It would be a helluva heap easier to just say “ end texting me , oh please for the love of god stop texting me , ” and for that to actually … body of work . But like it or not , texting — and group texting particularly — are facts of life . And as with most facts of life , they arrive with some unspoken rules that , for some , require to be talk into reality .
I have one admirer in special who is an particularly severe offender . We ’ll call her Carmen . I have it away Carmen , and she is a beloved acquaintance , but Carmen has a trend to fire off grouping texts of contact or photos or something to like , nine people at once . It ’s not the what ’s inside the schoolbook that ’s unsavoury — it ’s the human action of gangbang texting that is at fault .
The worst part of these mountain chain of smartphone - based terrorism is that there ’s more often than not not any organizing rule at gambling other than “ people the sender have sex . ” You know how irritating it is to get replies from number you do n’t recognize you do n’t know ? prove five in a row . It ’s the rebirth of the range email , a data format that blessedly died off ( for the most part ) year ago .
Group school text also never improve with age . After the initial letter is lobbed off , the near - alien begin respond . A third of the people on the thread might think said figure of speech macro or link is peculiar , and they reply as such . A third might think it ’s silent as hell and that group texting is torment , and they respond as such . And the last third sit in harrowing silence , hoping they ’ll stop being hold engrossed by textual assault in this lifetime . It ’s like being at a political party that you did n’t want to go to and did n’t RSVP to , but on the spur of the moment you waken from a daze right next to the punch bowl anyway .
As a last resort , you’re able to block numbers . But that is n’t incisively the answer . Most of the clock time when you ’re being text molested , the perpetrator is someone you bonk . So you have to tread thinly .
So how do you proceed ? As with life , you are probably not going to modify someone else ’s conduct . That ’s o.k. , it ’s how the world works , life is n’t fair , etc . etc . But you could abide by some rules yourself , and hope that the legal philosophy of Karma play back good things to your lifetime .
1 ) If you ’re sending out a grouping text , the people in the schoolbook should all know each other . The only exception to this rule is if you ’re sending out a reminder to an event or a party . In that pillowcase it ’s perfectly fine to send out a clap , because you ’ve minimized the chances that people will write back .
2 ) It ’s ok to ask people to chill it . Unless they ’re assholes , which they very well may be , they should value your request . I have a group thread with two old college roomy , and when I went to CES back in January , I asked them if we could mute thing until I came back . They were totally fine with it . When I return back to from the brink and reentered functioning society , I came back to our schoolbook .
3 ) Conversely , you should respect a petition to STFU . Unless you ’re a dick !
In short , mathematical group text are n’t malevolent , but they can be annoying as hell . But we can get through it with a little coarse good manners .
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