Honestly, I hard disagree. Texting is so inefficient. If I want to have a conversation with someone, I just call them. It’s so much easier to just get everything sorted all out at once instead of trying to send messages back and forth and you get distracted and forget to reply. Meh. You can so easily turn a conversation that takes hours, sometimes days into a 2 minute phone call
Texting is great for some things, but you lose a lot in translation. I have seen a lot of arguments that happen over text that would not happened on a voice call.
I understand your point but every single person that said that to me was unable to form their message neatly and efficiently.
No hello. No asking if it’s okay to ask. Write concisely, state all your questions in first message, drop the masquarade of niceness. People who use that get similiar response - and without the awkward call-like “gimmie a sec, need to check” or worse “let me circle back to it later”. As soon as I get the info, you have it. In the meanwhile, you can focus on something else.
Not saying this applies to you though - simply yoir comment caused a flood of bad memories of call-centric people being unable to use messages, mostly due to laziness.
Honestly, I hard disagree. Texting is so inefficient. If I want to have a conversation with someone, I just call them. It’s so much easier to just get everything sorted all out at once instead of trying to send messages back and forth and you get distracted and forget to reply. Meh. You can so easily turn a conversation that takes hours, sometimes days into a 2 minute phone call
Texting is great for some things, but you lose a lot in translation. I have seen a lot of arguments that happen over text that would not happened on a voice call.
I understand your point but every single person that said that to me was unable to form their message neatly and efficiently.
No hello. No asking if it’s okay to ask. Write concisely, state all your questions in first message, drop the masquarade of niceness. People who use that get similiar response - and without the awkward call-like “gimmie a sec, need to check” or worse “let me circle back to it later”. As soon as I get the info, you have it. In the meanwhile, you can focus on something else.
Not saying this applies to you though - simply yoir comment caused a flood of bad memories of call-centric people being unable to use messages, mostly due to laziness.