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  • BoylenOver
    Junior Member
    • Nov 2008
    • 9146
    #1

    Texting/phone etiquette

    The one simple rule you need to know to have perfect texting etiquette.
    http://www.slate.com/id/2248274/
    Last week I asked readers to help me solve an etiquette problem. Most of us now carry cell phones that can do a lot more than make phone calls—we can...


    This writer (with the help of his readers) came up with a simple and (IMO) dead-on rule for texting: the Bathroom Rule. Here it is in a nutshell:

    If you're in a situation where you'd excuse yourself to go to the bathroom, you should also excuse yourself before reaching for your phone. Otherwise, go ahead without asking. Either way, don't play with your phone longer than you'd stay in the bathroom.
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    • HuskyFreeNorthwest
      Time to camp
      • Nov 2008
      • 26082
      #2
      I have one friend who seemingly only texts me while pooping, it doesn't bother me. Perhaps if he started picture messaging me...
      Get confident, stupid
      -landpoke

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        • Babs
          Not a Lawyer
          • Nov 2008
          • 17128
          #3
          If you're in a situation where you'd excuse yourself to go to the bathroom, you should also excuse yourself before reaching for your phone. Otherwise, go ahead without asking. Either way, don't play with your phone longer than you'd stay in the bathroom.
          This is kind of funny. Unless one resides in a restroom, one always has to excuse oneself to visit the bathroom.

          ex-cuse
          transitive verb
          3b: to allow to leave

          I think his rule is nice in theory, but it smacks of the kind of thing conceived in a vacuum. Kind of like in elementary mechanics where all those formulas they give you only work "on a frictionless surface with negligible wind resistance."

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            • Bo Diddley
              Senior
              • Jul 2012
              • 18846
              #4
              Texting came up at work this morning. I mentioned that a couple of the young kids we had working for us last year said the thumbs up emoji was passive aggressive. One of my young workers said, "No, that's just how old people text."

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                • Pelado
                  Bald not naked
                  • Sep 2010
                  • 21208
                  #5
                  Originally posted by Bo Diddley View Post
                  Texting came up at work this morning. I mentioned that a couple of the young kids we had working for us last year said the thumbs up emoji was passive aggressive. One of my young workers said, "No, that's just how old people text."

                  I must be either missing context or just old. Or maybe both.
                  "I think it was King Benjamin who said 'you sorry ass shitbags who have no skills that the market values also have an obligation to have the attitude that if one day you do in fact win the PowerBall Lottery that you will then impart of your substance to those without.'"
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                    • beefytee
                      Board eye candy
                      • Mar 2009
                      • 7542
                      #6
                      I had someone at work a few years ago tell me that young people like him might feel that a "yes" reply is cold or curt, that I should be using yep or yeah, or something else.

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                        • Clark Addison
                          Senior Member
                          • Nov 2008
                          • 10327
                          #7
                          There is a ton of stuff like this.

                          A lot of younger folks think that putting a period/full stop at the end of a text message is passive aggressive

                          A lot of younger folks think that reading a text message and then not immediately responding to it is very rude (because the sender sees that it is read and then is "ignoring" it)

                          This one, AFAIK, is specific to Chinese people. A lot of them feel that the normal smiley is sarcastic, and if you send it they may be offended. If you actually want to show happy you need to show a toothy smile or one of those bright and especially joyous smiley faces (I don't think we really have one of those hear, but you know what I mean).

                          There's probably 50 more "rules" like this so I find the best policy is to just ignore them.

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                            • Jeff Lebowski
                              Corporate lackey for Jesus
                              • Nov 2008
                              • 69811
                              #8
                              Originally posted by Bo Diddley View Post
                              Texting came up at work this morning. I mentioned that a couple of the young kids we had working for us last year said the thumbs up emoji was passive aggressive. One of my young workers said, "No, that's just how old people text."

                              Passive agressive.

                              Snowflakes.
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                                • Bo Diddley
                                  Senior
                                  • Jul 2012
                                  • 18846
                                  #9
                                  Originally posted by Jeff Lebowski View Post

                                  Passive agressive.

                                  Snowflakes.
                                  It totally blew me away when I first heard that. I really don't care if they think I'm too abrupt or whatever. Grow up!

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