Anyone else getting text fatigue?

[Lance Uppercut]

Growing up, I thought it was just me who had the whole phone anxiety. So when texting and email became a thing, it was a godsend. Turns out it was my whole generation for some reason.

Anyways, the older I get, the more I’m dreading getting random texts and trying to keep up a chat/text based conversation is exhausting.

I’m still not a phone guy, but I’m morphing back to an email guy. It just feels like less pressure to respond. I can get back to you days or weeks later, and vice versa, and I have time to compose and organize my thoughts and I don’t feel bad about writing a long letter catching up instead of rapid fire texting and stopping for a reply. True is it a wall of text, but it’s not as daunting when you can read it on a computer and I can type it cleaner via a real keyboard.

Also, for some reason I don’t mind dm’ing via an app/website randomly compared to directly texting someone. Feels less personal. I guess it’s a hold over from when I just did from pc to pc instead of phone to phone where (like email) I figure they see it whenever they check their messages and open the website/app.

Me: why did… text me at 3 am in the morning?!

Also me: hey my friends messaged me on messenger/Instagram while I was sleeping, I wonder what funny thing they said

[Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!!]

I have OCD (genuine OCD, not just saying I have it). One of the issues I've developed because of it is that I absolutely NEED to respond to any text message I get as soon as I receive it (for VERY complicated psychological reasons; I'm working on it but its difficult). so when I'm trying to sit and enjoy a video game or read a book/comic I find it INCREDIBLY intrusive to receive texts, especially if the text isn't important. doubly so if it's a group chat I have with some of my best friends because I can expect dozens of messages about things I don't particularly care about, and its not exactly something I can set a boundary about. its definitely quicker/more convenient in general than calling people but I really do resent essentially having to be available on at least some level all day.

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Not sure if it's the same thing but I don't know how people keep track of 20+ servers on discord. I can hardly keep track of 5 of them.

I will say I'm still more of a text guy than a talk person. I'm the "DM me on Microsoft Teams" guy at my job.

[Ultimo Gallos]

Nah,but then I have sent at most 50 texts in my life. It is a phone i can talk on it why type a message. I want to send a typed message I got other better ways.

But I also finally got a smartphone 4 months back.

[Kalmia]

Aug 22, 2023 9:01:58 GMT -5 Sponsored by Groose Wipes said:

Not sure if it's the same thing but I don't know how people keep track of 20+ servers on discord. I can hardly keep track of 5 of them.

I will say I'm still more of a text guy than a talk person. I'm the "DM me on Microsoft Teams" guy at my job.

Yeah, I can't get on with Discord for this reason as well. So many of my friends on Twitter are all "catch me on Discord!" and every time my heart sinks. It's not a social media site. It's a live chat and I don't have the energy to keep up with a million different servers.

I hate having notifications that I haven't read so I've turned off notifications from a lot of apps. I sometimes put my phone on do not disturb as well, just so I don't feel the urge to immediately respond to things.

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Aug 22, 2023 9:44:52 GMT -5 Kalmia said:

Aug 22, 2023 9:01:58 GMT -5 Sponsored by Groose Wipes said:

Not sure if it's the same thing but I don't know how people keep track of 20+ servers on discord. I can hardly keep track of 5 of them.

I will say I'm still more of a text guy than a talk person. I'm the "DM me on Microsoft Teams" guy at my job.

Yeah, I can't get on with Discord for this reason as well. So many of my friends on Twitter are all "catch me on Discord!" and every time my heart sinks. It's not a social media site. It's a live chat and I don't have the energy to keep up with a million different servers.

I hate having notifications that I haven't read so I've turned off notifications from a lot of apps. I sometimes put my phone on do not disturb as well, just so I don't feel the urge to immediately respond to things.

Agree, I see discord as more of a skype or AIM chart if you all remember those days. It's a different beast from say a Twitter/X or Facebook.