SMS MANNERS

Got this last week, from Mei a.k.a. Lau Ren Chia.

-----Original Message-----
From: Mei
Sent: Monday, July 24, 2006 4:21 PM
To: Gina
Subject: Don't you just hate people with no SMS manners.....
Hello hello there!

Well......just wondering whether you have friends with no SMS manners at all................sent out an SMS last week welcoming a friend who is back in KL for a holiday from Dubai....so the message goes...

Msg : "Hi! Welcome back....hope you're enjoying your holiday so far....Looking fwd to seeing you guys next week at Yit's....."
Reply : See you 29th. (Fullstop)

........now in your expert opinion, do you not think the message :
1. Anti climactic
2. Lacking in warmth
3. Impersonal
4. Rude
5. etc etc

Sigh.!@#$% (Why did I bother?!!!!!)
Mei

Speaking of SMS etiquette, there are people who don’t even bother to reply sms at all. I told Mei that, she hasn’t encounter friends who never or just a casual OK when you text him/her a long winded paragraph seeking for his/her opinion – in which you would need an answer more than just OK.

People who never reply sms piss me off. Very rarely, I belong to the category of assholes –and only when it comes to dealing with Lai Ma’s– I never reply to any of her obnoxious KNLBCCB SMSes or recently, some guy who hooked up with me from the internet match making service, who never bother to remember whatever I told him – and he kept on bombarding me the same question since day 1 for umpteenth times – Are you single?

SMS is a powerful tool. Youngsters nowadays could be seen walking with their fingers literally typing on their mobile phones while talking to their other friends. When I say youngsters – I am one of them *ahem*

I am totally against using SMS to break up or maybe to declare a divorce like some published stories in the newspapers not long ago – which is totally inconsiderate, and the people who did this surely have no balls.

I don’t like forwarded/ junk sms either. I don’t understand why people would bother to send sms of junk when you could do it via e-mail for free. Depending on my mood and the level of humour of the junk, I would also reply accordingly. (Being pat chi sor wai and totally mou liu!)

Other than playing the role of a simple form of communication, SMS can also be a tool to show your annoyance. For example, when Lai Ma came to my house to suffocate me with her “success stories” – I would text my friends incessantly while pretending to listen to her. She would get annoyed and cut her stories short. SMS saves the day!

What goes around, comes around. At times (very rarely), I get that from some friends also – geez – are they annoyed by MY stories? Anyway, it is simply rude to SMS in front of friends when you are supposed to take part in the conversation over coffee.

I even SMS my boss to leave important messages whenever he is overseas, rather than spending money calling him (and him spending money to receive a phone call!).

SMS has played quite a pivotal role today....

Sorry, I am not very good in writing posts with facts. *lol* So I will stop here.