I’m starting to think the texting etiquette thing is more about manners and whether a person is someone I want to keep in my life. People who demand my attention but don’t reciprocate are going to do that in any situation... by phone, by text or in person.

The text etiquette is important to me though. I don’t want to bother and annoy people with long demanding texts and I don’t want to be bothered and annoyed by long and demanding texts.

On the other hand, just not responding at all to something simple seems rude to me. Especially when at some point during a 24 hour time period most people are going to check their phone. That’s why I tend to respond even if I don’t want to.

I’ll have to change how I communicate by text. I’m asking myself this: If it’s not something you would do by phone or in person why would you keep letting it go on with texting?