What Text Replies REALLY Mean
Everyone’s texting or messaging everyone these days. Parents message their kids downstairs to dinner. Teachers will text a student to put away their phone. Pretty soon we’ll figure out a way to text our pets.
A big problem is that, faceless and voiceless, text messages don’t do a stellar job of conveying emotion. People have to go out of their way to write it in, or decorate messages with emoticons that set the right mood. However, since people can be monumentally lazy when it comes to texting, we don’t always do this. Honestly, we rarely do it. The quality of communication can easily descend into the equivalent of a toddler’s finger paintings.
This can cause mild confusion to total nervous breakdown. We’ve all had that moment when we frown at a text we’ve just received, or sent, and wondered if it was actually really nasty sounding.
Added to all of this are the hazards of spelling tripwires, weaponized punctuation and autocorrect lobbing in word grenades here and there. Texting can turn out to be pretty dangerous business.
This Instructional Diagram should help you out with those short replies you may have received without getting the clue. This is the truth about what they really mean. Probably. Best to assume the worst, right?
Sheesh. It’s a wonder anyone’s speaking to anyone after texting each other.
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