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Yahoo
5 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
17 Cringey Texting Conversations That'll Make Old, Married People Say, "Surely, Dating Can't Be This Bad, Right?"
It's 2025, and dating hasn't gotten any easier for straight women. We've shown you how awful "nice guys" can be, but it's time to take a peek at just how bad some men — in general — can be when it comes to conversing. Here are 19 texting conversations women had with potential partners: start with this one. This guy repeatedly messages this woman, and she never responds. Then, she gets this text from him: guy who thinks it is acceptable to ask for nudes after being respectfully turned down for sex: guy, who seems to have one motive, and it's not a long-term relationship: guy who is a lying, disrespectful a piece of crap, no matter how you look at it: same with this guy, even though he was honest: Related: "That Sentence Sat In My Head For Months": Men Are Revealing The Most Hurtful Things A Woman Can Say To Them, And It's Actually Fascinating guy who still didn't get it after the woman clearly tried everything to be transparent: 7.I have no words for this one: one has also left me a bit speechless: Related: Here Are 50 Pictures That Make Me Grin Uncontrollably No Matter How Many Times I've Seen Them, In Case You Need Them guy who reached out to a backup...(I wonder why his date had anxiety lol): guy who thinks being "poetic" is a good segway into asking disrespectful questions: guy who is clearly immature and into playing games: guy who is just too much: guy who can't be bothered to even send a decent response: same with this guy: guy who might need more experience being an adult before dating: guy who sums up most of the men in this post: finally, this guy who proves we may never have hope in dating men again: Do you have any screenshots of cringey texts from a dating website or from a guy you were dating? Submit them in the photo dropbox below, and we may share yours in a follow-up BuzzFeed post featuring our readers! Also in Internet Finds: Holy Crap, I Can't Stop Laughing At These 28 Painfully Awkward And Embarrassing Conversations Also in Internet Finds: I Need To Call My Doc For A New Inhaler After Cackling So Hard At These 41 Funny Tweets From The Week Also in Internet Finds: People Are Sharing How What Happened In Vegas Did NOT Stay In Vegas, And This Should Be A Lesson To Never Go To A Bachelor/Bachelorette Party There
Phone Arena
a day ago
- Phone Arena
Google Messages might soon give you the option to pressure those using SMS onto RCS
Google continues to double down on Rich Communication Services (RCS) support in Messages, and it's now preparing to roll out a feature that could give users some extra influence over their less tech-savvy contacts. According to findings in the latest open beta build of the Messages app ( Google is working on a new prompt that appears when someone in your chat list isn't using RCS. If the app detects that your contact still hasn't enabled RCS or is using a different messaging app entirely, it may offer you the option to send a reminder SMS encouraging them to make the switch. While the message is described as "friendly," the overall effect could easily feel like social pressure — especially if multiple contacts start sending similar reminders. The prompt will appear alongside the usual notification that messages are being sent as SMS or MMS, and from there, users will be able to send a message nudging their contact toward enabling RCS or installing Google Messages. You may soon have the option to peer pressure your friends into turning on RCS. | Images credit — Android Authority RCS adoption has grown steadily over the last few years, bringing a much-improved texting experience for Android users. It supports features like high-resolution media sharing, typing indicators, emoji reactions, and end-to-end encryption — all of which standard SMS simply can't offer. But for these benefits to work, everyone in the conversation needs to have RCS enabled and be using a compatible app. This new "reminder" feature seems designed to close that loop by enlisting current RCS users to help spread adoption. And it's not the only RCS-related update we've seen recently. As reported earlier, Google is also working on new RCS tags in Google Contacts to help identify whether a person has RCS turned on. In group chats, users will soon be able to rename the group and assign custom icons — a small but useful touch for organization. While we're still waiting to see exactly when this new SMS reminder tool will be rolled out widely, the goal is clear: encourage users to move away from SMS and fully embrace RCS. Whether that approach will nudge holdouts or annoy them remains to be seen. Either way, it looks like Google is betting that a little peer pressure might just be the push needed to bring more people into the modern messaging fold. Secure your connection now at a bargain price! We may earn a commission if you make a purchase This offer is not available in your area.
