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CCP Meets T&T
Mia and My
Pedro and Alex
Joining us today all the way from Texas is Pedro and Alex! These two are former podcasters from the show Topics and Tacos and we thought it would be fitting that half way through the season we’d do our first collaboration! As you can tell by the title, we’re discussing texting, and specifically texting etiquette. We have a lot of varying opinions of what is proper or improper when it comes to texting and everyone, except myself, Mia, agree that it is straight up wrong to leave someone on read! But let’s go into reasons we’re for or against some things and we’ll let you decide, is it jerk or justified?
Leaving people on read..
Jerk- Pedro, Alex, Myzsa
Jerk: What is so difficult about responding, even if it’s a quick message, or just saying you’re busy and you’ll respond later. It is rude and hurtful to leave someone without messaging back, it shows that their message is not important to you.
Justified- Maria
Justified: Not responding is just another way to end the conversation, sometimes it’s just easier to not respond.
Long paragraphs…
Jerk- Pedro, Alex, Myzsa
Jerk: Long paragraphs are never good and if it’s that serious, call instead!!
Justified- Maria
Justified: Sometimes it’s easier to put everything down in a message, that way you can write it and review it and say everything you need to say at once. Also long messages do not always have to be negative. Sometimes after a great day with someone you want to send a long message about how much you love and appreciate them!
Hating messaging people with Samsung phones…
Jerk- Alex, Maria
Jerk: It’s not necessarily something to hate, while there are many cons to messaging Samsung, it’s not that serious.
Justified- Pedro, Myzsa
Justified: This is the absolute worst! You can’t do reactions to their messages with out it being like “Myzsa emphasized_____”. Also it ruins group chats because the messages are green, you can’t respond to specific messages, and you cannot change group chat names!
Sending messages, memes, video, etc late at night…
Jerk- None
Justified- Pedro, Alex, Myzsa, Maria
Justified: If we are friends I should be able to message you at any time of the day. I, Maria, personally go to bed early but I leave my phone on do not disturb so if those messages are sent it won’t wake me and I’ll respond later. Myzsa and Pedro however are usually the ones sending the pictures and videos late at night, it got to the point where they both were saving the videos or setting alarms to remind them to send the message are a more convenient time.
Being on social media after saying good night to someone…
Jerk- None
Justified- Pedro, Alex, Myzsa, Maria
Justified: Myzsa usually will say “I’m going to bed, aka Im going to stay up and watch Tik Tok or YouTube and send you videos.” This is one of those ones were its justified and there doesn’t really need to be a reason to explain it, we all have a mutual understanding that when you say goodnight its to that one person and doesn’t necessarily mean your night is over.