Texting

[Jabrosky]

While hanging out at UCSD today, I met a pretty Nigerian girl who majored in Biology and now studies pharmacology. After a brief introductory conversation she kindly gave me her phone number and asked me to text her in case I wanted to hang out with her sometime. The problem is that I've always found texting on any kind of phone really awkward, so I'm a little intimidated by the endeavor, especially since I always aim for accurate spelling and grammar in any messages I type. Anyone else bothered by texting?

In case it matters, I have an iPhone but don't know what phone she uses.

[Steerpike]

While hanging out at UCSD today, I met a pretty Nigerian girl who majored in Biology and now studies pharmacology. After a brief introductory conversation she kindly gave me her phone number and asked me to text her in case I wanted to hang out with her sometime. The problem is that I've always found texting on any kind of phone really awkward, so I'm a little intimidated by the endeavor, especially since I always aim for accurate spelling and grammar in any messages I type. Anyone else bothered by texting?

In case it matters, I have an iPhone but don't know what phone she uses.

It doesn't bother me. I post on here from my phone as well. It only takes a little extra time to get the spelling and grammar right. I prefer the swype keyboard.

[Benjamin Clayborne]

Just be yourself. Text the way you'd text anyone else. If she's bothered by you texting using full sentences and proper spelling and grammar, that's her problem, not yours.

[Steerpike]

I use proper spelling and grammar when I text. Most people do not but I have never met anyone who is bothered by it.

[Fnord]

If she's a keeper, she not only won't mind, but she'll appreciate it.

Complete sentences are a lost art, after all.

[Kelise]

I use proper grammar and spelling while texting, and rarely talk to those who don't. In fact, I think my aunt is the only one who abbreviates things even slightly, as she's on an older phone with a character limit.

[Ankari]

The most distasteful thing you said was "I have an Iphone."

Complete sentences! I hate how everyone abbreviates words and suddenly use street slang when texting. I always make a point to call them out on it.

Yeah, I'm a dictator! So?

[Kit]

I text very little- mostly limited to carpool arrangements- but I abbreviate as much as possible. Not because I don't like good spelling and grammar- I do- but because every extra character costs me more $ to send, and costs me more time to painstakingly tick out with the tips of my fingernails on that teeny tiny little keypad. It's not laziness or sloppiness, just the utility of the medium.

[Jabrosky]

So I finally tried texting the girl a few days ago, but she never responded. Calling her twice has proven equally fruitless. In all honesty I suspect this girl only gave me her contact information out of politeness and didn't really want to associate with me. I must have scared her when we first met or something.

[Saigonnus]

I rlly h8 wen ppl typ lik dis...

That said, I know it mattered once upon a time, when there were limits on the number of characters you could use for a text message and a person wanted to get as much information as possible into a single message. In this day and age, with unlimited texts and something like 250 characters per message you'd think people would go away from that again, but the truth is; people are lazy. I am sorry she did that to you, seems rude in my opinion. Why don't people say what they feel anymore?