Daily Mail
01-06-2025
- General
- Daily Mail
Expert reveals the 'desperate' text you shouldn't send if you want a second date
Dating in 2025 can be a hugely stressful and complicated affair as most singletons know all too well. Many people go on enjoyable dates, and then are surprised when the person they shared a pleasant evening with just disappear. This can be especially galling when everything seemed to go well, and a second date seemed to be in the bag. Not knowing what went wrong can mean daters are left questioning their behaviour, ruminating on what happened - and why. According to sex and relationship expert Anita Fletcher, many daters are likely jeopardising their chances of securing a second date by sending 'desperate' text messages that can put off a prospective partner. She said: 'We've all been there, but some texts scream desperation louder than others.' Anita has identified six texting mistakes people make that can make them appear desperate and needy, and come across as red flags to potential partners. 1. 'Hey, you there?' (The desperation check-in) This seemingly innocent message is a major red flag, according to Anita. She explained that sending it multiple times throughout the day shows you're constantly checking if they're available – and that you have nothing better to do. 'This text reveals anxiety about being ignored,' she said. 'It puts pressure on the other person to respond immediately, which feels suffocating in early dating.' Better alternative: Wait until you have something specific to say. Try: 'Just saw that new coffee place you mentioned! Have you tried their cold brew?' 2. The triple text trap Message 1: 'Hey! How's your day?' Message 2: 'Hello???' Message 3: 'Guess you're busy…' Nothing says needy like bombarding someone with multiple messages when they don't respond fast enough. This behaviour shows you can't handle even brief periods without validation. 'Triple texting demonstrates poor emotional regulation,' said Anita 'It suggests you'll be high-maintenance in a relationship.' Better alternative: Send one thoughtful message and give them time to respond. If they don't reply within 24 hours, move on gracefully. 3. 'Why aren't you responding?' Asking people why they aren't instantly replying to messages 'reveals deep insecurity and an inability to respect boundaries', according to Anita This confrontational text is relationship kryptonite. Demanding explanations for response times shows controlling behaviour before you've even met in person. Fletcher notes: 'This message reveals deep insecurity and an inability to respect boundaries. It's manipulative and will make anyone run for the hills.' Better alternative: Simply don't send it. People have lives outside their phones. If someone consistently ignores you, take the hint. 4. The Overshare Avalanche 'I had such a terrible day at work and my boss yelled at me and then I got a parking ticket and my mum called about Thanksgiving drama and I'm so stressed I can barely function…' Dumping your emotional baggage via text before establishing a real connection is overwhelming and inappropriate. 'Early dating should be fun and light,' Fletcher advises. 'Save the heavy stuff for when you've built trust and rapport.' Better alternative: Keep early texts upbeat. Try: 'Work was intense today! Looking forward to unwinding. How was your day?' 5. 'I Miss You' (After one date) Texting someone to say 'I miss you' after just one date comes across as needy and suggests unhealthy attachment patterns Declaring intense feelings too soon is a classic needy move. Telling someone you miss them after minimal interaction suggests unhealthy attachment patterns. 'This text implies you're already emotionally dependent on someone you barely know,' Fletcher warns. 'It's too much, too fast.' Better alternative: Express enjoyment without intensity: 'Had a great time last night! Would love to do it again soon.' 6. The Validation Seeker Fishing for compliments or reassurance through text screams insecurity. These messages put the other person in an awkward position of having to boost your ego. Fletcher explains: 'Confidence is attractive. Constantly seeking validation suggests you don't believe in your own worth.' Better alternative: Build confidence through actions, not texts. Focus on sharing interesting thoughts or planning fun activities instead. Discussing why people send needy texts after just meeting someone, sex and relationship expert Anita Fletcher said: 'Most people send needy texts because they're operating from a place of fear – fear of abandonment, fear of rejection, or fear of not being good enough. 'When someone doesn't respond immediately, anxious attachers spiral into worst-case scenarios. They think silence means disinterest, when really the other person might just be in a meeting.' According to Anita, the irony is that in being needy, the texter 'creates exactly what we're trying to avoid – rejection'. She continued: 'When we bombard someone with desperate messages, we're essentially saying "I don't trust you to like me unless I constantly remind you I exist". That's exhausting for the recipient. 'My advice? Put down the phone and work on yourself. The best relationships happen when two complete people choose to share their lives, not when one person desperately clings to another for validation. Remember, the right person won't need constant texts to remember you exist – and you won't need constant reassurance that they care.'
