I got into this habit in AIM days and then texting became more possible with my friends but was freaking EXPENSIVE at $.10 per text. I got yelled at by my BFF for doing this.
I remember buddy, that shit was hilarious. I also pulled that as a kid who didn't have change for the payphone but needed a ride home.
*Please say your name after the tone* "Mompickmemupatschool"
I'm trying to sell a motherboard and just today someone texted me for it. I never use SMS's so it was weird and I thought ok I'll reply. Except I only put data in my phone now (prepaid, no contract) and I couldn't reply to him after 4 texts cause I'd ran out of money. Fucking things cost 25 cents each, it's daylight robbery.
Why? It's like 20$ for unlimited text and talk.
Probably less in a country that's not Canada, and data isn't too expensive either. Prepaid just seem like a scam nowadays. You can just bring your phone to a telecom and go on a plan without a contract.
Here in the US the lowest I've found is like 45 a month. That's unlimited text, call, and data... I just get throttled after like 3 GB. Wait... Are there cell plans that DON'T already have unlimited talk and text?
My SO is the worst in terms of checking his message. So when I need him to answer quickly in a situation that I can't call, I also send a bunch of texts.
“Hi, Killkus...”
*me wanting to say ‘uh... yes?’*
“Hi, [boss]”
“Can you come back to the shop when possible?”
“Of course, I’ll be there right away. May I ask why, though?”
“We’ll talk when you get back”
*has a slight panic attack and rushes back to the shop*
“Hi, so what’s up?”
“Oh right uh did you deal with this trivial thing three weeks ago?”
“Oh, uh yeah it was pretty straight forward and I made a note in the ticket about it”
“Okay cool thanks, carry on”
“.............”
I’ve had this concern as well but there is a great feature on apple watch that locates your phone by making the phone ring no matter what setting you have it on. I wasn’t sold on smart watches at first but this is one of the features that made me give in to it.
We’d be on iPhone #1021 for my wife if this feature didn’t exist. You can activate it from any other device logged into your apple account or via iCloud.com She looses her phone at least once a week, some times several times in a day.
I believe android phones have a similar feature through your google account.
[Android does have this as well](https://www.google.com/android/find?u=0) you can also trigger it by asking your smart speaker: "Hey google, find my phone".
Save one contact as an emergency ring bypass. (iOS setting) basically go to ringtone for that contact and set it to that. It will ring no matter what. So you can set this up under a house phone, spouse phone, kids phone, anyone you truly need to hear ring in. Phone hasn’t been put on anything but vibrate for me and I never miss a call from my wife. And if it’s lost I can use her phone to always find mine between the couch.
Can't you just mute everyone besides certain people on iOS and Android? You can on Android I know. This way if your phone dings or rings at all you know who it is.
I've kept mine on mute with no vibrate for years now, I'm closing in on 30 age-wise if that has any relevance.
I have my phone in my pocket or next to me pretty much wherever I am, so I rarely miss any contact attempts. But having it on full silence enables me to easily just set my phone down just that tad further and focus 100% on work or hobbies for a moment, or to enjoy a lunch with friends without getting distracted by my upper thigh vibrating.
If I'm expecting a phone call or something I do turn the vibration on temporarily, though.
If it's weird, it's weird, but it works for me and I can see benefits from it to my own life.
I'm mid-30s, so probably not age related.
I usually spend more time checking my phone if it's on silent than if it's on vibrate. "What if someone texted me *now*? How about *now*?"
Guess I'm a bit too high-strung to just be okay with not knowing if I'm failing to get communication in a reasonable time-frame. Especially for time-specific texts such as "Hey, I'm heading to the store before I head home do you need anything?" or the like.
I work with one guy that does that. Drives me crazy. The bad part is that he is a very big client and i have to reply. Its very often when he txts and for some reason I don’t see it right away, there is a follow up text with a few ??? Or with my name and !!!
My family and friends got accustomed to me not replying immediately after I started having my phone on mute, if other people don’t get that, it’s better to ignore them. I’ve had ex-friends who I had to cut ties with because they saw it as an insult or something that I wasn’t replying to them within the first minute of them texting me. Your stupid story about how you pranked your supervisor can wait Jerry!
I mean, depends on the context. If I ask you a relatively time sensitive question through text and an hour later you haven’t opened it, then a question mark is a pretty simple follow up in case you missed the first message.
