Does anyone else text someone else in your own home if they are in another room? Am I just too lazy to go talk to them? Are you like me?
i_stole_ur_taco ( @i_stole_ur_taco@lemmy.ca ) 34•5 months agoIn the olden days we would just scream at the top of our lungs to talk to people in other rooms. I feel like texting captures the lazy spirit without the chaos.
Salvo ( @Salvo@aussie.zone ) English6•5 months agoI’m trying to train the rest of our household to use our voice assistant intercom feature.
One of the kids hates that the intercom interrupts whatever she is doing, as far as she is concerned, she ignores everyone else and uses her noise-cancelling earbuds for a reason.
Before anyone asks, I have already trained them to not say anything personal within earshot of the home assistants.
Xariphon ( @Xariphon@kbin.social ) 18•5 months agoMy wife and I do this, mostly because we’re both often doing stuff in the house, but also want to send each other cat pictures, which don’t demand an immediate response.
PixTupy ( @PixTupy@lemmy.ml ) 2•5 months agoYeah me and my husbands messages are mostly memes and cat pictures.
RovingFox ( @RovingFox@infosec.pub ) 6•5 months agoMy girfriend will text me when I am doing something noisy and she doesn’t want to get out of bed.
Dhrystone ( @Dhrystone@infosec.pub ) 5•5 months agoI do, but it’s because my wife works from home and spends three quarters of the day with the chick cave door closed doing teams meetings. Generally my msgs will be “want brunch/coffee/pastries?” etc.
Thisfox ( @Thisfox@sopuli.xyz ) 5•5 months agoI do, and he reads them days later and apologises.
Now that he is overseas on a business trip he reads them all immediately, but apparently in-house is not an option.
____ ( @____@infosec.pub ) 2•5 months agoThat’s actually kinda adorable.
tias ( @tias@discuss.tchncs.de ) 4•5 months agoI use Google Home Assistant to broadcast messages, e.g. “dinner’s ready”
Vaggumon ( @Vaggumon@lemm.ee ) 3•5 months agoTechnically not texting, but we have a Home Discord group chat.
KoboldCoterie ( @KoboldCoterie@pawb.social ) English3•5 months agoWe do this, too. Really convenient.
alfenstein ( @alfenstein@beehaw.org ) dansk1•5 months agoWe have a Signal group chat, works really well for all kinds of things. Like “Dinner is ready” or “is anybody home?”
What is that?
soli ( @solitaire@infosec.pub ) 3•5 months agoI’ve never done it in my own home, but I had a coworker I’d text with even though his desk was an arms length away from mine. Mostly because it could be hard to tell when either of us was on or about to make a call.
blargerer ( @blargerer@kbin.social ) 2•5 months agoI’ve been in large groups and texted with the person I was sitting next to.
TheAlbatross ( @TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 2•5 months agoThis kinda behavior irritates the hell outta me, but I’ve been told that’s unreasonable for larger homes, more sensible for smaller homes.
I think if it would take you less than sixty seconds to walk to me and talk to me, you should just do it.
RovingFox ( @RovingFox@infosec.pub ) 3•5 months agotakes me less then 20 sec to write to you
TheAlbatross ( @TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 1•5 months agoYeah but that’s so lazy. Have a modicum of respect to speak to me face to face. There’s so much lost in communication when you lose facial expressions and intonation.
Plus, it’s not like it’s hard to just walk over, you’re not losing a great deal of time or energy.
RovingFox ( @RovingFox@infosec.pub ) 2•5 months agoLittle things like this matter. I would work from home doing something that needs my focus and get a sms that the courier is close. I need my focus to finish tasks fast so I will send a message to someone who should be more available.
It is not lazy or lacking respect. Sometimes it is more efficient and confortable for anyone involved.
TheAlbatross ( @TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 1•5 months agoNow that kinda behavior makes more sense to me. Context does matter a lot here. I used to get text messages from an upstairs roommate about wanting to go party with some friends or ordering food on the weekend.
Like, sure, we can do this over text, but it will take you less than thirty seconds to walk to my door. Just do that. The whole conversation will be faster then
____ ( @____@infosec.pub ) 2•5 months agoExcellent word choice, I hear “modicum” so rarely.
T0RB1T ( @T0RB1T@lemmy.ca ) 2•5 months agoDepends on the size of the home I suppose. Tiny bungalow? Yeah, a little weird. Three-story? Not weird at all IMO.
____ ( @____@infosec.pub ) 2•5 months agoAll the damn time. If I’m I. The same room and we’re both awake, I speak, but if she’s asleep or I’m working and can’t escape from a vid meeting…. Signal it is.
For various reasons, my memory isn’t worth a damn, so there’s an added benefit of “yes, I told my wife that important thing” in the history
We live on one floor, with a bedroom, an office, a living room, and a kitchen. It’s definitely not that I’m too lazy to take the ten or twelve steps across the house lol
Devi ( @Devi@kbin.social ) 2•5 months agoI often send people pictures or articles on whatsapp while I’m talking to them, it’s just easier than going over to show them my phone. I definitely text if someone is out of speaking distance if it’s not urgent, stuff like “do you want X for dinner?”, that way they can get to it when it’s convenient.
SagXD ( @sag@lemm.ee ) 1•5 months agoYep but I just call them
____ ( @____@infosec.pub ) 1•5 months agoWhen you could express the same sentiment in a few keystrokes? Nah, I’ll text lol
SagXD ( @sag@lemm.ee ) 1•5 months agoThey don’t view texts because they have like 100 notification and just Ignore it.
ARg94 ( @ARg94@lemmy.packitsolutions.net ) 1•5 months agoYep