Social Media and texting 😜

[DeFunkCat]

Texting is hard for me. What is the implied message? What is going on for that person? With their family friends, work hobbies? …… It’s also about thinking about what other social norms involved in replying. Am I replying too soon? Am I leaving it too long? Am I giving away too much information? Most times I’ll leave it for a bit and have a good think about it. with group texts I like to wait and see how other people respond so I can get a temperature of the conversation. Is this masking? probably. I certainly can’t naturally respond. I often see a text is received and wonder about it quite a bit before reading it. I usually respond after having time to massively overthink it coming round in a full circle to what I originally thought about the text. It’s exhausting like most social interaction is for me.

 

[vergil96]

It's a matter of practice, like "intuition" often is

 

[DeFunkCat]

I get it. I’ve done post grad studies in change mgt, org dynamics, business psychology. Knowing it is one thing. What you intrinsically are and know makes the actual practice v difficult.

 

[Shamar]

Texting is hard for me. What is the implied message? What is going on for that person? With their family friends, work hobbies? …… It’s also about thinking about what other social norms involved in replying. Am I replying too soon? Am I leaving it too long? Am I giving away too much information? Most times I’ll leave it for a bit and have a good think about it. with group texts I like to wait and see how other people respond so I can get a temperature of the conversation. Is this masking? probably. I certainly can’t naturally respond. I often see a text is received and wonder about it quite a bit before reading it. I usually respond after having time to massively overthink it coming round in a full circle to what I originally thought about the text. It’s exhausting like most social interaction is for me.

I cannot read between the lines or understand innuendo or implied meaning. For me, the words themselves are the message, the ONLY message.

 

[DeFunkCat]

yes, the only message. It’s so not the only message though, for me,