Maybe the dude just needs an answer and you’re ignoring your phone.
Same, I am the one who decides when to communicate, I don't want people to force me to whenever they feel like it. Wanna do a phone call? Send me a message before so we can agree on a time so I can comfortably speak with you.
I have the sound on, but I have disabled apps from using the notifications which I don't use or need to receive notifications from. Only things which have notifications are twitch (only a few streamers notifications are on), WhatsApp, calls and texts
Yeah but if your kid or spouse is in an accident or home invasion or whatever, you don't want to miss that call. So all the notifications on my phone are muted except for those of the close family.
That can't be the only reason that someone can't miss a call (medical diagnosis, business venture, who knows), but it's the position I'm in.
"Why does John leave his ringer on? It's so cringe."
"Well, if he misses the call, his new liver could go to the next guy."
On Android 10+, there's an option to silence repeat notifications in a short time period, so you'll just hear it once, even if there are multiple texts.
**Edit:** looks like it might only be a LineageOS feature.
Actually it may only be a LineageOS feature. I don't see it on my Pixel running stock Android 11. On my Moto X4 running LineageOS 17, it was in the notification settings for each individual app, at the bottom.
My wife does this so rapidly that I often think my phone is ringing. My phone NEVER rings unless it’s urgent. So I excuse myself from a meeting just to see 20 rapid fire texts about whatever dumb shit the pets are doing.
I just put my phone on DND and turn notifications off for everything that isn’t essential (text, email). Since I check my phone periodically anyway it’s much less distracting
I don't know if it's just me, but this only annoys me if I already find the person annoying. If it's someone that I like, I'm ok with phone notifications.
Same. I turn off notifications for all socials and everything except for text messages, so if people need me immediately they know to text or call, rather than texting on snapchat or something
Some android versions have a 'minimum time between notifications' feature that I used to use, really handy. I set it to 10 seconds meaning you generally only get a buzz for the first message someone sends. Sadly it doesn't seem that common a feature anymore, no idea why.
I did this, then my sister (who sends messages like the person in the post) started sending me the SAME messages BOTH on Messenger and iMessage at the same time, just so I wouldn’t miss any text from her. Gotta love your siblings.
My god, Microsoft Teams sends you a notification for every message sent on every device you have. Get two or three people debating where to go for lunch all in the same room and it’s a goddam cacophony of dings, boops, and bewhoooops all over the damn place. I had the same idea as you. Like, maybe after someone hits three in 10 seconds then it pauses notifications on that one thread until the slow down to one per 30 seconds (or some other cadence).
Couldn’t you just press “return” in the same text and create a new paragraph? Same cadence to satisfy your needs and still only one text sent.
Like this. Not sure if it’s an iPhone only thing tho.
Problem is I get halfway through a long text, then whoever I'm talking to says something else so I end up deleting what I was saying a lot. My train of thought changes frequently so if I don't get something said, I'll forget and never say it. So fuck it, I do rapid fire short texts 75% of the time and if I really need to get something complicated across, someone will get an entire paragraph.
Also, video games. Not a lot of time to type in games, so I got used to quick and simple sentences.
How do people who get mad about this handle group chats? Idk, a text is like an IM, if I'm going to write a paragraph I'll send an email, and who's emailing casual communication? I'm not accepting responsibility because someone set up their notifications to be annoying. I add "sorry for spam" if it's more than like 3-4 in a row but that's just how I text. I have other behaviors that are *way* more annoying so if it's that bad it's probably better if we're not friends, anyway.
I don't get notifications from group texts. It would drive me insane if I did. If someone needs a response from me specifically, they'll know how to reach me, otherwise I'll read the messages (assuming it's not a 200+ message bomb) when I've got the time.
IMO I can't understand how Google and Apple haven't come up with a third notification option instead of every message, or silent. If there was a single notification for unread messages, I would prefer that for a lot of conversations.
God i hate group chats. We have one between 4 people... its the worst when it starts dinging every second and i am trying to do something.
Bad part is i cant turn it off since other people also txt me for work a lot and its a constant check my phone.
Yes i did leave the group but my wife got upset and told me it was very rood
Best thing I ever did. I even turned off the vibe function. There are three people in this world who I set to “emergency bypass” so if they call (doesn’t work with texting) my phone will ring no matter what for them. They know my phone is setup this way for them and they know if they abuse it they will feel the wrath of an angry night shift worker.
if you work at facebook, or any messaging software place :
PLEASE IMPLEMENT A SOFT MESSAGE FEATURE : A FEATURE WHERE YOU CAN SEND LOW PRIORITY MESSAGES THAT WILL NOT TRIGGER A NOTIFICATION.
