So a revelation I've had is that I honestly hate texting people. It's really annoying. I know. I guess our generation is big on it, but I hate it only text people if I need quick information. Like, where are you? I'm at the library. Okay, I'm coming. And that kind of stuff. I cannot text someone to get to know them. That's just awful
Isabella Croston
@isabellaa · 0:25
I also I hate texting, and it's kind of inconvenient being someone who isn't a big texture, because being away at College, that's one of the main ways you communicate with people that you want want to stay in touch with. And that's definitely something that I hate doing is texting. So it's really hard to keep in touch with people. So I have to try another ways
Samuel Penate
@samuelpenate · 1:23
And I guess society in general, they have gotten used to just texting, though. And I'm getting to the habit of meeting with people more often in person so I can talk to them and just have more personal interaction with them. And I personally prefer that
Swell Team
@Swell · 0:15
Margaret Latenser
@Maggiel6 · 0:32
And I think it probably makes people mad that I don't respond very quickly because it is more convenient for some people. But I don't know. I'd much rather hear your voice
tay hendrix
@taythepisces · 0:33
I can totally relate to this. I feel like I like texting people if I already know them really well, and I'm very comfortable talking to them. But getting to know someone through text can definitely be be very difficult. And I feel like I don't know how to show my personality because I also worry about like, well, what if they take this the wrong way? Because you can't really read tone through text. So, yeah, I do think that it can be very annoying
Darrisha Daniel
@Dee94 · 2:03
But I feel like, obviously getting to know someone is better in person, like, when you really don't know them at all, getting to know them 100% should be done either through face to face contact or, like, voice talking, like over the phone, even when you already know them. It's just like texting is so like small Talkish and it's just like, who wants to sit there and talk text or type out paragraphs? Like, not me. Definitely not me
Kylie Miller
@kyliemiller · 1:20
So most of the time, honestly, when I send text messages, I'm reading what I'm typing and what I'm reading out loud because I cannot understand it. For the life of me, I don't know. That's just how my brain works. But I think now I've just used it as a way to just kind of, like, organize plans or organize seeing someone to talk to them. Because you don't get a lot out of a text message
And then I'll reply and I'm like, EW, I'm so cringey. Why did I just say that? But in reality, it was probably fine, it was probably not that bad, whatever. But I do not like texting more than anything, and I think it's partially like what is killed dating in the modern era is technology and texting
I actually kind of. I hate texting now that I think about it. Now that I listen to your slow. Like, for example, you start talking to someone and then I just feel like it's kind of weird to be like, just of waiting on a text and then just like, expecting a reply rather than getting to know them through, like a phone call FaceTime or just like in person
Cassidy Waterson
@cassidywat · 1:12
But I don't know, sometimes I trip out about my using, too many exclamation points, too many emotions, all that. So it's definitely a struggle. But texting guys? Maybe that's why I am single as a Pringle. But texting guys is not my forte. Definitely
Dewuan .
@FryedOreo · 3:32
Grace, what a lovely post and sorry that you are coming up in the wrong era to which you're supposed to get to know someone because yeah, invariably the I would say folks between the ages of 16 to 38, that is their modus operandi for getting to know someone is through text. And the interesting thing about text is that some people can say, oh, it's nothing different than when we used to write letters back and forth with one another