Texting & Social Media Stories
Wrong sends, autocorrect disasters, and posts you immediately regretted. Screenshots live forever — unfortunately.
Texting & Social Media
My thumbs hover above the keyboard like a pair of nervous birds on a wire, as I contemplate the perfect reply to Sarah's 'what's for dinner?' The fluorescent glow of my screen seems to amplify every tiny tremble within me, making it hard to type out something marginally acceptable – anything beyond a perfunctory 'pizza' that is. My fingers itch to compose a witty retort, a witty, 140-character essay that would seal our online rapport forever.
Texting & Social Media
Glancing down at my palms, I noticed that last night's pizza sauce stains were now expertly paired with my morning coffee rings, like two old friends embracing on my hands. This is why I always swipe right on "no makeup selfies" for solo nights at home.
Texting & Social Media
It was as I sat on the bus that I noticed my thumbs hovered involuntarily above the cracked screen of my mother's old flip phone. We'd had the conversation - or at least a heated monologue - about the futility of paying full price for a smartphone and, by extension, all its attendant costs.
Texting & Social Media
I've been 'unfriending' my way through life, deleting each social media account a new failed relationship's equivalent of ripping a Band-Aid off, except my hands aren't shaking because I have a history of poor coping mechanisms.
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Texting & Social Media
Fumbling for my phone in class, I almost spilled coffee on notes scribbled in red pen. Amidst the chaos of algebra, my thumbs hovered over screen, trying not to look at my crush's DM with three words: "Hey, I'm done."
Texting & Social Media
My thumbs have permanently memorized the shape of my keyboard from years of late-night Instagram binges and hasty apologies sent to my ex. I'm pretty sure 'I'm sry' has become an autotext at this point.
Texting & Social Media
The autocorrect on my phone insists on spelling 'taco' as 'taxo', but my aunt still hasn't returned my call from three hours ago after I accidentally sent that very message instead of a casual hello. I have no idea how I managed to accidentally send a 10 AM 'good tacos taxo today?' to all 57 people in my contacts list.
Texting & Social Media
Sometimes it's the typos that feel like a betrayal. Just now, I sent my crush a sloppy 'w8n for u'.