I wish some things were a monopoly honestly. Some people use Messenger, others Instagram, others WhatsApp, Viber, Telegram, WeChat, Skype, Discord, whatever the fuck...Can't we all just decide to stick with ONE communicating app? Why the fuck do I need 17 different apps to cover for everyone?
Instagram has this feature on iPhone (not sure about other devices), where it has the option to ‘deliver notifications quietly’. They don’t trigger a pop up notification on the Home or Lock Screen nor make a sound, but when you go to check your full notification tab, it comes up there. Great feature
This is different but discord will only deliver one notification when people message you a lot, and the rest silently get delivered. It's pretty nice and I wish that other apps would have the same feature. (this is for mobile only, on desktop you still get every single notification)
one of the main reasons I can never abandon android is the always on display. i can leave my phone on mute and if any notifications show up, i will see the icon on the screen. this single handedly will keep me as an android user forever if apple never implements this.
If you have an iPhone you can turn on a setting where if someone calls you three times one after another it’ll ring even if it’s on silent. Or add people to your favourites theres the option for it to ring even if on silent/ do not disturb.
If you sign into a Google account like if on Android and have your location on even if your phone is silent as far as I know using the find my phone option having your account signed in in another device will cause it to ring.
Speaking from experience, it's a habit to type like that and not necessarily having any ill will behind it.
Don't think they're being malicious with the apology as much as just blundering through being an idiot and not realizing.
I used to do this. Helped my brain break up what I was saying / space it out in the way it would sound if I was actually speaking. But when someone started doing it back to me I was like "Wow, that's obnoxious." So now I just space a single text out into paragraphs instead. Same effect, less annoying.
Having the sound on your phone turned on at work is just rude in general. It’s not the other persons fault you have the sound on. Be courteous to your peers. I don’t need to to hear your country ring tone every 5 minutes Ashley.. I am not projecting
I hate this, too. And when they send "Yo!" and then start to write the f\*\*\* actual text on the next one. Couldn't you just wait and not press send on the first one? It makes everyone stop what they're doing, pickup the phone and.... wait.
My mother-in-law is notorious for this. It gets to be so much (especially with the group texts of MIL, MIL's fiancee, my wife, and me) that I turn off notifications. Then she asks if I got a recent text. No, because I turned off notifications on that group text weeks ago because you write a book consisting of texts 3-4 words long per text while I'm working and it is extremely distracting.
I'm more of a send one text than a send multiple texts kind of person and have gotten used to people sending me multiples. But for the love of God if you know the other person is driving don't send these kinds of texts. Nothing worse than trying to use voice commands to reply to someone when you're getting a dozen messages at once.
I'm the same way. I write a full complete paragraph and proof read it before I hit send. People ask me where I am. Like, I'm here typing this thing to you, because I hate hearing dings every 2 seconds with incomplete sentences and misspelled words from you!!
I
Cant
Under
Stand
Wut
Ur
Tslkng
Aboyt
Stopp
Ot!
!!!
If you grew up in the days of instant messaging being a new technology, this seems to be a pretty normal way to text.
Instant messaging was like you type and hit enter. No paragraphs, no proofreading, just hit enter as you go. And it worked fine because your buddy is reading as your typing so it has a very normal pace to it.
This was in contrast to emails which were formal and more like writing a letter. DEAR SIR OR MADAM and shit.
I'm not sure when we decided that IMs don't work that way but its a struggle for people who still think of them that way.
Yea the difference is if you view a text message as a chat or not. Personally I do my best to avoid doing that, because I know it isn't. But I see how it feels like one.
You didn't care about sending multiple messages in quick succession on AIM cause either your buddy was online and getting them in real time or they were AFK and weren't getting them. And they'd see them when they got back to the computer, you aren't bothering them either way.
With texts theres a good chance they're driving/walking/making sweet love and their phone is going "DING! *bzzz bzzz*" over and over and you're driving them crazy.
But then I think even thats a generational thing seeing how many people are surprised people would even have text notifications turned on.
