How many messages do you send?

[Supersuperleeds]

If you include work emails then roughly 3-4 million a day.


I'm a spammer

 

[slowmotion]

Apart from the routine tosh on here, I don't send many personal messages. In the last eight weeks my score is...

Texts: 0
Emails: 7

I absolutely detest typing on a phone.

 

[mustang1]

Idk. But I know I receive a bucket load of emails and o do not read most of them. I also do not bother sorting out my emails anymore. I have most app notifications turned off, I have the phone on silent mode most of the day, and quite frequently in airplane mode.

In fact, quite often I just use it like an iPod (an iPhone without the phone bit).

 

[Archie_tect]

You're like a beacon to us!

At least no-one's set fire to him yet...

 

[PaulSB]

As many as are necessary to keep up with family, friends, cycling buddies, cycling club and general household admin.

Communication is so much simpler these days.

I'm not sure posts on CC count as messages?

 

[Ming the Merciless]

none of that new fangled rubbish for me. Carrier pigeon or dispatch rider on horseback for me. It does make asking Mrs D what is for tea a bit long winded though.

Doesn‘t she just reply “pigeon for tea“, with smoke signals from the oven?

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Not enough. We need to dig deeper than that. We need to define exactly what constitutes a "message"

For example, let's analyze this whatsapp conversation:

Husband (H): "yo, what's up?"
Wife (W): "nothing, just working"
W: "being bored"
W: "don't have much work on at the moment"
H: "OK, wanna come downstairs for a coffee?"
W: "Yes"
H: "OK, I'll put a pot up"
H: "Will shout when it's ready"

Are we counting this conversation as 8 messages?

Because that's how we, young people, message.

My parents' messages, instead, are basically digital letters, with separate paragraphs, various points/topics covered, and a series of questions...all in 1 message. That's how old people message.

Your messages seem quite verbose. My responses to texts tend to be

”yes”
”ok”
”no”

Mostly as I use a dumb phone when out and about and anything longer is a pain to type out.

I also wouldn’t take your experience as representative of what young or old people do. You’ll find a range across all age groups.

 

[Accy cyclist]

It varies from day to day. Some days i could send 30 text messages, the next (like today) about 3 or 4. Emails are few and far between. Probably about 3 or 4 a week. Forum messages, including Facebook, probably about 30 a day. As for messages as in actual hand penned letters, the last one i wrote by hand, then posted in a post box must've been around 20 years ago. Though if filled in forms for my PIP etc count i send/return around 4 or 5 a year the last being in June this year.

 

[Craig the cyclist]

Maybe having an affair or planning to murder someone increases the traffic.

It certainly does.

 

[GeekDadZoid]

Instant messaging probably 50-100 a day, if not more.

Mostly use telegram, WhatsApp and signal these days.

 

[Pale Rider]

Instant messaging probably 50-100 a day, if not more.

Mostly use telegram, WhatsApp and signal these days.

That's going some, six or so an hour, or one every 10 minutes.

How do you find the time?

 

[Drago]

Anyone seen invasion of the bodysnatchers?

Well, now walk up any moderately busy atreet and look at the zombies. Like Leonard Nimoy, Ive held out, but how long before they're on to me?

 

[Fnaar]

Probs about 50 a week, to my offspring and various friends

 

[Jody]

It's not difficult to rack up message counts given how fast people can type. Yesterday a friend asked me about a bike he was interested in and that ended up being 50 odd messages.

The game changer were services like WhatsApp using the internet to message rather than charging per message or having a limited number of inclusive messages. To me it changed from messaging people to more of a IM chat facility.

 

[BoldonLad]

Idk. But I know I receive a bucket load of emails and o do not read most of them. I also do not bother sorting out my emails anymore. I have most app notifications turned off, I have the phone on silent mode most of the day, and quite frequently in airplane mode.

In fact, quite often I just use it like an iPod (an iPhone without the phone bit).

Are you, by chance, my Brother-in-law?