CNET
30-05-2025
- General
- CNET
Here's How to Turn Off Some Annoying iPhone Texting Features, Including Autocorrect
Texting is one of the easiest ways to stay in touch with friends and family, and if you can't find the right words to use in a text, you can use emoji instead. But some texting features on iPhone can be downright annoying and cause all kinds of headaches when trying to send a quick message. Some of the biggest texting annoyances include autocorrect and predictive texting. Autocorrect can cut down on the number of typos when you're typing, and predictive texting can make it easy to write a full message in a few quick taps. But when I use these features, more often than not they are correcting words I don't mean to be corrected or suggesting words I don't want to use. And others are equally annoyed by autocorrect and predictive text. Thankfully, you can easily turn these features off in a few quick steps. Here's how to making texting easier by turning off some of your iPhones messaging features. Turn inline predictive text off Inline predictive text was introduced in iOS 17 and is similar to predictive text, but it places the suggested text in the texting field in light gray. Apple wrote online that inline predictive text is meant to predict what you're going to write as you type, and if you hit space the predicted text would be added to your text. The feature doesn't always accurately predict what you were typing, so if you hit space, you might add the wrong text to your message. The gray text might also be distracting if you're trying to read what you're writing in real time. If you don't like inline predictive text, here's how to turn the feature off. 1. Open Settings. 2. Tap General. 3. Tap Keyboard. 4. Tap the switch next to Show Predictions Inline. Now, when you type a message, you won't run the risk of adding a word you don't intend to add. You'll still see predictive text, the suggested words and emoji, over your keyboard. Turn all predictive text off If you find all predictive text annoying, you can easily turn that off, too. Here's how: 1. Open Settings. 2. Tap General. 3. Tap Keyboard. 4. Tap the switch next to Predictive Text. Apple/Screenshot by CNET When you type a message now, you won't see a box over your keyboard with suggested words or emojis. Turning predictive text off also disables inline predictive text, so you won't see any suggestions whatsoever. You can type without interruption. Turn autocorrect off When Apple announced iOS 17, the company touted an improved autocorrect function. But some people might still be irritated by the feature and adjust autocorrected words. If you're sick of autocorrect, here's how to turn it off. 1. Open Settings. 2. Tap General. 3. Tap Keyboard. 4. Tap the switch next to Auto-Correction. Now when you type a message, your iPhone won't change words as you type them -- including swear words. However, you might see more spelling errors in your messages. If those errors pile up and you want autocorrect enabled again, just follow the above steps one more time. For more iOS news, here's all the features included in iOS 18.5 and iOS 18.4. You can also check out our iOS 18 cheat sheet and what we hope to see in iOS 19.
The Guardian
26-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
Sex up the sexting! Why text messages are the hot new boom area in TV shows
In the final episode of Ted Lasso's second season, Ted sends a text to his ex-wife that reads simply: 'Knock, knock.' Nothing too unusual about that you might think, but what is strange is that it appears to be the very first message he's ever sent the mother of his son. Stranger still, she has never previously texted him either. The blank white space above and below their messages reveals that the characters share zero messaging history. It's a problem that used to plague TV. Why is the first message Emily in Paris has ever received from her boyfriend: 'Hey, how is Paris?' When Rebecca accidentally sends a text to her crush instead of her best friend in Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, why is their history blank when we saw him text her about a housewarming party a few episodes earlier? In 2021, Wired journalist Zak Jason named a whole litany of shows in which characters don't have text histories – New Girl, Insecure, The Undoing – and argued that it was, 'inexcusable, and unnerving to witness'. It appears that studios and streamers alike were listening. Because nowadays, television writers put a huge amount of thought into getting a character's text history right – even if it is only going to appear on screen for a matter of seconds. In the currently airing dark comedy Your Friends & Neighbours, everyone texts regularly. When Jon Hamm's character Coop wants to meet up with his lover, we see a long history of past booty calls and even the bottom of a sexy snap. When his son texts his crush, it's apparent that she previously responded to something with the letter 'k'. Meanwhile, recently released thriller series The Stolen Girl features emoji-filled logs between spouses and colleagues: 'Grabbing lunch. Want anything?', 'I'm WFH today btw.' And Ted Lasso course-corrected in season three, showing viewers Ted's historic interactions with swathes of people, including a message to his upstairs neighbour: 'I swear to you, I'm not playing music.' 