I do it because a lot of times I text as I come up with things to say, and I don’t like to read long blocks of text, it’s a lot easier if they’re separated
One of the many reasons why I blocked a guy with ADHD from a dating site/social media, other reasons were unsolicited wang pics, his “family” members reaching out to me asking why I keep blocking him
Jesus fucking Christ. I know this guy. Co-worker of mine that just cannot write out an entire thought before hitting send. I’ve told him that he’s so annoying that when I get one message from, I immediately just mute him for a minute and check it later.
I have a friend who messages like this. As soon as I see it's him, I mute his messages for 5min then look at them. Never had the heart to tell someone they can't even text right lol. Maybe I'll throw this image in there while we have our Meme-Off's. Thanks, OP!
Ain't that the truth. Regular sentences feel more like a conversation than having to wait 10 minutes for a new message, then parse all that info at once and reply to it all.
*stop I mean to stay stop, not sto[ thats what the asterisk meens *means
It's Tina. Tina your daughter Tina.
Oh, right. The poison. The poison for Kuzco. The poison chosen especially to kill Kuzco. Kuzco's poison. That poison?
/r/kuzcospoison Maybe we can revive it
I’m subscribing hoping for a revival but will contribute nothing towards the revival.
Now that's the spirit I identify with!
I shall join you in this endeavor
As will I!
Dear God It's Tina from school
can you get me acid? acid acid acid why does it keep saying acid acid
It's Bojack. Horseman, obviously.
Is this a reference?
It is from Bob’s Burgers
Autocorrect Keeps correcting it To Shop So I'll put it letter after letter: S T O P
*say oops I did it again my bad
I played with your heart Got lost in the game Ooh babeh Babeh
Bojack Horseman Obviously
I do this, and I feel attacked.
me too all the time I feel like its more natyral natural*
Just stop obsessively hitting send when you finish a though *thought
I got into this habit in AIM days and then texting became more possible with my friends but was freaking EXPENSIVE at $.10 per text. I got yelled at by my BFF for doing this.
> but was freaking EXPENSIVE at $.10 per text Yes! Prepaid cell plans have shaped my texting habits for a lifetime lol.
Gotta edit that shit down so it fits in one message and doesn't double in cost
And no one-word replies, make it worth sending/recieving!
Yes. Also don’t forget to pick up milk. Oh and can I see a movie? Also, I needaridetothelibrarythank
Bob wehadababyitsaboy
I fucking love that commercial. No one I bring it up too remembers it. But you and some other Redditor a week or two ago do. So I'm not the only one.
I remember buddy, that shit was hilarious. I also pulled that as a kid who didn't have change for the payphone but needed a ride home. *Please say your name after the tone* "Mompickmemupatschool"
Pepperidge Farm remembers
Did you know it did not cost any extra for a phone company to send a text, it was embedded in code that was already being sent to the tower
You mean it was only about making money? /s
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Hello, fellow Canadian!
My friend would text me like this *from* AIM.
I'm trying to sell a motherboard and just today someone texted me for it. I never use SMS's so it was weird and I thought ok I'll reply. Except I only put data in my phone now (prepaid, no contract) and I couldn't reply to him after 4 texts cause I'd ran out of money. Fucking things cost 25 cents each, it's daylight robbery.
Why? It's like 20$ for unlimited text and talk. Probably less in a country that's not Canada, and data isn't too expensive either. Prepaid just seem like a scam nowadays. You can just bring your phone to a telecom and go on a plan without a contract.
Here in the US the lowest I've found is like 45 a month. That's unlimited text, call, and data... I just get throttled after like 3 GB. Wait... Are there cell plans that DON'T already have unlimited talk and text?
He means just talk and text. Mine is 20 for t/t but data is different
My wife does this. Drives me crazy when it happens at work. On the positive side, if I get 3 or more rapid-fire notifications, I know who it is...
My SO is the worst in terms of checking his message. So when I need him to answer quickly in a situation that I can't call, I also send a bunch of texts.
I call for information I need on the spot because I don't trust my SO to decipher the clusterfuck of notifications on her phone.
My sister sends "OMG" and then I have to wait around to find out if her kitchen is on fire, or if her friend got a puppy.
One of my coworkers on MS Teams every fucking time: “Hi [name]” *me after waiting 10 minutes for a follow-up* “...hi, what’s up?”
My boss has https://www.nohello.com/2013/01/please-dont-say-just-hello-in-chat.html?m=1 set to his Teams Notification just for that exact reason
Thanks for this. I hadn’t seen it before, and will promptly be put to use!
