Anonymous wrote:

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.

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.

Anonymous wrote:What's worse is that I don't have an iPhone, so when people like one of my texts, it literally repeats the text to me. I hate it.

Example:

My text to Larla: "Happy Birthday"
The text I get back: Liked "Happy Birthday"

Or worse: Laughed at "Happy Birthday"

I do have an iphone, but I am in group texts with people who don't. This happens to the iphone people too.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do you mean someone took the time to “like” thirteen text bubbles individually????!!

Yes I agree that is straight up overkill.

However just one to acknowledge the person read my text is okay.

* I didn’t know that those who do not have an iPhone cannot see the liked symbol at all!

Yes, people like this are awful. My sister does it so she can have the last word, in a weird twisted way. We'll be in a group text message, and she will literally search for something she didn't like/live/laugh at after everyone just so her 'response' is last. It drives me bonkers.

What!!! She acknowledges everything with "likes"? Wow, what an awful awful miserable waste of a human being. Poor you for having such an awful sister.

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.

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".

This is a valid use of the like option. But I have a friend or 2 in a group chat who constantly likes individual messages. What’s worse is that it influences other people to do this. Agree that it can be an attention seeking thing, unlike acknowledging a text from a friend who has taken your kid with their kid to the park that states:

Hey! We are leaving the park.

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".

+1

Same.

Anonymous wrote:If you don't like reactions like heart/thumbs up to your texts, YOU ARE SENDING TOO MANY TEXTS about dumb, unimportant stuff.

Ask yourself why you are sending someone a picture of banana bread that you made. And then ask yourself, what could they possibly say to that beyond a thumbs up? What do you want from them?

Texting is not Instagram. Repeat that mantra to yourself until you can break YOUR annoying habit.

The point is that Android users don't see the hearts and thumbs. They get the message repeated back to them.

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".

Anonymous wrote:If you don't like reactions like heart/thumbs up to your texts, YOU ARE SENDING TOO MANY TEXTS about dumb, unimportant stuff.

Ask yourself why you are sending someone a picture of banana bread that you made. And then ask yourself, what could they possibly say to that beyond a thumbs up? What do you want from them?

Texting is not Instagram. Repeat that mantra to yourself until you can break YOUR annoying habit.

I genuinely don't understand why my friend from college feels the need to send me these types of updates daily. Do you heavy-texters ever just...live life?

If you don't like reactions like heart/thumbs up to your texts, YOU ARE SENDING TOO MANY TEXTS about dumb, unimportant stuff.

Ask yourself why you are sending someone a picture of banana bread that you made. And then ask yourself, what could they possibly say to that beyond a thumbs up? What do you want from them?

Texting is not Instagram. Repeat that mantra to yourself until you can break YOUR annoying habit.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do you mean someone took the time to “like” thirteen text bubbles individually????!!

Yes I agree that is straight up overkill.

However just one to acknowledge the person read my text is okay.

* I didn’t know that those who do not have an iPhone cannot see the liked symbol at all!

Yes, people like this are awful. My sister does it so she can have the last word, in a weird twisted way. We'll be in a group text message, and she will literally search for something she didn't like/live/laugh at after everyone just so her 'response' is last. It drives me bonkers.

Yeah, your sister sounds like an awful human. Just horrific, I’m so sorry you have to deal with that.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What's worse is that I don't have an iPhone, so when people like one of my texts, it literally repeats the text to me. I hate it.

Example:

My text to Larla: "Happy Birthday"
The text I get back: Liked "Happy Birthday"

Or worse: Laughed at "Happy Birthday"

That's your problem! Get an iPhone!

Do all android phones do this??? That seems really backwards — or is your phone just really old?

Anonymous wrote:Do you mean someone took the time to “like” thirteen text bubbles individually????!!

Yes I agree that is straight up overkill.

However just one to acknowledge the person read my text is okay.

* I didn’t know that those who do not have an iPhone cannot see the liked symbol at all!

My parents always do this! I’ve subconsciously started sending big blocks of text to cut down on this.

Anonymous wrote:What's worse is that I don't have an iPhone, so when people like one of my texts, it literally repeats the text to me. I hate it.

Example:

My text to Larla: "Happy Birthday"
The text I get back: Liked "Happy Birthday"

Or worse: Laughed at "Happy Birthday"

That's your problem! Get an iPhone!