Text Personality
Texting can be dangerous. Loss of tone, keyboard courage, and “receipts” as us milenials refer to proof. Through texting there have been plenty mishaps on my end. The countless amount of times I have screen-shotted a conversation between myself a someone fighting, trying to send it to another person and I by accident send it directly back to that person… awkward. That isn’t a factor with phone calls. Neither is keyboard courage. On text I will find myself typing up condescending texts at times, whereas in person I wouldn’t be as daring. Texting skips over our hololistic selves for sure. It creates a new person. A funny example of how texting can take on persona, is through my friend Emma. She is a very quiet, artsy sweet girl. Well my friend has a setting on her phone that only allows her texts to be undercase so she is never “digitally yelling”. So, when she is excited its “on brand” for her because she is always quite minimized and never animated. I could say “I GOT MY DREAM JO