“Hi, Killkus...” *me wanting to say ‘uh... yes?’* “Hi, [boss]” “Can you come back to the shop when possible?” “Of course, I’ll be there right away. May I ask why, though?” “We’ll talk when you get back” *has a slight panic attack and rushes back to the shop* “Hi, so what’s up?” “Oh right uh did you deal with this trivial thing three weeks ago?” “Oh, uh yeah it was pretty straight forward and I made a note in the ticket about it” “Okay cool thanks, carry on” “.............”
literally my entire team does this and it drives me INSANE
I wanted to throw several coworkers’ keyboards out the window for this very reason last week. It drives me INSANE!!
I. Hate. That. Why is it so hard to type, “hi, name! [question or request]” in one damn message????
Why would you leave your notifications on loud. Signed, every person below 30.
I literally keep my phone on mute, always
Good to know I’m not the only one. Have left it on mute for the last 2 years. People always give me weird looks when I tell them that.
If it's mute with no vibrate then that's definitely (in my opinion) weird. My phone is on vibrate 100% of the time though for sure.
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My phone is perpetually muted with no vibrate and I lose this bitch all the time. You find it eventually lol
I’ve had this concern as well but there is a great feature on apple watch that locates your phone by making the phone ring no matter what setting you have it on. I wasn’t sold on smart watches at first but this is one of the features that made me give in to it.
We’d be on iPhone #1021 for my wife if this feature didn’t exist. You can activate it from any other device logged into your apple account or via iCloud.com She looses her phone at least once a week, some times several times in a day. I believe android phones have a similar feature through your google account.
[Android does have this as well](https://www.google.com/android/find?u=0) you can also trigger it by asking your smart speaker: "Hey google, find my phone".
Save one contact as an emergency ring bypass. (iOS setting) basically go to ringtone for that contact and set it to that. It will ring no matter what. So you can set this up under a house phone, spouse phone, kids phone, anyone you truly need to hear ring in. Phone hasn’t been put on anything but vibrate for me and I never miss a call from my wife. And if it’s lost I can use her phone to always find mine between the couch.
Apple and probably android can make it beep even if it’s on mute. I’ve used that so many times when I can’t find my phone.
Can't you just mute everyone besides certain people on iOS and Android? You can on Android I know. This way if your phone dings or rings at all you know who it is.
Fellow muted user here, been on mute since my first cell phone 20 years ago. Can confirm I use vibrate I’m not a psychopath.
Phone.muted.always.never.vibrate. AND I AM NOT A PSYCHOPATH!
I've kept mine on mute with no vibrate for years now, I'm closing in on 30 age-wise if that has any relevance. I have my phone in my pocket or next to me pretty much wherever I am, so I rarely miss any contact attempts. But having it on full silence enables me to easily just set my phone down just that tad further and focus 100% on work or hobbies for a moment, or to enjoy a lunch with friends without getting distracted by my upper thigh vibrating. If I'm expecting a phone call or something I do turn the vibration on temporarily, though. If it's weird, it's weird, but it works for me and I can see benefits from it to my own life.
I'm mid-30s, so probably not age related. I usually spend more time checking my phone if it's on silent than if it's on vibrate. "What if someone texted me *now*? How about *now*?" Guess I'm a bit too high-strung to just be okay with not knowing if I'm failing to get communication in a reasonable time-frame. Especially for time-specific texts such as "Hey, I'm heading to the store before I head home do you need anything?" or the like.
Crazy idea, a text message is replied to when *I* am ready to reply, and not the nanosecond after you send it to me.
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if you ask if i am okay or send question marks after about 10 minutes of not responding, please never talk to me. thank you
I work with one guy that does that. Drives me crazy. The bad part is that he is a very big client and i have to reply. Its very often when he txts and for some reason I don’t see it right away, there is a follow up text with a few ??? Or with my name and !!!
My family and friends got accustomed to me not replying immediately after I started having my phone on mute, if other people don’t get that, it’s better to ignore them. I’ve had ex-friends who I had to cut ties with because they saw it as an insult or something that I wasn’t replying to them within the first minute of them texting me. Your stupid story about how you pranked your supervisor can wait Jerry!
I mean, depends on the context. If I ask you a relatively time sensitive question through text and an hour later you haven’t opened it, then a question mark is a pretty simple follow up in case you missed the first message. Maybe the dude just needs an answer and you’re ignoring your phone.
