The pamphlet lists this as one of the bad signs, but I'm telling you -- same room #texting rocks for sharing plans without interruption in a room full of kids #HealthyLiving #DigitalDetox #PrivateInPublic

#txt
#textmessaging
#texting
#textme
#txthinking
#txtme
#sms
#smsreceiver
#smsmessages
#SMS2023

Researchers recommend phone auto-locks while walking to prevent accidents:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/08/08/research-phones-lock-automatically-texting-and-walking/

Another research finds complex unlock procedure is enough to deter most users from using phone regardless

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/262369639_An_empirical_investigation_into_how_users_adapt_to_mobile_phone_auto-locks_in_a_multitask_setting

#phone #texting #walking #lock

TechcrunchSecurity: Google’s Messages app will now use RCS by default and encrypt group chats https://techcrunch.com/2023/08/08/google-messages-will-now-use-rcs-by-default-and-encrypt-group-chats/ #messaging #Security #Android #texting #Google #Apps #RCS

TechcrunchSecurity: Google’s Messages app will now use RCS by default and encrypt group chats https://techcrunch.com/2023/08/08/google-messages-will-now-use-rcs-by-default-and-encrypt-group-chats/ #messaging #Security #Android #texting #Google #Apps #RCS

#Chase announces that as of 15 October 2023 they will be discontinuing "Text Banking services."

I'm a texter as much as anyone (used to use Twitter's text interface), but I never was even aware of text banking.

This, btw, doesn't affect notifications via text.
#SMS #texting

@selzero

#HashTagging #AllTheThings is a #RevolutionaryAct... Just like: #Texting and #Knitting...

#Hash
#Tag
#All
#The
#Things

#MisterDenSaysSo

🧙⚔️🤖🐺🤖⚔️🧙 | ☕🎠🦹🦄🦹🎠☕

You’re not imagining it. Companies are texting you more and more. Vox writer Emily Stewart puts it well when she says “I’d rather a friend ask me to a party than an app made by the pharma giant that makes Botox.” Here’s more: https://flip.it/RgiKl9
#Tech #Texting #Phone #Spam

https://lateboomersden.blog/2023/07/14/zoomers-are-changing-punctuation/
This was an interesting tidbit from NBC. Zoomers are changing the way they use - and don't use - periods. I think the kids are pretty smart in this case. They're adapting.
#Culture, #Technology, #communication, #GenZ, #Internet, #metacommunication, #punctuation, #texting, #Zoomers

My #view about #alternate #texting #images on #Mastdon:

1. it is not a #marketing #SEO #website for #Google #indexing
2. #images usually #describes post #contents
3. I have the right to send #empty alt="" tags, it is not in #EULA nor police will hurt me
4. alt-text speller programs has other #accessibility #issues, #semantic #web is a #holy #dream since the #90s
5. do as you feels like to do, I am doing as I want to, nobody fails that way

Thank you for reading my opinion.

Tell me how do you use the 🙃 emoji
#emoji #poll #text #texting #definition #polls #pollsofmastodon #pollsandpublicopinion

Maybe in a cinema with a twenty-foot-tall screen, I could read a text on the phone a character's holding. (I haven't been to a movie theater since Pierce Brosnan was James Bond.) When I'm lying in bed watching a 32-inch screen eight feet from my head, I can't. I have to move to the foot of the bed to do so.

I wish more shows and films would use the style where texts are popped out as large bubbles. Alas, such is rare.

#film #television #texting

My spouse and I

#SesameStreet #Memes #Texting #Spouses #PunIntended #CountDracula

#Lovebombing boosted with #texting is the equivalent of a #dopamine relationship speedball (cocaine and heroin). Separately, both love bombing and text messaging can create potent dopamine brain baths. Together, they’re a powerfully destructive combination.

Dopamine creates intense wanting that leads to seeking behavior. Seeking eventually leads to a reward – the release of endorphins and other feel good neurochemicals. Reward reinforces the wanting and seeking behavior that, in turn, leads to more reward. This is called a dopamine loop and it can be incredibly addictive.

Whether it’s wanting and seeking more validation of ever increasing love bombing in person or via text or on social media – you need more and more of it to get the same intense rush. Especially when everything is shiny and new, or rather, shiny and new narcissistic supply.

Therefore, when dating, resist the urge to text excessively. First, if you’ve met someone who’s not a personality disordered abuser, you’re setting yourself up for disappointment. For example, you find each other on one of those god awful apps. And then you text each other like teenagers for two weeks before the first coffee date.

Dopamine! Dopamine!! DOPAMINE!!!

No normal human being of reasonable attractiveness can live up to a 2 week long dopamine binge. Regardless of how kind, intelligent and interesting they actually are. She or he will likely disappoint due to the unrealistic anticipation of the texting dopamine high.

Second, let’s say Dopamine Damsel or Dopamine Dude, does meet your wild expectations. She or he could very well be your next #narcissist, #borderline or #histrionic nutter. In order to keep the dopamine loop looping, the reward needs to be obtained and then increased. And who can top the intensity of the pre-meet text-fest in person?

A person who can be intensely charming, intensely engaging and intensely provocative, flirtatious and seductive. Someone who’ll contort and shape shift themselves (i.e., #mirroring) into being anything and everything they think you want them to be to get you to fall in love with them. Again, it’s likely to be another #NPD, #BPD or #HPD nightmare.

Third, a person who’s willing and/or able to begin texting a stranger excessively from morning to night, well, I have questions. Like do they have a job? Friends, family or pets? Anything in their life that requires attention and responsibility? Do they have impulse control and self-restraint? The ability for delayed gratification? Hobbies and interests that don’t involve their phones, social media and dating apps?

Best case scenario, it’s another #codependent looking for their next intense dopamine relationship disaster. Worst case scenario, it’s the next disaster.

#AbuseHasNoGender

Looking for a device for simple chatting? Enter the Beepberry — the fusion of a backlit BlackBerry Classic keyboard (with the logo button and all) and mini-touchpad, a Raspberry Pi Zero W, and a Sharp Memory LCD 400x240 screen. Some assembly required, rubber band not included, but it might be perfect for keeping in touch without the usual smartphone distractions.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/05/its-a-raspberry-pi-a-blackberry-keyboard-and-a-battery-its-the-beepberry/
#Beepberry #Texting

#texting someone is using that persons #cli

#programming

I'm reading #ThomasHardy right now. #ClassicBooks are a window into the times. They also reveal nuances in #CommunicationStyles of the time. I ran across an excerpt which piqued my interest in modern #communications. I wonder how much #NonverbalCommunication we lose nowadays because of #SocialMedia, #Texting, etc? How many more conversations nowadays are misinterpreted because of the missing factor of non-verbal communication? #Miscommunication #ModernCommunication

In work chat everyone types 'lunch' when it's lunch so we can see and stagger our lunches

Everyone types "lunch" when it's lunch
But I type "Going to lunch" when it's my lunchtime
Am I doing this because I am individualistic or because I value specificity of data?

#autistic #texting #communication

Why are so many people #Texting and #Driving or talking on their cellphones behind the wheel 🛞? I don't understand it. Maybe I'm becoming the old guy screaming 📢 #GetOffMyLawn. #StaySafe 🇨🇦

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2023/apr/22/robo-texts-scams-bank-accounts?utm_source=pocket-newtab #scams #texting #textscams