Our generation has mastered the texting game. Aside from face to face interaction, texting is our main form of communication. Texts can tell a lot about us, but they can especially show us how we interact with the people in our lives. Here are ten textversations we all have in our phones and what they mean:
1. Infinite
Infinite texts can be categorized by the way you communicate with your squad. These texts are usually on-going throughout the day. They are usually 10 person group messages, in which everyone takes turns sending screenshots, embarrassing pictures, or funny memes. When you ask a particular person in the group a question, someone else usually responds. Everyone just knows what’s up.
2. Chunks
These texts usually come from your long-distance best friends about twice a week. They are usually long and come in clusters since you don’t talk every day to make plans or hang out. These texts are usually recaps of what has happened in the last few days or weeks. You usually take turns sending each other 17 text messages at a time, talking about everything and anything you remember since the last time you talked.
3. Wild Card
These texts are from that one guy that sends you the most outrageous text messages. They’re not necessarily inappropriate all the time, but you never know the intentions of the sender. He will text you in the A.M. or in the middle of the day. He will not bother you for weeks, and suddenly send you a smiley face for no rhyme or reason. His text messages are so random and wildly confusing, but they are so entertaining that you spare him your time to converse with him every now and then. When the conversation gets going, it’s fun to role play his texts with your friends and make facials to match the emojis he’s sends.4. Emoji
Sometimes, you just have those friends you send emojis to and not much of anything else.
5. Sketch
These texts are from that guy you met at that party that one time, but he still seems to text you every day. You don’t really know this guy, so you don’t want to be rude if he may turn out to be a decent person. Then again, you don’t want to be too nice, in case he turns out to be a nutcase that will stalk you for the rest of your life. You’ll have some decent conversations with him, but they’ll never actually lead to anything.6. Don’t F*ck It Up
These texts are the ones you send to boys you’re secretly in love with. You will take ten minutes to formulate the perfect text message, so it sounds casual but friendly, even though sometimes all you want to respond when he texts you to hang out is “YES YES YES!” You make your friends edit the shit out of your texts. Sometimes, you make them press ‘send’ for you, because you’re too scared to do it yourself. You will go as far as writing out drafts in your Notes sections, so he won’t see that you’re typing. When you get a text from this person, you heart lights up and the song “Walking On A Dream” starts playing in the background.
7. Clueless
This guy just doesn’t understand that you’re not interested, and you never will be.
8. Stage Two
These texts are from the girl or guy you’re dating. You send each other cute puppy or sloth pictures, because you are both weirdly obsessed with baby animals. You have endless inside jokes, and you don’t mind triple or quadruple texting each other. With this person, you feel comfortable enough to rave on and on about the new pickle brand you’ve been trying out. You feel like you have the best conversations. Since talking to this person is so fun, it’s hard to go even a day without texting.
9. Unknown
These texts are either unknown because you don’t know the person contacting you or because it’s from your ex who you've deleted off your phone. When you see one of these texts light up on your screen and realize it’s your ex’s number, you feel like chucking your $700 iPhone out the nearest window. They’ll usually come out of the blue, when you’ve finally erased him or her out of the recesses of your memory. You might end up ignoring the message all together or reading it over and over again, wondering what it means, even though it may be as simple as "yo."
10. Authority
These text messages are solely for business. They're maybe from your boss or your club president. Regardless, you make yourself sound way more professional than you actually are. And sometimes, when you're hammered at 12:47 AM, you might overplay your sobriety.