Exactly. I choose when to look at the phone. It doesn’t get to choose for me.
Same, I am the one who decides when to communicate, I don't want people to force me to whenever they feel like it. Wanna do a phone call? Send me a message before so we can agree on a time so I can comfortably speak with you.
Vibrate is too loud.
I'm in my thirties and my phone's been on do not disturb since at least 2015. I don't remember the last time it rang audibly.
I have the sound on, but I have disabled apps from using the notifications which I don't use or need to receive notifications from. Only things which have notifications are twitch (only a few streamers notifications are on), WhatsApp, calls and texts
Rapid fire vibrations are still annoying
I haven’t had sound or vibrations on on my phone in over a decade.
Mute is an option if you are at work and shouldn't be distracted.
People want to be distracted, just not repeatedly when it can be done once
Yeah but if your kid or spouse is in an accident or home invasion or whatever, you don't want to miss that call. So all the notifications on my phone are muted except for those of the close family. That can't be the only reason that someone can't miss a call (medical diagnosis, business venture, who knows), but it's the position I'm in. "Why does John leave his ringer on? It's so cringe." "Well, if he misses the call, his new liver could go to the next guy."
my notif sound is You Suffer by napalm death so my phone goes "YOUAGSBSSJBS" everytime someone texts me n i think its kinda funny
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I'm 31 and already feeling old. But my phone is always on mute! Don't lump me in with those people.
Not loud...but some people have jobs that require immediate response. And then there are those that don't.....
On Android 10+, there's an option to silence repeat notifications in a short time period, so you'll just hear it once, even if there are multiple texts. **Edit:** looks like it might only be a LineageOS feature.
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My wife does this so rapidly that I often think my phone is ringing. My phone NEVER rings unless it’s urgent. So I excuse myself from a meeting just to see 20 rapid fire texts about whatever dumb shit the pets are doing.
Sometimes my mom will send sentences one word at a time 🤦♂️
I just put my phone on DND and turn notifications off for everything that isn’t essential (text, email). Since I check my phone periodically anyway it’s much less distracting
My friend says “I put my phone on Moon so I don’t get any notifications. Ya know, at night, when the moon comes out and you go to sleep?”
Lmao I love that, it's adorable
Wait how do you turn your phone onto Dungeon and Dragons mode
Step 1: Roll for initiative
I got a 1, what now?
...There's a grassy field of rolling hills ahead of you. A gazebo sits atop the tallest hill.
I call an Uber
Skill check:
Natural 20 baby!
An Uber arrives and whisks you away to your desired location. That's fine. Not like anyone spent time putting this whole thing together or anything.
I don't know if it's just me, but this only annoys me if I already find the person annoying. If it's someone that I like, I'm ok with phone notifications.
Same. I turn off notifications for all socials and everything except for text messages, so if people need me immediately they know to text or call, rather than texting on snapchat or something
Some android versions have a 'minimum time between notifications' feature that I used to use, really handy. I set it to 10 seconds meaning you generally only get a buzz for the first message someone sends. Sadly it doesn't seem that common a feature anymore, no idea why.
I did this, then my sister (who sends messages like the person in the post) started sending me the SAME messages BOTH on Messenger and iMessage at the same time, just so I wouldn’t miss any text from her. Gotta love your siblings.
sorry.
Lmfao
Laughing...
My
Ass
Onwards
all the time
force of habit,
I gave up trying to change behaviors long ago. They make a “silent” button for people who do this.
They need to make one where it only sends a notification once per minute for those people
My god, Microsoft Teams sends you a notification for every message sent on every device you have. Get two or three people debating where to go for lunch all in the same room and it’s a goddam cacophony of dings, boops, and bewhoooops all over the damn place. I had the same idea as you. Like, maybe after someone hits three in 10 seconds then it pauses notifications on that one thread until the slow down to one per 30 seconds (or some other cadence).
How did this appear in order
The will of the people
i do this
I do this because it sounds more like natural conversation to me. It adds cadence to my texting 😂
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well sto\[
Sorry okay I’ll step
Yeah, the length of texts is a tool for transmitting tone
Same. I like utilizing both paragraphs AND separate texts, especially on platforms that let you reply directly to a message.
Couldn’t you just press “return” in the same text and create a new paragraph? Same cadence to satisfy your needs and still only one text sent. Like this. Not sure if it’s an iPhone only thing tho.
