𝑹𝒆𝒔𝒑𝒆𝒄𝒕 𝑫𝒊𝒈𝒊𝒕𝒂𝒍 𝑩𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒔

The world has gone digital and so many people has the opportunity to reach out to you at their convenience and that's not bad thing at all, but please don't face time me unannounced, it annoys me to the bone.

Talking about digital pet peeves, there's quite a lot to talk about for me, but I'll limit them to the most annoying ones.

I hate the fact that I and a person could just be chatting and the next thing they're calling you on a video call without your permission, audio call is very fine but video calls unannounced? Heck no!!

If you're not my family member don't face time me unannounced, that's my most annoying digital pet peeve. It's really rude to video call someone out of the blue without giving them heads up, I mean i could be in a position where I can't take that call, or I could be very busy or I just don't want to video call. I decline most of the impromptu video calls immediately without a second thought unless my consent was sought first.

Exceptions could be when we've discussed earlier about it and I agreed to it, I love my privacy so much and calling me unannounced is like you're invading my privacy.

The next set of people that pisses me off is those that use words like "K" instead of Okay, I mean what will it take you to add the "O" to the "K" at least. I get irritated by such, some use "I" Instead of "Hi" and you see those ones that aren't even on your contact list but will just come out of no where to message you with, "Hey," I swear I can't stand it.

Please go straight to the point, what do you want and why are you in my DM? If I know you don't have me on my contact list, the right thing I do is, Greet and explain why I my texting right away, so I expect people to do the same, besides it's courteous. Please don't send me broadcast messages, some people can send irrelevant broadcast messages which includes large files videos, that's really annoying and some will just add you to a group on WhatsApp without your consent. Respecting boundaries should also be practiced in the digital world.

In fact, I've been able to mitigate that, as I set my privacy to nobody when it comes to group, I would rather see an invite and decide to join if I wish to.

Now let's talk about people that do not use emojis to chat ... Grrrrrrrr!!! Don't you think Emoji is the life of the digital world? I mean people cannot tell see our facial expressions so the best way to interpret that is by using emojis that's why we have it there, imagine someone responding to something funny with the word "smile," Common now, we have the smiling emoji there, just use it, It's weird when people use word to convey their reaction when there are a lot of emojis.

Emojis make the chat fun and real, there's this vibe this emoji give 😂 when joking with someone, it can be used to ease the tension rather than typing without emoji or typing the word "Laughing"

Chatting with people who do not use emoji is quite annoying for me, some will even type "crying", "angry" oh please you can do better but please don't abuse it too.

Another day we will talk about the set of people that crop a part of your head while taking you pictures with a smartphone, until then.. Let me reserve my energy.