Email vs Texting

[ysabetwordsmith]

 Apparently most people use email very differently than I do.  I can see why they'd hate it if they only use it for things they hate, such as work.  For me, I love my work.  I don't have local friends, so my friendly relationships exist in email and blogs.  I hate all the short message options, because I hate short messages.  I don't think in soundbites.  The topics I enjoy discussing don't fit in soundbites.  I despise phones.  This is only partly because modern ones tend to break when I touch them, are all but unintelligible, and hurt my ears.  I hated phones before that; it's just worse now.  At least the old landline phones were usable. But email is great.  I can answer it at my convenience.  Discussions fit into it just fine.  I can go back to look at older ones if I need to.

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[gatheringrivers]

It's considered rude to simply call without texting first.

This!!!

I actually got in that habit about....uh....15 years ago? When I was working overnights. And being cognizant of the fact that most people weren't on my schedule.

I grew up with a parent who thought if I slept in past 9am there was SOMETHING FUNDAMENTALLY WRONG WITH ALL THE THINGS and....yea, I don't bug people when they're sleeping if I can help it. Because it was done to me A LOT.