Texting Troubles
I recently read an agony aunt letter where the letter writer was complaining that when people text her, they never wish her good morning. Now, maybe the letter writer was right, and these people were just rude. Maybe the columnist was right, and these people were just trying not to waste time with unnecessary pleasantries.
But I think that there’s an alternate explanation, and that’s that when texting was just beginning to be a thing, no one had a smartphone. We all had phones like the one shown here, with an incredibly inefficient system involving clicking buttons multiple times to cycle through letters. It took forever to get anything written. So of course the custom developed that when you’re texting, you don’t waste 45 minutes typing out “Good morning.”