who in your life does this?? aarrgghhhh

[ZingDramaQueenOfSheeba]

DH has such form for sending several messages in quick succession, instead of just one.
I hate the constant pinging, especially when I'm doing something else and a string of messages every 2 secs keep interrupting me.

He's just taken DS3 for an ear check up, then sent 5 messages within 1 min:
"just been seen"
"ear's fine"
"drum healed"
"all good"
"coming shortly"

🙄 is it hard to combine those words in one message?
I guess action speaks louder than asking again to stop so I sent this back.
🤣

tell me, who else does this?

So many

@mrsbitaly

Imagine this but 50 photos of a blurred dog being sent to you at different angles that's what I get from my dad. Or images of scaffolding that's gone up in garden or a video of a panoramic view of a wall he has just painted 🤣🤣

That's so cute.

It just made me wonder what my parents would have sent me if they had ever got to grips with phones and social media.

What would they would have thought would be of interest to me?

People do it..... ?

DS(12) does this.

Help
Help
Help
Come quick
I need you
Help
Help
I’m staaaaarving

I have a friend that does this, but in voice notes. I had 23 recently. It drives me bonkers.

Smartphones are yet again dumbing us down to monosyllabic primative coms and short cutting proper grammar.

My husband's ex wife does this. One message takes a whole fucking evening. Why put it all in one message when 30 will do?

My crazy neighbour does it. It's not unusual to get 14 texts from her all in a row if I'm feeding her cat for her or if she wants to borrow something or if she's wondering about the bins. Drives me crazy so know if I see the first message is from her I'll just not look at the phone for 10 minutes so she can get it all off her chest before I respond.

My lovely (much younger) friend also does this. She often sends a video or a voice message following 8 texts. I just laugh and shake my head.

And there we have context. Love my friend so she is forgiven; consider throwing my phone in the sea when it's my neighbour.

@YanTanTetheraPetheraPimp

My sister sends a email and 5 minutes later texts the same content then after another 5 minutes phones to tell you the same thing. It. Drives. Me. Potty. 😡

@YanTanTetheraPetheraPimp

MIL does a version of this.
sends an email, sends a text and a WhatsApp - exact same message.
then she calls to ask if I saw her messages....I'm glad we don't have beepers and faxes anymore or she'd use those as well. and a homing pigeon

@Thatsplentyjack

When my ds sends me a text, everytime without fail he sends "mum" and then just waits for me to answer with "what?", before he actually says what he needs to say.

Again, this isn't the same bit similar to a pp. My dp will phone me sometimes when he's got a spare 5 mins (usually at a really bad time for me) and will yammer on about nothing and then all of a sudden he will say "right ill let you go, I'm really busy" eh, why did you phone me then! He does this to everyone though, not just me.

Oh no.

Now that what your son does, would annoy the hell out of me. I'd have stopped that by now

I type as I think on WhatsApp. MIL always sends an essay which I find hard to read to as you feel you'd have to cover everything in your reply. If she just sent separate texts I could reply to eg. Are you coming to dinner this Sunday in the affirmative without also having to cover off what we'd like to eat, have we written back to aunty June and what the kids want for Christmas.

I

Do

This

😊

maybe it's a teenager thing but I've scrolled through messages with my oldest 4 - they are really not that bad!

it's interesting to hear why some people find it easier, thanks for replies.

I do this😂

I often have to think about what I want to say and don't like sending one fat paragraph I think it looks ugly😂

My ex does this - sends 7 messages then follows up with ‘???’

@ZenNudist

I type as I think on WhatsApp. MIL always sends an essay which I find hard to read to as you feel you'd have to cover everything in your reply. If she just sent separate texts I could reply to eg. Are you coming to dinner this Sunday in the affirmative without also having to cover off what we'd like to eat, have we written back to aunty June and what the kids want for Christmas.

@ZenNudist

that's different. I don't mind if it's several questions or reminders - much easier to quote & reply. Although I'm still more likely to reply with "yes, no, maybe, 2, yesterday, in your dreams, chicken tortillas" 😁

This is text/whatsapp speak.

Those same youngsters then turn up at work trying to send emails in the same way. They have to be 'trained' to write clear and succinct single emails topped and tailed with niceties and containing attachments and links that can be read by senior management and very important busy people.

The art of communication. To think that in my day, emails were considered informal communication. Nowadays in my field, it is the main form of work communication. Informal is whatsapp and text.

I have 2 modes. Quick messages, written as spoken and full on novel.

Both are annoying to different people but it's how my brain works so I am not about to change it.

My teens do this

Mum
You there
Im out of snacks
Send some
Pleeeeeeease
I loove you
Pleeeease

And I send back

Do you want pretzels or cookies or both

It is possible to put everything you want to communicate in one message and it is more environmentally friendly as it takes less energy to send 1 five word text than multiple texts that add up to five words.

My Dad does the opposite, and then some. He sends such long messages that texts can't cope and even WhatsApp has to break them down into several different parts.

DH is a quickfire messager too. I muted him 3 weeks ago. He hasn't realised yet.

I don't have whatsapp notifications turned on (if it was something important, they'd call) so it's not really an issue for me. I get a lockscreen notifcation but no "pings" for each message, so if they sent 20 separate messages it'd appear the same on my phone as one single message.

I do this to my dcs because they refuse to open WhatsApp to read what I send them. They only look at the first few words that pop up on their screen.
So it's sent in a long trail of bullet points that they might actually acknowledge.