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Originally Posted by Eastern Girl
Two points I found funny:
- Our ability to drive ourselves mad analyzing the silence after a text message. I can't tell you the number of times I've done this to myself. When I first started dating my boyfriend, I was constantly doing this. Is he not really that interested? Is he playing it cool? Am I being too needy? What does it all mean? In the end, it's just that he's not really into texting, so he tends to read a text and if it doesn't really require an immediate response, he will just talk to me in person about it later. It took me awhile to get to a point where I realized this and didn't just spiral into madness trying to decipher radio silence.
- How a grammatically incorrect text can turn you right off of someone/can help you determine their value as a human being. I definitely judge people. I've been criticized for lengthy texts, but I can't stand the idea of writing in text speak. I hate seeing someone I know to be intelligent write out, "we will C U L8TR." What the hell is that? I can't imagine you save much time, because you have to capitalize some of those letters and then throw a number in there. It's just weird to me. If I were wading in the dating pool again, I would definitely think twice about someone that sent me text speak messages.
Oh and the crude messages part definitely resonated with me. I received a number of gross texts from guys. I remember being really into this co-worker of mine and he finally admitted to liking me so we exchanged numbers so we could start texting one another. His first text to me was about my favorite sexual position.
Any guys realizing that maybe some of their texts may have been a bit forward? Do guys get that they are doing it? I know in the book, he says that guys are doing it because of the slight chance it pays off and the chick is like, "yes, I would love to show you my tits. What's your name again?"
Do you guys ever get that kind of text right off the bat from chicks? It feels like this might be exclusively male territory.
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Haha. Absolutely yes, and then no. Grammar and spelling are very sexy, long texts are not. The only really redeeming aspect of twitter is that it must be said in 140 characters. So it should be rich but concise. I generally expect that if it takes 3 broken up text messages to get your point across, then I'm going to have to listen to 15 minutes of you telling a story when 2 minutes will do perfectly.
And yes, text-speak is terrible.