"Don't Text Me So Early!"

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, it's common courtesy to not text someone super early or super late. Your train of thought does not deserve attention at all hours of day or night. People have legitimate reasons for not silencing their phones.

"Being too stupid to understand a simple piece of technology" is not a valid reason.

+100

But the flip side of that coin is that she just could have scheduled her text to send at 9. That's just as easy, and takes the burden off the recipient.

Burden on the recipient?! Jesus just set your own settings. Are you this high maintenance in other areas of your life?

Be in charge of your own time.

Would you text your boss at 5:00 am and insist that he/she is wrong to be annoyed if you woke them up? Of course, you wouldn't!! You reserve this kind of entitled behavior for family and friends.

Yeah, I do text mangers and colleagues at off hours. Everyone does.

No, not everyone does. Stop justifying your lack of manners by attributing it to "everyone" baselessly.

Our firm has a very hard and fast rule about this. No texts or even emails between 6 pm and 9 am. And more and more companies are deploying similar rules. They have to because Gen Z has no sense of boundaries or how to behave politely and appropriately.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I text anytime. Do not disturb exists for a reason. I live on the West Coast. The rest of my family is on the East Coast. I turn my phone off because I get texts at all hours.

I have a family member in poor health so I can’t use do not disturb.

It’s rude to text before 7 or after 9. Unless you know it’s ok to text early/late, use the same courtesy that you’d use for calling someone on a landline.

You can create 100% custom settings. It’s not equivalent at ALL to a land kine - totally different technology. Or have someone call you on your home phone line in case of a true emergency.

Allow only unknown numbers?

You may not think you’re being rude if you text super early or super late, but you are. No matter how you try to rationalize it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I text anytime. Do not disturb exists for a reason. I live on the West Coast. The rest of my family is on the East Coast. I turn my phone off because I get texts at all hours.

I have a family member in poor health so I can’t use do not disturb.

It’s rude to text before 7 or after 9. Unless you know it’s ok to text early/late, use the same courtesy that you’d use for calling someone on a landline.

You can create 100% custom settings. It’s not equivalent at ALL to a land kine - totally different technology. Or have someone call you on your home phone line in case of a true emergency.

Wait a minute. Are you the same person who keeps slamming "old" people for not knowing how to use their phones and calling them buffoons? If you are, and you have a landline, I don't even know what to say to you. Who in their right mind pays for a landline phone?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I text anytime. Do not disturb exists for a reason. I live on the West Coast. The rest of my family is on the East Coast. I turn my phone off because I get texts at all hours.

I have a family member in poor health so I can’t use do not disturb.

It’s rude to text before 7 or after 9. Unless you know it’s ok to text early/late, use the same courtesy that you’d use for calling someone on a landline.

Nope. Turn your phone off if you don’t want to be disturbed.

Are you also the person who insists on speaking on speaker phones in public spaces and insists that if we are disturbed WE should use headphones? Because you're ridiculous.

+1

Totally

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I text anytime. Do not disturb exists for a reason. I live on the West Coast. The rest of my family is on the East Coast. I turn my phone off because I get texts at all hours.

I have a family member in poor health so I can’t use do not disturb.

It’s rude to text before 7 or after 9. Unless you know it’s ok to text early/late, use the same courtesy that you’d use for calling someone on a landline.

Nope. Turn your phone off if you don’t want to be disturbed.

Don’t disturb people at inappropriate times.

Turn your damn phone off if you can't be disturbed. It's not that difficult

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do you all know how to use your iPhones?

To those of you saying you need to keep your phone on in case someone important to you calls- add them to your favorites. If they are in your favorites then they will not be silenced but all other calls/texts not in your favorites will be.

You can use the sleep function to set it for time to go to ‘sleep’ and a time to ‘wake up’ automatically. You can pick different times for different days.

Lastly, if you don’t want to add a person to your favorites they can still bypass the silence function by calling 3 times in a row. If it’s important they’ll keep calling. And people don’t text if it’s a true emergency.

PS. It will show up to the person texting you that your phone is silenced. No need to worry that anyone is expecting you to see and respond to the text.

Now welcome to 2024. Please adjust your phone settings.

You spend entirely too much time managing your phone settings. Must be nice having so much free time.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Do you all know how to use your iPhones?

To those of you saying you need to keep your phone on in case someone important to you calls- add them to your favorites. If they are in your favorites then they will not be silenced but all other calls/texts not in your favorites will be.

You can use the sleep function to set it for time to go to ‘sleep’ and a time to ‘wake up’ automatically. You can pick different times for different days.

Lastly, if you don’t want to add a person to your favorites they can still bypass the silence function by calling 3 times in a row. If it’s important they’ll keep calling. And people don’t text if it’s a true emergency.

