darn new-fangled technology
Thursday, March 26th, 2009 by AriI have a confession to make: I don’t know how to deal with text messages. Seriously – not a clue. Are they like email? Are they like IM? Are they just substitutes for short phone calls? Each of these three has a different etiquette and I don’t know which system to apply to text messages. When an old friend texts to say “I’m in town”, does that mean I should text back to say “let’s meet up?”Am I supposed to return the text with a phone call? What is the acceptable time frame in which to return a text message? Do people get upset if you don’t respond to a text? How do they even know I got it? (Answer: they don’t. I had text messaging blocked until a short time ago when I was offered it for free, and text messages to me simply vanished without informing the sender that they hadn’t been sent).
