This Question goes out to all texting folk: anyone who responds to emails, text messages, IM's, or otherwise typed forms of quick communication. (So, I guess you die-hard Morse Code users count as well.)

Do you find that you have to choose your words extremely carefully, to the point of proofing 2-3-4 times before sending?

Or:

Have you noticed an increasing need to proof what you say via these forms of communication in the past 2-3 years?


This is a Post in continuation to another post elsewhere regarding my difficulties with communicating via typed messages. There has recently been an increase in mistranslated messages, to the point of it snowballing into an out of hand issue, complete with emotional arguement at one point. My short term solution was to cut text messages & instant messages to bare-minimum yes or no responses, along with the provided simple question. In general, I find making any attempt to communicate via typed message increasingly tedious, partially since the "instant" part doesn't seem to occur any more.Lately I have needed to up my wordsmithing to include legalspeak in my responses, complete with "wherefore", "that which", and a few "henceforths".

I love IM's, because they are so instant. What's the point in texting / IM-ing if I need to spend more time carefully wording responses than it would for a verbal chat via phone or in person?
I call to fellow text-ers to ask "WHAT GIVES?"

Is it really that I need to put more time into my instant/text messages, or is it more that the recipient should respect the "instant" nature of such messages a little more?

Thanks in advance. Truly frustrating.