Why Do People Still Text
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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.
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@Obsolesce said in Why Do People Still Text:
@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.
Sure, but lots of things do well there, too. Slack being very good, for sure. But Slack at one company still means all those people are using other things for other things for other communications, normally. Even at customers that we have with Slack... we often use other things to chat as Slack is only so so .
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@jmoore said in Why Do People Still Text:
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.
I use social media. But never for communications
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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.
In general I agree with this list.
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@scottalanmiller said in Why Do People Still Text:
@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.
huh, Texting for some people is definitely ignored, but I wouldn't say that's the general rule, in my circles. texting normally gets the fastest response. Email - again, depends on the person - We have a new lady at work who must be jacked in 24/7... she seems to respond to email within seconds - we don't text, so I have no idea what responses would be like there. Though, I'm positive that our providers all text her constantly, and she is likely responding fast to them.
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@scottalanmiller said in Why Do People Still Text:
@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.
Why are we in the US so stuck on this, when places like Brazil rely 90%+ on things like What'sapps?
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@Obsolesce said in Why Do People Still Text:
@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.
not everyone has it. and I hate slack, just like I hate discord. All those channels to watch, just to much noise - and I thought FB had a tonne of shite on it! it ain't got shit on slack/discord/teams, etc.
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@jmoore said in Why Do People Still Text:
@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.
I will admit - if I don't respond to a text the min I see it (which could be as soon as it's received by my phone, could be hours later) I likely will never respond to it.
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@JaredBusch said in Why Do People Still Text:
@jmoore said in Why Do People Still Text:
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.
I use social media. But never for communications
This is where I'm completely different - I use FB messenger more than any other communication method, with possible exception of telegram - where I chat with so many of you. I don't have any other communication methods available for 90% of my FB contacts...
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@Dashrender said in Why Do People Still Text:
@Obsolesce said in Why Do People Still Text:
@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.
not everyone has it. and I hate slack, just like I hate discord. All those channels to watch, just to much noise - and I thought FB had a tonne of shite on it! it ain't got shit on slack/discord/teams, etc.
Yes, if you read correctly, you'd have seen I meant that in a given enterprise that uses slack as a company wide communication tool which ships it on all user devices, everyone has it. I did not mean everyone in the world has it. I thought I provided enough context to make that clear. My fault I guess.
And there is no clutter at all. Well, I suppose that depends on how it's managed. If fools set it up and manage it, then yes I can see it won't work well... just like many things, though.
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@Obsolesce said in Why Do People Still Text:
@Dashrender said in Why Do People Still Text:
@Obsolesce said in Why Do People Still Text:
@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.
not everyone has it. and I hate slack, just like I hate discord. All those channels to watch, just to much noise - and I thought FB had a tonne of shite on it! it ain't got shit on slack/discord/teams, etc.
Yes, if you read correctly, you'd have seen I meant that in a given enterprise that uses slack as a company wide communication tool which ships it on all user devices, everyone has it. I did not mean everyone in the world has it. I thought I provided enough context to make that clear. My fault I guess.
And there is no clutter at all. Well, I suppose that depends on how it's managed. If fools set it up and manage it, then yes I can see it won't work well... just like many things, though.
yeah, you did mention that in a followup post to Scott. But, as Scott mentioned, you're basically forcing all those people to use a minimum of two methods because it's rare that your outside contacts have Slack, so you have to move to that other method to communicate with them.
This fracturing of communications is just a huge PITA.
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@Dashrender said in Why Do People Still Text:
@Obsolesce said in Why Do People Still Text:
@Dashrender said in Why Do People Still Text:
@Obsolesce said in Why Do People Still Text:
@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.
not everyone has it. and I hate slack, just like I hate discord. All those channels to watch, just to much noise - and I thought FB had a tonne of shite on it! it ain't got shit on slack/discord/teams, etc.
Yes, if you read correctly, you'd have seen I meant that in a given enterprise that uses slack as a company wide communication tool which ships it on all user devices, everyone has it. I did not mean everyone in the world has it. I thought I provided enough context to make that clear. My fault I guess.
And there is no clutter at all. Well, I suppose that depends on how it's managed. If fools set it up and manage it, then yes I can see it won't work well... just like many things, though.
yeah, you did mention that in a followup post to Scott. But, as Scott mentioned, you're basically forcing all those people to use a minimum of two methods because it's rare that your outside contacts have Slack, so you have to move to that other method to communicate with them.
This fracturing of communications is just a huge PITA.
OH sorry, I see now. No I was not referring to outside contacts. I meant strictly internally.
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@Obsolesce said in Why Do People Still Text:
And there is no clutter at all. Well, I suppose that depends on how it's managed. If fools set it up and manage it, then yes I can see it won't work well... just like many things, though.
I'm less familiar with Slack, only used it twice for about 1 min total.. but discord - I'm a member of three groups, and each of those groups have like 20 subgroups.. to me that is a bloody mess.
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@Obsolesce said in Why Do People Still Text:
@Dashrender said in Why Do People Still Text:
@Obsolesce said in Why Do People Still Text:
@Dashrender said in Why Do People Still Text:
@Obsolesce said in Why Do People Still Text:
@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.
not everyone has it. and I hate slack, just like I hate discord. All those channels to watch, just to much noise - and I thought FB had a tonne of shite on it! it ain't got shit on slack/discord/teams, etc.
Yes, if you read correctly, you'd have seen I meant that in a given enterprise that uses slack as a company wide communication tool which ships it on all user devices, everyone has it. I did not mean everyone in the world has it. I thought I provided enough context to make that clear. My fault I guess.
And there is no clutter at all. Well, I suppose that depends on how it's managed. If fools set it up and manage it, then yes I can see it won't work well... just like many things, though.
yeah, you did mention that in a followup post to Scott. But, as Scott mentioned, you're basically forcing all those people to use a minimum of two methods because it's rare that your outside contacts have Slack, so you have to move to that other method to communicate with them.
This fracturing of communications is just a huge PITA.
OH sorry, I see now. No I was not referring to outside contacts. I meant strictly internally.
I suppose Slack could make in-house communication better than email - forced pre-setup groups for specific messaging.. I haven't used it enough like that to know.
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@Dashrender said in Why Do People Still Text:
@Obsolesce said in Why Do People Still Text:
And there is no clutter at all. Well, I suppose that depends on how it's managed. If fools set it up and manage it, then yes I can see it won't work well... just like many things, though.
I'm less familiar with Slack, only used it twice for about 1 min total.. but discord - I'm a member of three groups, and each of those groups have like 20 subgroups.. to me that is a bloody mess.
Discord I can say can be a cluster F. If there's a way to rid all the game xrap forced in your face, it'd be so much better.
