I searched the forum for a thread on this and found a lot of others about texting in general but nothing specific to this so I'm going to start a new one. If this is in the wrong category someone correct me so it can possibly be moved to the right place.
This is something I've never really given much thought about prior to last night. I was doing a little online gaming with a girl on tinder and our conversation turned sour quickly. I asked her a few standard lazy questions using some of my normal textspeak words (u, ur, r, etc.) and she replied mostly with one word responses. I was tired and didn't see it going anywhere so I just told her, "I love your one word replies" to which she responded, "I knew you would. I love when people don't put the G on something that ends in inG. I also love it when people are too lazy to spell out 3 letter words like you and are."
I initially didn't know how to respond to this but ended up just telling her that we wouldn't get along and that I compose enough e-mails at work with perfect grammar, punctuation and spelling so when I'm outside of work I feel like taking the easier route (I'm thinking some may see it as just being lazy which it may be). Even though she wasn't really that good looking and I talked to her more out of boredom, she opened my eyes to a bigger issue. I've had times before where I got a "match" on tinder and haven't gotten a response after using my normal textspeak. I don't even think twice about them and brush those off because it's just a numbers game to me. I'm now thinking maybe I should use less of it and see what type of results I get. Has anyone else been confronted about using textspeak and have some advice on do's and don'ts or what are others opinions on it?
This is something I've never really given much thought about prior to last night. I was doing a little online gaming with a girl on tinder and our conversation turned sour quickly. I asked her a few standard lazy questions using some of my normal textspeak words (u, ur, r, etc.) and she replied mostly with one word responses. I was tired and didn't see it going anywhere so I just told her, "I love your one word replies" to which she responded, "I knew you would. I love when people don't put the G on something that ends in inG. I also love it when people are too lazy to spell out 3 letter words like you and are."
I initially didn't know how to respond to this but ended up just telling her that we wouldn't get along and that I compose enough e-mails at work with perfect grammar, punctuation and spelling so when I'm outside of work I feel like taking the easier route (I'm thinking some may see it as just being lazy which it may be). Even though she wasn't really that good looking and I talked to her more out of boredom, she opened my eyes to a bigger issue. I've had times before where I got a "match" on tinder and haven't gotten a response after using my normal textspeak. I don't even think twice about them and brush those off because it's just a numbers game to me. I'm now thinking maybe I should use less of it and see what type of results I get. Has anyone else been confronted about using textspeak and have some advice on do's and don'ts or what are others opinions on it?