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.

I call it "stream of consciousness texting", and it drives me berserk.

I prefer it over the paragraphs to be honest breaks up the info and helps my shitty eyes read it better

Honestly it depends on the context. If my good buddy is sending me their thoughts on a really bad piece of media then ya I want the stream of consciousness take. But if this is a random text from an acquaintance then it better be in as few chunks as possible

Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra

Hey.

Saw your text.

What time?

Oh wait I see it.

Hmmmm.

(Gif of giraffe on roller skates)

I think it’s okay.

Maybe.

What's wrong with that?

What gets me is that most apps I've seen do not use the full screen width to display messages. On a phone, in portrait mode, the screen is small enough, but the apps only use about 75% of the screen width. when they could use more. THis makes walls of text/paragraphs even more difficult to read.

I

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Like

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God

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Annoying!

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This is me, I'm sorry

My brother hates when I do it, he straight up mutes me on discord for a day or so if I do it hahaha Probably other people too... As someone said here, it's probably my ADHD, never thought about it in that way but it does make sense.

I've been trying to cut down on the amount I send though. Keeping things concise, as much as I can.

Thanks, this post inspired me to find a new text notification sound.

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...

Or those who text in pentameter's beat.

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.