Why Do People Still Text
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Do I expect an 8 - 24 hour response
email
Do I expect a 5 min - 2hr response
text
Do I need to talk to someone this instant
call
Do I want to see if casual acquaintances want drinks
Social media message
I feel like the platforms are used to communicate unspoken expectations.
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@jim9500 said in Why Do People Still Text:
Do I expect a 5 min - 1mo response
text
I don't agree here. Not isolated, anyway. It's "do I expect a quick response if I get a response, but am okay with no response at all or waiting weeks as it can't be critical if I chose those channel.*"
I say this as I regularly see this as the "channel that gets ignored" unless communications is already coordinated through a more robust channel, and easily a quarter of people who respond this way to me take weeks or months to get back (for real) because it's not taken as a serious methodology.
I also find this to be the channel that people silence because it's seen as trivial communications.
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@jim9500 said in Why Do People Still Text:
I feel like the platforms are used to communicate unspoken expectations.
I agree....
Text... because someone in the communications channel is confused and pushing a poor method because they never consider how to communicate well.
Email... when something is important enough to communicate well.
Call.... when it's an all out emergency that doesn't require communicating any amount of information or the caller is just rude and inconsiderate.
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@jim9500 this is how i see it as well and and is also how others behave in regard to communications with me.
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Probably just depends on how others you usually communicate with use that certain technology in the end.
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@jmoore said in Why Do People Still Text:
@jim9500 this is how i see it as well and and is also how others behave in regard to communications with me.
Pretty much everyone I talk to says that's how they see those channels, but it is almost never how they behave when using them.
It's also a bit weird, since typically email seems to be reliably faster than texting. People don't tend to look too closely, but I pay a lot of attention and email seems to regularly be equal or faster than texting. It's extremely rare that I see an email delay over say two minutes. But not unheard of for texting delays of an hour or two.
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@jmoore said in Why Do People Still Text:
Probably just depends on how others you usually communicate with use that certain technology in the end.
That's the key thing, with communications, you are often "stuck" with the choices of the least capable, least thinking party in a scenario. If you can convince grandparents to only talk on Facebook, suddenly everyone has to have Facebook because that's what your grandparents use and you can't change them no matter how good or bad it is.
This is how texting seems to have taken hold. There was a huge marketing push to get certain groups to use it and force charges on people who didn't want it and couldn't turn it off, so those people were forced to pay for it, and they've continued to encourage it as a lock in mechanism.
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@jim9500 said in Why Do People Still Text:
Do I expect an 8 - 24 hour response
email
Do I expect a 5 min - 2hr response
text
Do I need to talk to someone this instant
call
Do I want to see if casual acquaintances want drinks
Social media message
I feel like the platforms are used to communicate unspoken expectations.
This is why I like Slack. It fits for them all plus more in the enterprise. Everyone has it, so you don't need to worry about that part of it.
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@Obsolesce Yeah I love Slack for that reason too. Slack is always a better experience for all involved from my viewpoint.
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@scottalanmiller said in Why Do People Still Text:
That's the key thing, with communications, you are often "stuck" with the choices of the least capable, least thinking party in a scenario.
Yeah I'm sure that's a factor as well. For example, anyone that i text will get back to me in less than an hour on a regular basis. Most of the time its within 5 min.
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@Obsolesce said in Why Do People Still Text:
This is why I like Slack. It fits for them all plus more in the enterprise. Everyone has it, so you don't need to worry about that part of it.
I don't actually know many people with Slack. Almost none, in fact. As a company, we have only one person with access to it for clients and they relay messages for the rest when needed. So even as an IT company, it comes up rarely... and now that Teams has passed it (in usage, not quality) it seems to be fading.
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@Obsolesce said in Why Do People Still Text:
This is why I like Slack.
What literally everyone says about their primary pet message platform. Some people want everything encrypted on Signal, some people want to be dudebros with slack, some people want to email me which I never respond to unless it's important (& just hope it goes away), then some people message me on hangouts, some people message me after realizing my voicemail is full (on purpose)
How long until managers decide to use snapchat for the morale boost of being able to use cat ears? My voicemail is full & I leave it that way, I don't respond to emails, I am getting to the point where I just let people walk into my office if they need me.
When everyone picks a method, literally don't care if it's damned messenger pigeons, I will pay attention to on demand communication methods again. Until then I have no doubt we'll go from dozens to hundreds, probably speakers at our computer yelling at us, webcam lights blinking different colors depending on AIs evaluation of importance, geeks preferring morse code via phone vibrations etc
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@jim9500 said in Why Do People Still Text:
Do I expect an 8 - 24 hour response
email
Do I expect a 5 min - 2hr response
text
Do I need to talk to someone this instant
call
Do I want to see if casual acquaintances want drinks
Social media message
I feel like the platforms are used to communicate unspoken expectations.
This is really how I do a lot of things, except the last. I don't use Social Media to contact anyone for anything.
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Oh thats right, i don't do social media either. I didn't read that very thoroughly. Need to turn my voicemail off too, good idea.
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@scottalanmiller said in Why Do People Still Text:
@Obsolesce said in Why Do People Still Text:
This is why I like Slack. It fits for them all plus more in the enterprise. Everyone has it, so you don't need to worry about that part of it.
I don't actually know many people with Slack. Almost none, in fact. As a company, we have only one person with access to it for clients and they relay messages for the rest when needed. So even as an IT company, it comes up rarely... and now that Teams has passed it (in usage, not quality) it seems to be fading.
We'll yeah, it's not great for those who don't use it. I meant if a company is all using it, it's great, because it works so well then.