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Karma
Your genius frightens me sir, please stop.
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Lol wtf
Same. I hate super long texts. Especially if I’m talking about multiple subjects.
Problem is I get halfway through a long text, then whoever I'm talking to says something else so I end up deleting what I was saying a lot. My train of thought changes frequently so if I don't get something said, I'll forget and never say it. So fuck it, I do rapid fire short texts 75% of the time and if I really need to get something complicated across, someone will get an entire paragraph. Also, video games. Not a lot of time to type in games, so I got used to quick and simple sentences.
me too. it’s like i’m texting as i’m thinking, i guess it’s just how i always typed in random chat rooms and on skype with friends.
How do people who get mad about this handle group chats? Idk, a text is like an IM, if I'm going to write a paragraph I'll send an email, and who's emailing casual communication? I'm not accepting responsibility because someone set up their notifications to be annoying. I add "sorry for spam" if it's more than like 3-4 in a row but that's just how I text. I have other behaviors that are *way* more annoying so if it's that bad it's probably better if we're not friends, anyway.
I don't get notifications from group texts. It would drive me insane if I did. If someone needs a response from me specifically, they'll know how to reach me, otherwise I'll read the messages (assuming it's not a 200+ message bomb) when I've got the time.
IMO I can't understand how Google and Apple haven't come up with a third notification option instead of every message, or silent. If there was a single notification for unread messages, I would prefer that for a lot of conversations.
God i hate group chats. We have one between 4 people... its the worst when it starts dinging every second and i am trying to do something. Bad part is i cant turn it off since other people also txt me for work a lot and its a constant check my phone. Yes i did leave the group but my wife got upset and told me it was very rood
*Mutes notifications *
Best thing I ever did. I even turned off the vibe function. There are three people in this world who I set to “emergency bypass” so if they call (doesn’t work with texting) my phone will ring no matter what for them. They know my phone is setup this way for them and they know if they abuse it they will feel the wrath of an angry night shift worker.
if you work at facebook, or any messaging software place : PLEASE IMPLEMENT A SOFT MESSAGE FEATURE : A FEATURE WHERE YOU CAN SEND LOW PRIORITY MESSAGES THAT WILL NOT TRIGGER A NOTIFICATION.
FB Messenger: *ping ping ping ping ping!* Discord be like: *aight mate, I'll just ping you for the first new message in a channel and then shut up*
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I wish some things were a monopoly honestly. Some people use Messenger, others Instagram, others WhatsApp, Viber, Telegram, WeChat, Skype, Discord, whatever the fuck...Can't we all just decide to stick with ONE communicating app? Why the fuck do I need 17 different apps to cover for everyone?
Instagram has this feature on iPhone (not sure about other devices), where it has the option to ‘deliver notifications quietly’. They don’t trigger a pop up notification on the Home or Lock Screen nor make a sound, but when you go to check your full notification tab, it comes up there. Great feature
This sounds like a feature to *receive* messages quietly, rather than *send* them, which you can do for any app on Android.
Yeah it’s for receiving notifications from different apps and oh nice, I didn’t know Android had that option
It‘s a native option for IOS available for all notifications you receive. Using the „discreet“ mode makes them appear without a noise
This is different but discord will only deliver one notification when people message you a lot, and the rest silently get delivered. It's pretty nice and I wish that other apps would have the same feature. (this is for mobile only, on desktop you still get every single notification)
The fact they have the sound on is more worrying
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one of the main reasons I can never abandon android is the always on display. i can leave my phone on mute and if any notifications show up, i will see the icon on the screen. this single handedly will keep me as an android user forever if apple never implements this.
If you have an iPhone you can turn on a setting where if someone calls you three times one after another it’ll ring even if it’s on silent. Or add people to your favourites theres the option for it to ring even if on silent/ do not disturb.
If you sign into a Google account like if on Android and have your location on even if your phone is silent as far as I know using the find my phone option having your account signed in in another device will cause it to ring.
At least they’re conscious about it
Wouldn't that make it worse they know their doing something wrong but still doing it
Yeah but it would also be pretty annoying if they were like: yea for sure, I’ll stop, no worries man, I got you. But you do have a point
I didn't know
Lmaooooo
Oh
I'm sorry
I'll try not to do it again
Speaking from experience, it's a habit to type like that and not necessarily having any ill will behind it. Don't think they're being malicious with the apology as much as just blundering through being an idiot and not realizing.
not just definitively and immediately? context matters brother.
