Now that sending a text message is as normal as sending an email, the folks over at Predicto feel there are a few basic rules you should keep in the back of your mind. Predicto is a web site that allows users to vote on hot topics via text message, so they know a thing or two about good old SMS. Their guide to texting etiquette:
1. Use Text abbreviations we ALL understand: No need for texting things like INUCOSM or RUUP4IT. There is no need to carry text abbreviation to English dictionary.
2. Drunk Texting: Friends don’t let friends text drunk, “just say no!” It’s not your responsibility, but your duty to take away their phone.
3. Texting during a face to face conversation: You’re telling the other person that they aren’t worth ALL your attention, someone else is more important.
4. Paragraph Texting: try to keep texts around 140 characters, just like a Twitter Tweet
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5. Sending pictures/information via Text: Careful…it might not be just for the eyes of the person you are sending to, but many others who have no business seeing it.
6. Text Noise Alerts: If you’re a serial texter keep the alert to vibrate or silent (better yet) so you don’t bother everyone around you with the robot-like singing of the “The Spice Girls”.
Going down the list, I came to realize that I am guilty of breaking two or three of these rules on a regular basis. As far as drunk texting goes, there is an incredibly easy fix that will stop those texts before they start – if you know you’re going to be drunk, delete the number of any ex. It’s for your own good.
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I think texting manners are very importatnt and this article stinks. So have a very nice day.
Well, I guess I should be glad that I didn't write most of it, then.
I think texting manners are very importatnt and this article stinks. So have a very nice day.
Well, I guess I should be glad that I didn't write most of it, then.
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