I usually keep my texts short and with lots of spelling errors. And I almost always send them with a monotone in my head.

On the flip side I usually think reading texts should be a short task. Unless you’re arriving arguing with someone I guess, but that should really be done in person.

So much text in one message comes across as monologuing. It makes sense that someone would only be interested if it involves something they’re very interested in or passionate about.

The same amount of information broken up across several messages usually comes off better and invites a conversation. Especially if you wait for a response before going on with your subject.

Edit, also be open to the conversation moving away from the subject you wanted to go on about. Constantly moving the conversation back to your topic so you can finish your thought doesn’t work out well

Some people like it, some don’t. People think I’m weird that I text someone before calling, because I don’t want to call at a bad time.

Also, if you post to a community that is pretty quiet, once you do, it’s no longer quiet ;)

I feel like I’m the only one who shares things I’ve been up to recently and usually the responses I get back are passive at best. Then when I intentionally stop messaging them and waiting for someone else to say something first the group chat dies down for a week. I feel like it’s time to move on and leave these “friends” behind.

I used to, but people didn’t engage, so I stopped. Learned a few years ago to notice when someone doesn’t care (which is most of the time) and only engage when someone broached the topic.

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Hard to say without knowing the conversations or what the recipients are like.

Personally, I try to keep texts to quick messages, as I’m not one for text conversations. If someone started throwing blocks of text at me, expecting me to keep up the conversation, I’d just call them. If they didn’t want to talk, then it probably wouldn’t be long before I just stopped reading the texts.

I will be verbose if there is an actual keyboard under my fingers but unless I’m extremely invested in the topic and not also doing something else at that time I keep messages from my phone terse.

Sometimes. Good habit to share the energy with those who appreciate you back.

I like to watch this every once in a while if I start overthinking texts.

I have the same problem. I usually end up editing out a bunch of text, yet still end up with a wall of text. I’m sure there’s a balance in there somewhere between enough information and too much information. I also try to remove unnecessary words and phrases to be more concise. If you figure it out, let the rest of us know. 😊

Yeah I do that too. When I get really enthusiastic about something, I can talk about it for hours. So, it exists.

I was told it is apparently an ADHD thing. Because some people I used to meet, did the same thing, about their favorite topic each. So, it’s an ADHD thing, apparently.

But I’m glad you can bring up the mental energy to talk about a topic for a long time! That means you’re healthy :-) (imo)