to think you don't text people when you'd expect them to be asleep?

[bibbitybobbityyhat]

I have terrible insomnia and have been awake since 3am . I was actually just drifting back to sleep at 5am when I received a text from a friend!! So that's me woken up for the day. I can't think why you would do that?

How serious a problem is this night texting for people. Are you being swamped by nocturnal messages?
If not just mention it to the sender with out being all cross. If you are getting loads there has been loads of advice on dealing with them.

By reading this thrread you would think it was a huge national problem and government intervention was needed!

True, but as has been pointed out many times, some texts may have been sent hours earlier or they may have been sent out by large organisations who text en mass in the middle of the night when it is quieter. So you need to be able to deal with these as well.

Oh yes but TBH massively delayed texts are relatively rare and the mass text-bombs late at night rather than email haven't affected me much (and I'm on every marketing database that exists).

I'm definitely saying put systems in place. Simply that it doesn't absolve individuals from their thoughtless twattish behaviour.

The more the onus is on individuals to filter out the nonsense, the more acceptable it will be. So it's ok to say 'hey, not fine' to a company or individual who is texting at bizarre o'clock.

I told my friend that her text woke me up and she was really sorry. Still love her to bits.

Of course she did.

The twattiness on this thread doesn't reflect how most people deal think about communication.

"Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me!"-style raging against the idea that you can't send text messages whenever you damn well please is all a bit adolescent.

How thoughtful of User1471464238 to come on to a thread with 270 messages and suggest something that cannot possibly have been suggested before!

To be fair, bibbity, you haven't said if you've taken any of the advice given here on board, and whether you will be putting your phone on silent or not.

I can see why people are repeating the same thing to you.

I just thought it was general politeness. Same as you don't phone at 5am you don't text either. Nearly everyone I know takes their phone to bed with them, uses it as an alarm and doesn't turn it on silent in case there's an emergency.

I call it manners...

Hello tofutti

I did infact say I didn't know you could have your phone on silent whilst still using it as an alarm, before 7am on the day of my original post! So clearly that is what I will do now, all because I received one text that woke me up in the night ... once!

How is that clear?

"You thick fuck, stop dictating to people when they can send text messages and manage your settings" isn't really advice.

I told my friend that her text woke me up and she was really sorry. Still love her to bits.

All this debate and all it takes to sort out is to talk to each other.
Who would have thought it?

Tofu, you clearly haven't read the thread.

OP did say that. Right back in the first couple of pages. Get your facts straight before making pronouncements.

Tops

I have RTFT thread. Maybe you should re-read what I wrote.

Saying 'I didn't know I could put my phone on silent and still use the alarm' is not the same as saying that's what you're going to do.

Hence loads of posts from subsequent posters.

I was explaining why OP was still getting lots of suggestions.

Now I'm stepping out of this thread. Keep your buns to yourself, I'm not in the mood for a fight.