My Personal Texting Pet Peeve, Named!
Finally, someone has put a name to my personal texting pet peeve:
The Dangling Text: Nothing leaves someone to ponder their last correspondence more than the dangling text…it’s just out there cavorting amongst the airwaves unattended and unanswered. Whilst engaging in digital banter, keeping the pace is imperative. If you must abruptly return to the board meeting or tend to the whipper snappers, send a polite “/text” to inform your cohort that your attention is needed elsewhere and you will resume at a more convenient time. Not doing so is as rude as hanging up without saying good-bye…and that’s not okay either! (Eve-101)
I feel the same way about IM conversations where the other person just “hangs up” in the middle. Grrrrr! Rude!!
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…then again, with the likes of the dude in your previous post, a nice, abrupt text-bortion can sometimes be kind of like a personal favor from the gods, no?
September 26th, 2008 at 11:32 amYeah, I’m talking mainly about guys like the one who I’m actually *dating*, where he pulls stuff like this:
*tick, tock, tick, tock* (the sound of time marching by as I sit there waiting for the next text, thinking to myself “Is that ALL you have to say to me? Why bother texting at all in that case?”)
I’ll be glad when the cellular phone companies figure out how to let us block text messages from certain people, with a nice auto-responder that says “If you REALLY want to talk to me, try CALLING me instead, you idiot. Anything else is just wasting my time!”
September 26th, 2008 at 1:07 pm