I hate people who "love" or "like" everything on text messages.

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Anonymous wrote:Maybe everyone knows this, but if you hold down the blue arrow on your text messages, it gives you options for all these fun text effects like invisible ink, and screen effects like confetti.

Do you have an iPhone? That's not the case on my Samsung.

Not in my Samsung or my pixel.

iPhone users always assume their phone is the default. I got stuck in a very dumb group text thread mostly from people I didn't know. On an iPhone you can remove yourself from the group but you can't on an Android. It was infuriating and it took several times for me to explain that I needed them to remove me.

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Anonymous wrote:Everyone I know just uses the "like" as an acknowledgment of seeing the text.

As in:

Friend: "I'll pick your son up at 10am".
Me" "like".

Same. Or my brother sends me a pic of his new baby - who I have not yet gotten to meet, thanks to COVID - and I "love" it because that seems like the appropriate response. He knows I saw the pic, he knows I am having a positive reaction, what else am I supposed to say?

And to the PP: People are sending you pics of their food because they miss you and want to connect in a low key normal life sort of way. People being busy and living far apart made that hard to do before COVID. Now it's basically impossible. So we share small parts of our lives with other people so we feel connected, still. I'm sure if you told your college friend you don't like, love, or give two f*cks about her banana bread, she'd stop sending them. Or just don't respond - don't like or love the pics, don't ask a question - and she'll get the hint you are too important and busy for her little life.

Do you get that...THAT IS WHAT SOCIAL MEDIA IS FOR? Social media is for "sharing small parts of our lives with other people so we feel connected." When I have some free time, I scroll a bit, and look, there's your banana bread. That's nice.

What's not nice is me having to look at my phone when it pings in case it is my elderly mother needing help, or daycare telling me about an urgent update, or my boss asking me to send him slides while he is in an in-progress meeting, and seeing your damn banana bread.

Jeez louise. This seems a little overwrought.

Acting like your banana bread is need-to-know-now is also a bit much. There are literally platforms built for your banana bread. Go avail yourself of them.

NP. Please put the group on DND. Or, leave the group.