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Post by huskermom98 on Mar 22, 2021 17:59:09 GMT
I sometimes clean up conversations (DH used to send a text to let me know he was on his way home everyday). I needed to be better about cleaning up texts from my flower lady neighbor when I was delivering for her because not only did we text a lot, but she would send multiple ones that could have been in just one message. I don't want to delete the entire thread yet, but I don't want to look at them to delete then because it will just piss me off...it was an ugly split when I quit.
I need to be better about deleting ones from businesses or delivery people, but I rarely think of it.
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J u l e e
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Post by J u l e e on Mar 22, 2021 18:10:56 GMT
I didn’t used to but I accidentally deleted my text thread with my daughter that was years long - ever since she got her first phone. I almost cried over the significance of all that fun history of memes and conversations gone - especially with her twelve year old self. So I started deleting texts after that - just to keep myself from being so emotionally tied to them. I’ll screen shot things now, but it’s easier to just let them go if I do it all the time. That probably only makes sense in my head.
I’ll keep a text until I no longer need to respond or remember to do something. Then it’s gone. Like my email inbox.
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Post by Zee on Mar 22, 2021 19:38:21 GMT
Never, they just sit there until I get a new phone.
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Post by iamkristinl16 on Mar 22, 2021 20:21:02 GMT
I do, partly to clear things up and make sure I don’t miss something from someone important. But partly because I run out of room on my phone.
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peaname
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Post by peaname on Mar 22, 2021 20:30:18 GMT
If there's sensitive info then yes. Junk texts, immediately.
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oh yvonne
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Post by oh yvonne on Mar 22, 2021 20:44:21 GMT
I rarely do, its back up for me in case I forget if I asked for something, or promised something, made plans, etc. Plus, my DB passed away unexpectedly a year 1/2 ago and when I miss him I scroll through our history and I like to pretend he's still here.
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QueenoftheSloths
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Post by QueenoftheSloths on Mar 22, 2021 20:52:10 GMT
I don't get texts very often at all, and I delete them right away when I do regardless of who they are from.
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Post by ScrapbookMyLife on Mar 23, 2021 5:32:52 GMT
Yes I do.
I delete people or business, if nothing in those texts needs to be saved.
I regularly edit texts from those in my contacts. I delete random conversation, and retain info and photos.
I generally use waiting time, to scroll through and edit/delete texts. Last week at the eye Doctor (wait in waiting room, wait in exam room), I was kept waiting at least 30 minutes in each room, so I used that time to edit and delete my texts.
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twinsmomfla99
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Post by twinsmomfla99 on Mar 23, 2021 12:43:02 GMT
I delete frequently because so many memes and shared pictures take up a lot of storage. However, I have a very funny family and friends circle, and some of the texts are very entertaining. So before I delete, I will screenshot anything I want to save, and it gets backed up to my photo storage if I want to access a particular memory. Some of these even make it into my scrapbook pile. ETA: One conversation I screenshot for posterity was the conversation my brother and I had on election night 2016. Early in the evening he broke the news to me that former was going to win. He is big into data (that's his job), and he was following online conversations about how the vote was breaking down that evening. He saw the signs in PA, MI, and WI that suggested Hillary was losing, and slowly over the course of the evening, he delivered more and more bad news. I pulled those up again on election night 2020, and we discussed why Biden was going to win this time. He even brought up the possibility of taking GA. I don't know why I am always so surprised when brother gets it right--he usually does LOL.
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scrappington
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Post by scrappington on Mar 23, 2021 15:26:20 GMT
I'm not as bad as I was but I delete. Usually every couple of days. I used to delete every day and then people would respond and I'd be like what are they saying I don't get it. It was a running joke you had a window to respond to me or I'd move on to next topic.
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Post by originalvanillabean on Mar 24, 2021 1:40:17 GMT
Nope. Only wrong number or ad ones.
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Post by chaosisapony on Mar 24, 2021 3:07:29 GMT
I've never bothered to, no.
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hannahruth
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Post by hannahruth on Mar 24, 2021 6:52:53 GMT
Same as you. I delete conversations from people I don't know, but friends, coworkers, and family texts stay forever. I get photos in texts so I keep them all even though I save the photos elsewhere. All those pesky texts from businesses etc I don't need them taking up space!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 24, 2021 13:12:20 GMT
I delete pics/videos from conversations if I don't need them anymore and they take up tons of space in my cloud acct.
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paigepea
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Post by paigepea on Mar 24, 2021 13:18:33 GMT
Not daily but I do.
Picture and video attachments take up space.
The odd time a friend and I gossip through text we make a pact to erase the text stream. I try to not gossip over text.
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Post by mikklynn on Mar 24, 2021 15:42:29 GMT
Funny this should come up - my sister and I were just having this discussion yesterday. We both delete our texts, not right away but usually at the end of the day or the next day - we don't see a need to keep them once that particular conversation is over. She and a friend of hers were discussing this a week or so ago and her friend looked at her so strangely - her friend has never deleted a text, ever! She doesn't understand why we would, yet we don't understand why she wouldn't That's what I thought reading this thread. It never occurred to me to not delete texts.
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