[dvtrn]

I have a few people who send text messages like this. Each stream of thought comes as a separate message which can be incredibly annoying when I’ve turned my brain off for the day because I only have so many spoons for anything other than sitting there with my thoughts (actually very enjoyable) or maybe a book and the phone out of nowhere starts dinging every two seconds because I’m on the receiving end of a disjointed and scattered series of someone’s thoughts.

I love my friends. I hate how they communicate over text.

[SilasX]

Haha yes. I have just one friend that does that. I also have a friend on the opposite end (late 50's early 60's I think?) who treats text messages like old-school letters.

"Silas,

I hope this message reaches you well. The sun is setting and I am optimistic about the future. I am wondering if you are interested in the upcoming conference, where you are sure to find many fans of that course you like. Let me know what you think and get back to me.

[his name]"

Me: "Oh sure I'm going already got ticket and booked flight."

[dvtrn]

Not gonna lie, I vastly prefer that. Not to say I bombard people with entire encyclopedias when messaging, but…I dunno. I guess, maybe this is the result of being one of those “elder millennials” I send text messages with the kind of intentional and to the point messaging style with the brevity of someone who pays $0.50 per message like it’s 1999 and isn’t running across the house to respond to every blip and beep my phone makes.

(Interestingly once I scared off a potential dating partner who is heavily into texting constantly and called me out for my asynchronous messaging habits and I flatly responded “sometimes I just want to put my phone down and do literally anything else”)