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December 22, 2003
intexticated: drunken texting
Smart Mobs blogged an article about drunken texting:
Drunken texts have replaced snogging colleagues at work parties as the biggest embarrassment of the festive season. The problem of texting under the influence is so common it has been given a name ''intexicated''. Around 60 million texts are sent every day in December. And research by phone giant Virgin Mobile said 15 million of them are sent by people who have had one too many. Virgin said that two-thirds of women who text while drunk send messages to former lovers and some text the wrong person. A public relations officer in London sent a sexually explicit message to dad instead of boyfriend Dan after hitting the wrong button.
What is interesting about this (brief) article is that it states that drunken texting is exceptionally common, but only references behavior by drunken women. Are drunken women the only ones texting the wrong people?
Posted by zephoria at 02:05 PM in General | Permalink
Comments
There's a drinking SMS game that I'm NOT going to be playing called text roulette where you concoct a devillish SMS together and flip blindly through the people in your address book, sending the message at random.
Of course it's NOT anonymous.
Yikes.
Personally I've only gotten text-in-error from women and from complete strangers who've miskeyed a phone number. I can't find the actual study the (brief) article references - well, not in a quick search anyway - perhaps it explains why they used a women-only sample?
Posted by: Jill at Dec 22, 2003 2:41:04 PM
I get myself into all sorts of trouble without the added help of alcohol. I'm always sending messages to the wrong person ... and there was also the occasion when my best friend declared undying love to me instead of to her boyfriend.
Posted by: Sian at Dec 22, 2003 5:03:41 PM
How the heck do they know that
a.) that the person is intoxicated
and
b.) that the person thier texting is thier ex.
They are watching everyhting way too close. scary.
Posted by: web at Dec 22, 2003 5:31:43 PM
Danah, thanks for this. Very interesting. I've actually only experienced MEN texting to me drunk for the most part. Go figure.
Posted by: Halley at Dec 22, 2003 8:06:57 PM
I try to avoid intexticating, but I often instoned message people or E-mail, if ya know what i mean. w00t!
Posted by: Dav at Dec 23, 2003 2:09:34 PM
I know this problem way too well :)
Posted by: Daisy at Dec 23, 2003 5:19:25 PM
How the heck do they know that
a.) that the person is intoxicated
Well I was going to say that their use of English would appear mangled and even incoherent. But the OMG WTF BBQ teenspeak (to borrow a line from Aunty Caz) I all to often encounter out there suggests that recognising this may require complex methods of decoding.
As for the who they're texting, I can only hope that they simply asked the women.
Posted by: Declan at Dec 25, 2003 2:06:39 AM
Ditto, Dav! My thoughts get a little too long and complicated for the phone keypad. And so far no-one's ever written back and said "what were you thinking?" So I stand by my ability to write articulate messages from a higher plane.
Posted by: Ruby at Dec 25, 2003 11:20:39 AM
I think there someone should invent a breathalyzer for the phone, and after your BAC reaches a certain limit, you can only call a cab... Stop Drunk Dialing and Intextication! :)
Posted by: Steph at Dec 28, 2003 8:23:41 PM
Intextication!! hahahah!
Posted by: Jinky at Dec 30, 2003 6:26:14 PM
I know this problem way too well :)
Posted by: Thomas Roulette at Jul 20, 2004 7:23:53 PM
What other problems do you have besides being unemployed, a moron and a dork?
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