Texting might be our preferred form of communication these days, but it just doesn’t cut it in every situation. Tone is near impossible to read with people you don’t know like the back of your hand. Things get skipped over and ignored, and let’s not forget the all the potential craziness that occur when screen shots go down. Basically, there are some things that you should just never discuss via text.
- Your relationship status. If your relationship is on the rocks, just call the guy, no matter whose decision it is to end things. Breakups are generally less stressful (at least slightly) with good communication and that isn’t going to happen when half of the text characters involved are the angry face emoji.
- Your affair. You already know that cheating is wrong, but leaving the evidence around is setting you up for major failure. Not only will it get you caught, your main man might actually see the cheating texts, which is not something you should wish upon anyone.
- Details about STDs. So you picked up a little bacterial infection somewhere and want to be a responsible adult and warn anyone you’ve been with recently? Good move, but make the call and avoid the paper trail in case one of those dudes isn’t thrilled with you right now.
- Birthday wishes. If someone is important in your life, they should be getting a phone call. Don’t worry, they be able to talk long, being that it’s their birthday and all. It’s the least you can do, really.
- Anything regrettable. (Unless it’s your best friend.) Just keep in mind that not everyone has their text messages set to private and sometimes those suckers pop up on the home screen in all their full glory.
- Starting an argument. If you ever got caught up in a three way phone call back in the day, then you know what kind of tricks girls can pull. Ideally, we’re way past that middle school drama but still, details about a fight you had don’t need to be on the loose in text world.
- Apologies. Simple apologies, sure, but anything that you want to be taken sincerely should be expressed sincerely.
- Booty calls. How many times have you woken up and regretted that drunk text you sent your ex? Yuck. If you know you have to call, you’re probably going to choose your words better… or not at all.
- Life-changing news. Don’t text your mom that you’re pregnant, your dad that you’re moving to Argentina, or your best friend that you just met the guy you’re going to marry.
- Passive-aggressive sentiments. First of all, being passive-aggressive never accomplishes anything besides pissing people off, but secondly, they’re probably just going to ignore it over text, which will only piss you off more.
- Anything super vague. If you want responses to your texts, then say what you mean and don’t leave too much space open for interpretation and response time.