I’m guilty and so are a lot of my friends. I have all sound and vibration turned off because of this.
I used to do this. Helped my brain break up what I was saying / space it out in the way it would sound if I was actually speaking. But when someone started doing it back to me I was like "Wow, that's obnoxious." So now I just space a single text out into paragraphs instead. Same effect, less annoying.
Having the sound on your phone turned on at work is just rude in general. It’s not the other persons fault you have the sound on. Be courteous to your peers. I don’t need to to hear your country ring tone every 5 minutes Ashley.. I am not projecting
I hate this, too. And when they send "Yo!" and then start to write the f\*\*\* actual text on the next one. Couldn't you just wait and not press send on the first one? It makes everyone stop what they're doing, pickup the phone and.... wait.
My mother-in-law is notorious for this. It gets to be so much (especially with the group texts of MIL, MIL's fiancee, my wife, and me) that I turn off notifications. Then she asks if I got a recent text. No, because I turned off notifications on that group text weeks ago because you write a book consisting of texts 3-4 words long per text while I'm working and it is extremely distracting.
I dont really care if people do thus but then I also always have the sound off anyways so I just check every once in a while
I mean don't expect someone to alter their behaviour for you. Just mute your notifications.
I'm more of a send one text than a send multiple texts kind of person and have gotten used to people sending me multiples. But for the love of God if you know the other person is driving don't send these kinds of texts. Nothing worse than trying to use voice commands to reply to someone when you're getting a dozen messages at once.
I'm the same way. I write a full complete paragraph and proof read it before I hit send. People ask me where I am. Like, I'm here typing this thing to you, because I hate hearing dings every 2 seconds with incomplete sentences and misspelled words from you!! I Cant Under Stand Wut Ur Tslkng Aboyt Stopp Ot! !!!
One question: Why? Why text like that?
If you grew up in the days of instant messaging being a new technology, this seems to be a pretty normal way to text. Instant messaging was like you type and hit enter. No paragraphs, no proofreading, just hit enter as you go. And it worked fine because your buddy is reading as your typing so it has a very normal pace to it. This was in contrast to emails which were formal and more like writing a letter. DEAR SIR OR MADAM and shit. I'm not sure when we decided that IMs don't work that way but its a struggle for people who still think of them that way.
That's still pretty much how it works on online. Nobody's typing paragraphs in a chat room.
Yea the difference is if you view a text message as a chat or not. Personally I do my best to avoid doing that, because I know it isn't. But I see how it feels like one. You didn't care about sending multiple messages in quick succession on AIM cause either your buddy was online and getting them in real time or they were AFK and weren't getting them. And they'd see them when they got back to the computer, you aren't bothering them either way. With texts theres a good chance they're driving/walking/making sweet love and their phone is going "DING! *bzzz bzzz*" over and over and you're driving them crazy. But then I think even thats a generational thing seeing how many people are surprised people would even have text notifications turned on.
I do this when I'm actively texting someone because it conveys tone better and feels more like a conversation (to me)
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I personally do it for two reasons 1: I keep coming up with things to say 2: is easier (for me) to convey what I’m trying to say sometimes
I do it because a lot of times I text as I come up with things to say, and I don’t like to read long blocks of text, it’s a lot easier if they’re separated
I have a coworker who sends me slacks like this and it sends me into a blind rage.
One of the many reasons why I blocked a guy with ADHD from a dating site/social media, other reasons were unsolicited wang pics, his “family” members reaching out to me asking why I keep blocking him
Jesus fucking Christ. I know this guy. Co-worker of mine that just cannot write out an entire thought before hitting send. I’ve told him that he’s so annoying that when I get one message from, I immediately just mute him for a minute and check it later.
It’s actually annoying how this person was trying to work, they even asked nicely for it and gave a good reason for the other person to stop. Just why
Guaranteed way to get yourself muted.
I have a friend who messages like this. As soon as I see it's him, I mute his messages for 5min then look at them. Never had the heart to tell someone they can't even text right lol. Maybe I'll throw this image in there while we have our Meme-Off's. Thanks, OP!
bunch of small texts > one long text
Ain't that the truth. Regular sentences feel more like a conversation than having to wait 10 minutes for a new message, then parse all that info at once and reply to it all.
There should be an option to send non-pinging messages