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So heres my latest pet peeve...... the newest PSA ad by the "AD" council to combat aggressive texting......
The biggest problem in my view is the lack of communication, not from the aggressive texter but the lack of the response from the reciepient . The assumption being that "if I ignore him/her that s/he will stop texting eventually." That assumption is dead wrong. There are many motivations behind not responding so I'll deal with em one at a time like I do in most of my blogs.
1. (the biggest stated reason) I don't want to hurt his/her feelings. ------ I call bull on that, not only does not responding hurt their feelings, it adds confusion of intent, inherently making it worse.
2. S/He's annoying me. ----- anyone worthy of getting your number is worthy of a response, positive OR negative. If they annoy you, tell them as much, the lack of a response is a basic lack of honesty. How can you expect honesty from others when you dont display it yourself?
3. S/He's not whom I thought s/he was when i gave him/her my number. ------ another one i call bull on, if you didnt think someone was the way they are, you didnt pay attention to the person, in words and behavior, for whatever reason. Since that is on you, its your responsibility to tell them to piss off.
4. I liked him/her at first, but someone else came along i like more and #1^. ------- again bull, but in this case its not that you didnt want to hurt his/her feelings, its more you dont want to be called a slut/whore whatever. This one you just have to stand up, take the arrow of the namecall, because, again, your actions initiated that type of response.
5. I dont have time to respond. ----- If you dont have time to respond to someone whom has your cellphone number, that person never should have gotten your number in the first place. Another case where you need to tell someone to shut up , piss off, or whatever.
So the big thing here is the lack of courage or lack of willingness to respond negatively to those annoying you with aggressive texting. the bottom line is YOU NEED TO RESPOND, whether that response is positive or negative, and SOOOOOO many people are not willing to take the few seconds to do that. Get courage, you'll do ppl a favor by not leaving them hanging, and yourself a favor but cutting off aggressive texting before it starts!
