I used to be a lover of texting/ chatting not until my adult life became so busy and I'm so bad at texting, not until you call me to get off my sewing machine and check my WhatsApp or Discord because these are the major apps I tend to have friends and family reach out to me. Since I know that some texting habits can be bad, I'd rather give you a call, or in cases where I can only reach you through texts, trust me to leave an epistle of all I have to say to you once, I don't like beating around the bush, which leads me to the topic of today, My texting turn-offs.
You see those unknown numbers/strangers or probably a first-time meet, who happen to get your number and decide to drop a Hello or Hi without introducing themselves or going straight to the point If they have something to pass across to you, is very annoying, I recently had an annoying encounter, he typed hello, I was even calm enough to replies "hi" and the next thing he could type was" how was your night?" Like how does this make sense? Asking someone you don't know or just met one time such a question. For this set of people, I just put them on ignore mode until when their brain resets and they go straight to the point.
Another annoying sets are the people that I don't know which planet they are from, no matter how long the epistle you write trying to initiate a genuine conversation because that's the reason we text after all, to communicate, they won't leave more than a simple word reply, imagine explaining something to someone and want to know how they feel about it, only to get an "ok" sometimes I wish there was a real-life slap button to give such person for wasting my time, effort and probably emotions trying to reach out to them through texts, this has to be painful of them all. I have a friend whose husband resides overseas, and the only way they communicate most of the time is through chats as he can't always make video calls when he is at work, her usual complaint now is that it's like her husband is seeing someone else because he replies her messages with just these simple one-word reply no matter how much she complains, he might not even be having an affair as she suspects but this bad texting habit of his is now putting strain on their marriage, especially at this critical moment when they are apart. So I'm putting it out there that if you are also guilty of this bad texting habit, desist from it as it is bound to put a strain on your relationship with people and they start having negative ideas about you.
What about those that actually read your texts, you can boldly see the double ticks, apart from those that disguise with privacy settings and just decide not to reply or feign not seeing your message when you physically meet and question them, I'm not referring to those texts that are all about billing someone, of course you are free to ignore such if you can but when it is an urgent matter that needs your input, always create that time to reply genuinely, and if you are too busy to type, give them a call, this is what I mostly do, rather than just ignore, as it is rude to ignore people's time and emotions.
