using abbreviations to the point of making your text unreadable. There are the classics: "U" instead of "you"; "idk" instead of "I don't know"; "OMG" for -- what does that even stand for anymore? But then there are the texts that are literally nothing but abbrevs. Stp tht. See? You probably didn't even know what I said there! I said: Stop that!
Having texting be your only form of communication. Texting is convenient, but come on guys, let's not all turn into a bunch of voiceless drones with robo-fast thumbs.
What are your texting pet peeves?
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All of the above! I'm not a text kind of person anyway, so the whole thing annoys me. Lol. But I understand things are different nowadays so I'm adjusting.
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The million texts in a row before you get a chance to respond. Ever pick up your phone and realize you have, like, 10 texts -- from the same person? That's annoying!
This!!!
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I hate it when people text "k" -
Getting pointless txt at 3 am when I'm sleeping. A girl we know txt us "Happy Birthday to ME!!" at 3 am on her birthday, we aren't even friends with her and she sends us pictures of her kids and other crap, all at night.
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"The million texts in a row..." one is spot on!
I have one friend that is neurotic and she'll blow up my phone. I have a newborn (9 days old) and I haven't been as text-active lately because I'm preoccupied (she has a child already, so she understands) but the other day I woke up for a 3am feeding and had 27 texts.
TWENTY FRICKIN SEVEN!!!!
She started telling me about a fight between her and her bf, then progressed to ask about how my newborn is, then asked why I was ignoring her, then asked "hello?!" in five or six messages, then I had two missed calls from her, then more messages. Seriously. Three in the dang morning.
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I hate when people don't capitalize first letters of names, I, etc. Also, appreviations piss me off when they are overused.
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i can't relate. i do all except the "just left you a message part" and the Emojis......i think. i don't even know what a Emojis is.
i do smiley faces. like this:
=D
or this
=)
or this
=p
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When someone responds with "oh" or worse.."o"
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For me it's shortening words. In the era of the old school phones where you had to press 2 4 times to type a "c" the abbreviations made sense. Now...not so much. Almost everyone has a qwerty keyboard. It takes a millisecond more time to type "you" instead of U.
My biggest pet peeve is when someone texts me something like "how r u doin 2day?" I actually filter out potential dates this way.
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Actually, it's more like FB typing pet peeves!!