12 Times When Texting is a Terrible Idea

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Published 13 Mar 2015

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Disclosure
We love texting. Texting is fabulous. Texting means we can communicate with people while interacting with them even less than we would have ever thought possible. It’s awesome. But even we all have to admit that there are times when texting just doesn’t cut it. And, of course, there are times when super awkward autocorrect fails and is, well, super awkward. Here are 12 times you should think twice before texting instead of calling or, you know, talking to someone face-to-face:

When You Need to Express Your Feelings

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Emojis stickers, even animated ones, don’t quite have the emotional oomph of the spoken word. Trust me on this one.

When You Want to Break Up

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Unless, you know, it’s a super casual long-distance online relationship. Then, whatever!

When a Loved One or Anyone Dies

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I feel like this should be self-explanatory, but apparently it’s not.

When You’re Under the Influence

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Warning! This is not what you look like when you drunk-text your ex. This is what you look like:

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When You’re Firing Someone

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Although firing someone via Tweet is fine, right?

When It’s Your Boss

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Autocorrect is never your friend, but it’s especially vindictive when you’re texting the person responsible for your paycheck.

When They’re Not Texting Back

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Doesn’t matter who you’re texting. If your text-ratio is greater than 5:1, you need to stop. Right now.

When It’s An Emergency

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Hopefully an all-caps text isn’t the first thing you think of when you’re in a life-threatening, emergency situation. Hopefully.

When You Have a Lot To Say

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Your three-part text is too long. Nobody’s going to read that.

When You’re Discussing Something Illegal

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Or when you send an auto correct message to your mom, oppps ahhh

When It’s Just Not Working

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Yeaaaaah, sometimes texting is a terrible form of communication. Maybe just pick up the phone?