12 mo. ago • 95%

I just love hearing my Yoshi tongue notification sound fire off like a goddamn uzi

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Can we all agree that people that send voice notes for no good reason are the worst?

No I don't want to find some time to sit through your 5 minute ramble.

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- Forgive me, friend, but I am not familiar. You're saying they send like... like... voice-mail? Fucking monsters.
  
  The text doesn't do my sentiment credit. I, too, would hate those people. My boss does this. Hostages people in conversations. I don't want to be your fucking soundboard for 47 minutes mate!
  
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- Then imagine this: people who send bursts of extremely short voice messages, like 1 to 3 seconds. For anything
  
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I call it "stream of consciousness texting", and it drives me berserk.

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- It’s ADD, you get a text for every new thing that pops into our heads.
  
  Welcome to the club!
  
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  Some people also don’t like getting a wall of text, smaller text messages (think paragraph size) can be easier to scroll, digest and respond too.
  
  Sometimes it’s the same thought, sometimes it’s multiple. I’ve never had someone ask me to put multiple messages in one to make it easier to deal with. Usually want them broken down.
  
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I prefer it over the paragraphs to be honest breaks up the info and helps my shitty eyes read it better

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- It depends
  
  some people
  
  don't even send
  
  whole sentences
  
  sometimes
  
  just single words
  
  gotta find
  
  out
  
  where the sentences end
  
  no punctuation either
  
  y'know
  
  so
  
  that's kinda annoying
  
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  Lmao you got me with that one fuck thats annoying
  
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- Insert an empty line. Problem?
  
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Honestly it depends on the context. If my good buddy is sending me their thoughts on a really bad piece of media then ya I want the stream of consciousness take. But if this is a random text from an acquaintance then it better be in as few chunks as possible

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Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra

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- Temba, his arms wide.
  
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  "Not the size of your arms,my arms!"
  
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- stop sending me so many messages!
  
  Mirab, with sails unfurled
  
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Hey.

Saw your text.

What time?

Oh wait I see it.

Hmmmm.

(Gif of giraffe on roller skates)

I think it’s okay.

Maybe.

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- Edit: this was meant to be a gif.
  
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  well said
  
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What's wrong with that?

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- Like
  
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  Do you not have unlimited texts?
  
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- It's embarrassing in a public space or if you're trying to get something done
  
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- My rule when someone does this, is to not respond for at least an hour. Doesn't matter what they said, or how urgent the matter is (unless it's a true emergency), 1 hour minimum.
  
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I

Sometimes

Run

Into

People

Who

Text

Like

This

And

My

God

Is

It

Annoying!

😬

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- Agree
  
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- I
  
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What gets me is that most apps I've seen do not use the full screen width to display messages. On a phone, in portrait mode, the screen is small enough, but the apps only use about 75% of the screen width. when they could use more. THis makes walls of text/paragraphs even more difficult to read.

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This is me, I'm sorry

My brother hates when I do it, he straight up mutes me on discord for a day or so if I do it hahaha Probably other people too... As someone said here, it's probably my ADHD, never thought about it in that way but it does make sense.

I've been trying to cut down on the amount I send though. Keeping things concise, as much as I can.

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Thanks, this post inspired me to find a new text notification sound.

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- "None" is my favorite sound. I'm looking at my phone enough, I'll get it when I get it.
  
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- https://file.io/OmwzpckjwlU2
  
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Or those who text in pentameter's beat.

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- I hate when people text poetically
  
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I honestly think this is a bit of a generational gap. I grew up in the 90s and remember when "PCS" phones (the kind that started the whole personal cellphone thing for the masses) did not have text messaging. Then, later, some did, others didn't.

Eventually, every phone and carrier supported SMS. IMO, that's partly because they charged per message. Shortly after that, some carriers offered a friends and family texting plan, where you could set a small amount of phone numbers (I think 5 was common) that would be unlimited texting, everyone else you texted was some small amount per message.

Pretty quickly that was followed with unlimited texting plans.

Almost immediately after that long form texting, aka MMS was introduced, but it was problematic from day one..... You could also send multimedia over MMS, like pictures.... They were compressed to hell, but it worked.... Sometimes.

Everything went RCS and data driven chats after that.

The key point I'm driving at is that early texting, aka SMS, was limited to a maximum of 160 characters, which might just be able to contain the jist of a sentence. If you grew up before sms became a thing, long form may suit you better than alternatives. If you grew up with SMS, you probably have a learned behavior that text based messages should be pretty short and to the point, so many small-ish messages are probably required.

I am excited to see what happens with those that didn't have to limit their messages to 160 characters, grow up.

I'm more or less on the cusp of the technology. I was subscribed pretty early on in my youth, so I'm kind of both but also nether. Anyways...

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- In my experience the biggest reason texts were short wasn't the limit but the fact that we grew up having to text on a telephone keypad so it took forever.
  
  You became u, etc.
  
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  T9 wasn't all bad.
  
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  L8r m8
  
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I text multiple paragraph texts back to back over and over again. I'm told even being that verbose I'm still completely incomprehensible most of the time.

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- What does this even mean
  
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- (assumption)
  
  ah you're one of those people who speaks in an unintuitive manner because you think a big vocabulary is better
  
  but you have not considered that succinct and understandable is better
  
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  It's partially that, but I more use obscure definitions for words rather than their intuitive ones. The issue is I don't know what the average person will understand.
  
  The bigger problem is probably that I'm super autistic and expect people to know what I'm thinking just because I know it. I write a thousand paragraphs clarifying useless details to try to be clear, and then somebody will be like "Okay, but you never even once mentioned what it is you're talking about," and I'll be like "Oh, I assumed by the fact that I said I was excited and mentioned several things that don't happen in real life that it was clear I was talking about a new game I was enjoying."
  I never know what details are actually useful to clarify until somebody's getting confused about one of them (or usually more like 50 of them.)
  
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2-3 is ok, but any more than that and it starts to get ridiculous

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BA-LUNG

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