'It drives all of us crazy when there aren't text histories – it's something we've fought for years,' says Dave Henri, a managing partner of California-based graphic design firm Modern Motion, which he co-founded in 2009. The company developed Magic Phone, a piece of software that can be installed on prop devices on set. The app is paired with a Bluetooth keyboard that allows crew to trigger notifications, or the bubbles that appear when someone is typing, so an actor can tap out any old gibberish and still prompt the right message to appear on screen in real time. Magic Phone also enables productions to add text message histories with plausible time-stamps, and thanks to the realism of the software, it has been used by numerous Apple TV+ productions including The Morning Show, Shrinking and Ted Lasso. 'I think the studios and creatives have embraced the fact that we are so used to seeing these devices that, if it doesn't look right, the audience bumps against that,' says Modern Motion co-founder Chris Cundey. Or as Henri puts it: 'A lot of thought goes into it now because people are aware that fans are taking screen grabs, posting them on Reddit and dissecting everything.' Modern Motion employee Rob Rogers worked on Ted's elaborate text history in season three; he says the graphics went through 25 to 30 iterations before they got it right. 'We met with the writers, directors and all the showrunners to figure out what Ted would have said to his mum, or what he would've said to the doctor three months ago,' Rogers says. Some graphics were even altered after the show premiered, to improve them for people streaming later on. 'If they realised a message couldn't have been sent at 10:53am for whatever reason, they wanted to fix it to make it perfect.' A surprising amount of work goes into something that is on screen for just a brief moment. 'On just run-of-the-mill text messages, we would have 13 or 14 iterations. That comes down to thinking about what a character is named in a person's phone, what their contact image is, or whether they know each other well enough to have an image,' says Rogers. In one throwaway gag for eagle-eyed viewers, we see that Ted's mum has previously texted him to say that her internet is down, before attaching a picture of an unplugged router. 'We had like three or four different photos that they provided of that router – that's how deep we go.' While it's fun to add Easter eggs like this, past texts can't be too distracting because then audiences will miss the 'hero text' that is being sent or received as part of the plot. Script editor Charlie Niel battled with this on The Stolen Girl. While texts that were important for the storyline were written into the script by the head writers, he filled in the message histories, which were then signed off by the writers and producers. 'The crucial, crucial thing is not pulling focus,' he says. Past texts can't be 'outlandish, attention-grabbing or long' because viewers' eyes will drift up. 'On the other hand, it's a tricky balance because I also find it distracting if the messages are too generic; if they're how no one ever speaks.' Niel looked to his own real-life texts for inspiration. 'I would think, 'What do I text my colleagues about?' And it's stuff like, 'I'm going out for coffee, do you want one?'' Sometimes he would throw in a typo to make things realistic. But he also had to be careful not to include anything that would inadvertently affect the story or change the way we see the characters. Continuity was king – if a character gets a text on one day, it needs to be visible in their history the next day – sometimes with a few random other messages in between. In the end, Niel wrote between 10 and 20 historic texts for each interaction, for only one or two of them to ultimately end up on screen. At one point in The Stolen Girl, a character scrolls through the DMs sent to a media outlet's social media account and Niel had to 'adopt the voice of an internet troll' to write these messages. He also had to come up with the senders' names. Because every name that appears on screen has to be signed off by the legal department – so that, for example, a journalist named Amelia Tait couldn't sue if a journalist named Amelia Tait were featured – Niel christened some of the trolls after fellow crew members. In the end, text message histories won't make or break a show, but they are often appreciated by audiences. 'Because TV viewers are so sophisticated now, they'll notice if one little text that we say happened on 26 April contradicts something else in the script,' Niel says. Actors, too, often enjoy playing around on their phoney devices. 'Making it easy for the actors, and seeing their reaction to it, is really one of the best things,' Henri says. Apparently Harrison Ford was a fan of Magic Phone on the Shrinking set. And Cundey notes that even actors who 'hunt and peck with just two fingers' while typing can look like master hackers thanks to the software. Nowadays, if characters' text histories are missing, viewers can be a little more confident that it just might be on purpose. 'When a typing bubble appears and goes away and appears and goes away and nothing comes, that's a modern metaphor for something unresolved,' Cundey notes – texts can communicate so much with so little. And the crew behind these messages are happy that their work is starting to get noticed. 'We are an often misunderstood or passed over vocation of the industry,' says Rogers. 'But we're also ever-growing.' Or to put it another way: ppl don't say omg atm, but iykyk.
