Text Manipulation

The idea of text manipulating is that one person (male or female) sends another person a "mistake" text to start up a conversation. "Oh I accidentally sent you that text, but now that we're talking how have you been?" I'm fairly sure I've done that before. It's thought that you tend to do this to start up that conversation with a person of interest. Here are my thoughts on texting.

I text with everyone. It seems to be the norm these days. I have a select few friends that I talk to on the phone but I can count those people on my 2 hands. I communicate with everyone else via text. That includes my boss! I mean I use texting as my sole communication with old friends, new friends, work related friends and even some family. Believe me, if it was an emergency or important I would call. My husband and I text but when we're not together we usually call one another rather than text.

To be honest, when single I never manipulated text because texting wasn't as HUGE as it is now. I feel so old saying that but in high school, sure we had cell phones but we called one another. I don't remember texting until at least my 2nd year of college. When I say texting I mean to the extreme that it is now. So sending a "fake" start up text was never an option for me. But if I were single now, I wouldn't know what to do. I'm sure I'd text gentlemen here and there but I doubt it would be to start up a conversation. I'm pretty balsy when it comes to the opposite sex so starting up a conversation wouldn't be my problem. I'm sure that sounds so cocky but I guess to me, putting myself out there is what I know. Sending the "Hi Natalie, what's up?" to a guy just to begin talking isn't really my style. Plus I guess it feels like game playing to me, which I used to avoid back in my dating days.

I guess I'm old fashioned. I would rather talk on the phone or meet up and talk than text 2000 texts in a night. It just seems so hard! I get it, it's fun to text but I really think the thrill is saying something you normally wouldn't say. People get pretty secure with themselves via text because it's an easy outlet. They don't have to deal with the person one on one. If they don't like the response, they have ample time to fix their comment or come up with an excuse that would better suit the other person. For example, I would feel more comfortable texting "Hey mom, I can't make it to your 50th birthday because I got sick. I'll make it up to you" rather than call her and feel guilty and have to come up with excuses, etc etc etc. So while I text a lot, I know what's worth a phone call or even a visit. I know the limitations of 160 characters and I keep those important messages personal.
EMM