PS. It will show up to the person texting you that your phone is silenced. No need to worry that anyone is expecting you to see and respond to the text.

Now welcome to 2024. Please adjust your phone settings.

Manners are still relevant in 2024. You should introduce yourself to some.

+1

Not everyone lives in that rigid little worldview PP crafted.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Do you all know how to use your iPhones?

To those of you saying you need to keep your phone on in case someone important to you calls- add them to your favorites. If they are in your favorites then they will not be silenced but all other calls/texts not in your favorites will be.

You can use the sleep function to set it for time to go to ‘sleep’ and a time to ‘wake up’ automatically. You can pick different times for different days.

Lastly, if you don’t want to add a person to your favorites they can still bypass the silence function by calling 3 times in a row. If it’s important they’ll keep calling. And people don’t text if it’s a true emergency.

PS. It will show up to the person texting you that your phone is silenced. No need to worry that anyone is expecting you to see and respond to the text.

Now welcome to 2024. Please adjust your phone settings.

You spend entirely too much time managing your phone settings. Must be nice having so much free time.

Seriously. Who does this daily?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I text anytime. Do not disturb exists for a reason. I live on the West Coast. The rest of my family is on the East Coast. I turn my phone off because I get texts at all hours.

I have a family member in poor health so I can’t use do not disturb.

It’s rude to text before 7 or after 9. Unless you know it’s ok to text early/late, use the same courtesy that you’d use for calling someone on a landline.

Nope. Turn your phone off if you don’t want to be disturbed.

Don’t disturb people at inappropriate times.

Turn your damn phone off if you can't be disturbed. It's not that difficult

I can’t because I have a family member in poor health and need to take the calls. The person calling isn’t always in my contacts.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I text anytime. Do not disturb exists for a reason. I live on the West Coast. The rest of my family is on the East Coast. I turn my phone off because I get texts at all hours.

I have a family member in poor health so I can’t use do not disturb.

It’s rude to text before 7 or after 9. Unless you know it’s ok to text early/late, use the same courtesy that you’d use for calling someone on a landline.

Nope. Turn your phone off if you don’t want to be disturbed.

Don’t disturb people at inappropriate times.

Turn your damn phone off if you can't be disturbed. It's not that difficult

Don’t send messages that are needed at hours that are very hour. It’s not that difficult.
You aren’t that important, either.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I text anytime. Do not disturb exists for a reason. I live on the West Coast. The rest of my family is on the East Coast. I turn my phone off because I get texts at all hours.

I have a family member in poor health so I can’t use do not disturb.

It’s rude to text before 7 or after 9. Unless you know it’s ok to text early/late, use the same courtesy that you’d use for calling someone on a landline.

Nope. Turn your phone off if you don’t want to be disturbed.

Don’t disturb people at inappropriate times.

+1

Don’t be a self-absorbed dick.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I text anytime. Do not disturb exists for a reason. I live on the West Coast. The rest of my family is on the East Coast. I turn my phone off because I get texts at all hours.

Manners and common sense exist for a reason.

You do know you are just as likely to be disturbing someone at 2pm as you are at 7 am, right? My FIL died on Saturday and I have been in meetings all day with various people. Each text is a disturbance, but the sender doesn't know. That's why DND exists.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I text anytime. Do not disturb exists for a reason. I live on the West Coast. The rest of my family is on the East Coast. I turn my phone off because I get texts at all hours.

I have a family member in poor health so I can’t use do not disturb.

It’s rude to text before 7 or after 9. Unless you know it’s ok to text early/late, use the same courtesy that you’d use for calling someone on a landline.

Nope. Turn your phone off if you don’t want to be disturbed.

Don’t disturb people at inappropriate times.

Turn your damn phone off if you can't be disturbed. It's not that difficult

I can’t because I have a family member in poor health and need to take the calls. The person calling isn’t always in my contacts.

Yes you can. You just don't want to.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I text anytime. Do not disturb exists for a reason. I live on the West Coast. The rest of my family is on the East Coast. I turn my phone off because I get texts at all hours.

I have a family member in poor health so I can’t use do not disturb.

It’s rude to text before 7 or after 9. Unless you know it’s ok to text early/late, use the same courtesy that you’d use for calling someone on a landline.

Actually, you can. You just don't know how to.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes, it's common courtesy to not text someone super early or super late. Your train of thought does not deserve attention at all hours of day or night. People have legitimate reasons for not silencing their phones.

"Being too stupid to understand a simple piece of technology" is not a valid reason.

+100

But the flip side of that coin is that she just could have scheduled her text to send at 9. That's just as easy, and takes the burden off the recipient.

That feature does not exist.

I assure you it does, I use it all the time for exactly this reason. Long press on the "send" arrow and the scheduling menu pops up.