Texting Etiquette

Did you know that over 79 million people text on a regular basis? (TMOT) I am one of those people. I love to text. Sometimes my brother Spencer and I will have full conversations through text without ever talking F2F. Weird? I think not. Maybe if we never talked on the phone it would be considered weird, but we text and talk on a regular basis. Spencer is really the one who started me on the whole texting craze. I somehow missed the generation of texting. Spencer was texting over 1000 texts a month a couple of years ago and that really seemed to spark my interest in texting. If he was doing it so much, why couldn't I? After all, my work pays for my phone; I didn't even know if I had a texting limit. (FRT) So my texting began. At first I only sent texts to Spencer and Sean. Then that slowly grew to sending texts to the rest of my family (not my mom yet though--still working on that one). Now the list has grown. I text friends, clients, coworkers, my mother and father-n-law, the girls I visit teach, and more. But last week, I text (text or texted? that's a whole other post) my friend Emily and after not having a response for awhile I called her to see what the deal was. She told me that this was her first text and she didn't know how to do it. I was pretty shocked! And then I read this on my friend Val's blog. So for all you NT (non-texters) or TIL (texters in learning) I am doing a special post on texting. Did you know there is actual texting etiquette? Apparently you shouldn't call someone if he/she has not responded to your text (sorry Em!) And there is a whole dictionary for texting lingo--when I found that out I LSHMBH. Look it up if you don't understand the lingo!

 

FWIW

* Thirty-five percent of young adults say they've read or sent an e-mail or text message under the dinner table during a holiday family gathering.

*11 percent of Americans say breaking up with a boyfriend or girlfriend via text message is okay

*Twenty-eight percent have used text messaging to avoid long conversations

*59 percent of active daters use text messaging to communicate with their dates

TTFN