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PEOPLE BE WEIRD. If I say that once a day I say it ten times.
So keeping that thought in mind, let me tell you what’s floating around in my brain this morning. It’s not a big thing, but one that’s got me a’wondering…
How far out of touch am I?
Or alternately…
How self-absorbed are people these days?
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HERE’S WHAT HAPPENED. Instagram suggested that I might want to follow a new-to-me person so I went to see who this was. In the process of doing so I came upon a long conversation in a comment section below a photo there.
The conversation in the comment section wasn’t about the photo. No, the people commenting were talking about how they hate, hate, hate receiving one specific short text from their friends and family.
The offensive text was: “hi!”
That’s it. Nothing more. Just this one word was enough for these commenters to feel put upon…
To the point of complaining about it.
And the people who sent it to them.
And the awfulness of such a rude text message.
When I read through these 30+ comments my first thought was that certainly someone here is going to defend the sender of the allegedly disruptive text message, but no one did.
It was universally agreed among these people that this “hi!” text was a bad. thing. to. do. And oh the vitriol about it. Oy vey!
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I SHALL CONCLUDE. I get that some people gotta have something to whine about no matter what, so maybe this was an example of that.
I also am aware that some friends and family don’t understand personal boundaries, so they can be a bother until you tell them how it’s going to be.
But honestly I’m confused about how a “hi!” text could make any person so miserable that this person would feel the need to bash the person who sent it.
Couldn’t you ignore the text– or answer it with a “later” reply text? I mean if you leave it to me, EZPZ problem [if there really is one] solved.
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So what am I missing here? In what way is texting “hi!” offensive? ‘Cuz to me this seems like a text tempest in a teapot.
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