Too lazy to switch apps too
(midwest.social)
pelespirit
People TwitterI remember back when I had my moto razor flip phone and I could t9 type with it hidden in my pocket still, I felt so cool and tech savvy. Now people emoji react to my text messages and I can feel my hair turning grey in real time. I'll never give up my typo fixing *s or my ascii :)
Sending a Correction is literally so much easier!
To edit message you probably have to long press on it, select Edit, then select the part of text to edit (which is famously easy on mobile /s) then erase and rewrite. There's no point putting this much effort into a chat message! There's a reason people don't capitalise or use punctuation in those.
Sorry I'm with the millennial on this one (being a millennial and a tech savvy person myself).
I'm a millennial and I strongly prefer editing. It's much easier on the recipient not to have to cross-reference your correction with your message, and it usually doesn't result in a separate notification ping.
IT IS!!!! ITS LIKE LYING
it's like gaslighting people that you were correct in the first place.
It's 2026*
You can edit a text? Hmmm.
I'm sure it's illegal in several jurisdictions.
But clearly you start with the asterisk
I've always been asterisk at the end, but mostly because it's easier for me to type that way.
Asterisk starts a bullet list in a lot of richtext fields that use markdown
*If you don't put space
What kind of heathen doesn't?
No, you edit the message so that the typo has a * after it, since asterisks indicate a footnote. Then you post the corrective message with the asterisk at the beginning.
Just edit the original message with [sic]
This is the way.
I don't bother to correct it unless the person on the other side is mentally deficient or a grammar nazi.
I do that as a Gen Z
.........you can edit sent messages??
In iMessage, yes
Editing is a power not all people should be trusted with.
You all know at least one person (or are the person) who would text a yes/no like "Did you see Dave today?" and then when you write "yeah" edit their message to "Can I borrow your car?" or something you wouldn't have said yes to.
but it's edited no one really care that
But wouldn’t it say Edited underneath?
Depends on the app. Some let you see all versions, I think.
I’m in this ~~photo~~ screenshot and I don’t like it.
Edit: a word
/s
Don't you mean "*screenshot"
A screenshot is just a photo of your screen
*screenshat
Hrm... so you went with an edit after all... 🤔😂
This is the way.
Ok Dave
fix my typos with *an.
Depends whether you call it “a splat” or “an asterisk”
You tryna fight!?
As a millennial I’ve never heard it called a splat, also, get off my lawn ye damn kids
It’s before our time, early 1970s.
https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/334947/when-and-where-did-become-splat
“A star” would also be reasonable but I wanted to use the more obscure option.
a splat
WTF did you just say to me?
I'm GenZ but the millennial has a point
I am millennial, and I prefer to edit. That said, I feel like people are less likely to notice the edit than they are an additional message.
Also creates the occasional “I could swear that said something different when I first read it…”
I’ve taken to editing my messages to strike through removals and [edit: italicize] additions/corrections, if I think it could cause confusion.
....wait what?
I'm pretty tech savvy and had no idea I could edit a text...
Yes, am millennial... Lol
SMS messages, you can't (without two same apps with extensions).
RCS messages, you can.
These days, SMS and RCS messaging just come under the banner of "text messaging". It's pretty handy to be fair, blows MMS out of the water anyway.
Google Messages doesn't seem to have an edit button despite specifically using "RCS message" as the placeholder text.
There's apparently a 15 minute window to edit
How many people even remember MMS these days
I do! I also remember using WAP to read the news. Well, my first venture on the internet was December 24 1994, so I am old...
Curious, why do you remember day 1 for you?
I don't know mine. I do remember sitting in my kitchen at the family computer listening to the modem connect via an AOL disc though. Sometime in the late 90s if I had to guess.
Apparently in 1998 half of all cds produced worldwide had an AOL logo on them. Wild.
Because my 15 year older brother got it for Christmas for the family that year. We open gifts on the 24th, which if why I remember it.
These days, WAP is something completely different.
Yeah, Wireless Access Point obviously. Duh
I'm old, so old that I have no idea what you're talking about. Care to indulge an old man?
It's a popular song by Cardi B. WAP stands for Wet Ass Pussy
That's right up my alley 🤓
A wireless access point? People still use them all the time… (also old here)
Holy. Fuck. I didn't think of that 🤣
nah, Wireless Application Protocol - a way of serving web pages that was very similar to the HyperCard technology of the time.
Ah, the memories of checking football scores on a Nokia 3330 in school playgrounds...
Oh yeah, that. I didn’t have a mobile then so almost completely missed that even existing, but now it does sound familiar having been dredged up from the depths of my memory.
I know one person still using MMS, because they refuse to get a Internet capable cellphone.
There is one phone in our family that can send them SMS, everyone else gets error messages. How is that even possible? I thought SMS are standardized.
MMS is no longer universally supported among carriers
Fine by me, but why can't I send them SMS?
Missed that. Which side gets the error? The sender? Must be carrier weirdness.
Alternatively, they opted in for RCS somewhere somehow but they don't have an online RCS client so RCS capable senders get errors unless you explicitly set the app to send SMS only to this person
And nothing of value was lost.
This post is a millennial trap, so I'd think most people here?
What are some apps that support RCS? I'd prefer to keep Google, Apple, etc off my device.
The only options are Samsung, Google, and Apples messaging apps. Every carrier uses Google implementation of it and they have not created an open api for other apps to use it.
Even if a third party app supported it, it'd still be completely reliant on Googles RCS services.
Not a lot because you need something that supports what your carrier use and there's no userspace API exposed for it
Depends on the message. You can't really edit an SMS.
I thought you could on Apple
Blue bubbles aren't sms
It's probably not actually an SMS if it's apple to apple messaging, you're probably using imessage.
Editing a SMS only works between two "smart"phones. Me, I see a second message starting with EDIT, and yes, I can see the previous shit you sent me forever.
I edit it now. I'm sorry but I don't miss the days of 4 pings because I fucked up 4 times. Just edit it and dont crowd the chat.
Got a guy in my group chat (all millennials) who refuses to edit and also follows up with cursing at sleep
Slope
Dammit, swept
Mutha frucking swipe!
Literally half his messages are like that
Still worth it to use swept typing though
Swope
I’m also a millennial and I was taught how to use a computer so of course I edit my messages.
We must be on different sides of the generational line. Editting texts is something that wasnt available to me until i was old enough to not notice it was possible. Im lucky my T9 "spelling" habits have diminished, but i dont know if my correcting text via * ever will
Feel blessed that you never had to deal with drama from someone kicking off that a message no longer says what it used to.
Is it bad I have a tendency to edit, but if the typo is particularly hilarious, I'll use an asterisk correction?
Edit: obligatory edit
“too lazy to swap apps”? huh?
The text messaging software that came with my android phone doesn't allow text editing.
Did you edit this comment in your thread about the immorality of editing messages?
Si
Hehe, thus is begins millennials…
