Marina
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Post by Marina on Aug 26, 2014 21:29:16 GMT
Warning: may appear as a rant. :-) Okay I will admit they come in handy with a group of friends to decide on an outing's time and place. Or perhaps for notifying a group about a change in an activity. But often a friend will issue out an information gathering request ("do you know....") or "hey I'm going to this event anyone want to come" to 20 + people and then not only do I get all their responses (people I don't know) but then additional conversation items (hey, want to go to the beach?) for the original text writer. I will be in the midst of a call and numerous responses will come chiming in, none of which have anything to do with me.
I did read an ios 8 article that promises hope where one can silence a specific group text. Yay!!!!
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Post by eebud on Aug 26, 2014 21:35:27 GMT
I want to be able to do more than silence a group text. I want to be able to leave the group text altogether just like you can leave a conversation when someone puts you in a group message on FB. I don't have unlimited texting and I don't text enough to want to pay for unlimited texting. Probably about 75% of the people that I know have an iPhone with iMessage turned on so their texts don't go against my text plan. But, they can put me in a group message and many of those replying might not have an iPhone so people I don't know are using up my text plan. Could I pay for unlimited text? Sure. But, why should I have to spend money for something I don't want or need because others want to send group texts. The worst are around the holidays when someone will send a Happy Thanksgiving or a Merry Christmas to 100 people and they all start replying back Merry Christmas or Happy Thanksgiving. Ugh!!
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Post by lucyg on Aug 26, 2014 21:42:22 GMT
YES!! and my sister and nieces are the worst offenders. My sister texts something to her DDs and me ... then one niece will start a long involved conversation with her mother and I will have to read all of it. SHUT UP ALREADY. But not as bad as eebud's nightmare scenario of 100 people all wishing each other merry Christmas.  |
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Post by back to *pea*ality on Aug 26, 2014 21:44:46 GMT
Yes. The next iOS update will let you leave the conversation - thanks goodness!
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Post by krazykatlady on Aug 26, 2014 21:47:33 GMT
The last couple of months of my MIL's life my SIL would send out group text to the children and grandchildren updating them on what was going on with Mom/Grandma. It was great getting the updates until the two oldest brothers decided they had to respond to every little thing that came across. It was like a contest to see who got the last word in. Just stupid things like "ok, thanks" "no, thank you" "no really, I thank you" ... they would keep this stupid crap going for hours. These are two grown men (71 and 63) who have no business having cell phones. They were actually doing this traveling to the funeral and one of my nephews wife finally responded "if you two don't knock it off, you're going to be seeing your mother again a lot sooner than you think."
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Post by jenjie on Aug 26, 2014 21:50:13 GMT
I'm in the market for a texting app for iPhone for this reason. On my droid I could send texts to multiple people without it being a group text. With the handcent app I could choose whether to send as a group text or not. I could also set up groups and not have all replies go to everyone.
I'm disappointed that iPhone doesn't support handcent. Does anyone know of another free texting app that will do the same thing?
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Post by eebud on Aug 26, 2014 21:59:27 GMT
Yes. The next iOS update will let you leave the conversation - thanks goodness! That is AWESOME!!! I don't understand why it has taken this long. I have an iPhone 5s so I should not have any issues upgrading to the new iOS when it comes out. It is before the holidays..........right? LOL I think it usually comes out in September every year with the new iPhone behind it by a week or two in October. Not sure if they are following their usual release schedule though. |
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Post by FLA SummerBaby on Aug 26, 2014 22:00:46 GMT
Yes! I am in 2 small groups and once those women start the group texts, my phone blows up. One night I was at a meeting for something else and intentionally left my phone in the car. When I came back (after just 2 hours) I had more than 50 texts from this group. Crazy!
Glad to hear that the next update will make the option of leaving a group a possibility!!
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Post by eebud on Aug 26, 2014 22:04:22 GMT
I'm in the market for a texting app for iPhone for this reason. On my droid I could send texts to multiple people without it being a group text. With the handcent app I could choose whether to send as a group text or not. I could also set up groups and not have all replies go to everyone. I'm disappointed that iPhone doesn't support handcent. Does anyone know of another free texting app that will do the same thing? I used to use a texting app. I don't think it had that much functionality but at least when someone sent a text to it, it didn't go against my text plan. However, this also meant that people needed to have 2 different phone numbers for me in their contacts and use one for phone calls and the other for texts. The text app had talk capability too but it had terrible reception so I never answered it. The worst text offenders were the ones who always forgot to use my special text number so it would use my app. I finally gave up and quit using the app. I was using Pinger. |
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Post by Native New Yorker on Aug 26, 2014 22:26:31 GMT
I want to be able to do more than silence a group text. I want to be able to leave the group text altogether just like you can leave a conversation when someone puts you in a group message on FB. I hate group texts!! Also, can someone tell me how to leave a group conversation on Facebook??? |
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Post by Anna*Banana on Aug 26, 2014 22:36:11 GMT
No way! My one group of friends communicates almost daily using group texts. They are a great touch stone to keeping things in perspective and not taking life too seriously. Love my girls!
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Marina
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Post by Marina on Aug 26, 2014 22:40:16 GMT
Here is a link to the new messaging capabilities including deleting specific people from a conversation, and leaving it altogether. Hooray!!! www.apple.com/ios/ios8/messages/ Eebud that holiday group texting might make me into a grinch and I love Christmas. Thank you all for feeling my pain! This morning it drove me nuts. |
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Post by Marina on Aug 26, 2014 22:43:10 GMT
Anna, that is a good use of group texting! And clearly you know all the people involved. :-)
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Post by JustTricia on Aug 26, 2014 22:47:50 GMT
I don't mind group texts in general. I don't like when my dad is included in them. He has a flip phone, and for some reason the texts don't come to him in order, if all of them show up at all. And then he bitches because he can't follow what's going on and unfortunately I'm the closest one to hear all the bitching. The man can't follow a conversation that happens in front of him, let alone through text.
The only other time I've had an issue is when a friend has group texted her friends, and I don't know half of them. I now respond to her personally instead of group response. She texted Happy Some Holiday (don't remember which one), and I responded Happy Some Holiday to you, too! I got two NASTY texts from people on the group list (not group texts, direct to me) that asked who was I, how did I get their number, and why was I texting them? Weird.
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Post by garcia5050 on Aug 26, 2014 23:36:32 GMT
I have a crappy phone with limited messaging. I think it's only 250 a month. Group texts kill me. Especially in December. Group text party invites are also a pain. But I do recognize that I should probably pony up for unlimited texts. In the past 5 years, I've only paid extra three times.
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Post by eebud on Aug 26, 2014 23:37:43 GMT
I want to be able to do more than silence a group text. I want to be able to leave the group text altogether just like you can leave a conversation when someone puts you in a group message on FB. I hate group texts!! Also, can someone tell me how to leave a group conversation on Facebook??? If you are on your computer, you can bring up a conversation that you want to leave. In the top right corner, there is a gear looking thing. Click on it. You can then click on Leave Conversation. I have not found a Leave Conversation on my iPhone app but it does have a Mute where you can quit getting notified of responses. To do this, bring up the conversation then click on the "i" in the top right corner. This will display a some options and you can click on Mute. From here, you can say "Until I turn it back on" and your notifications should stop. |
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Post by eebud on Aug 26, 2014 23:42:06 GMT
Here is a link to the new messaging capabilities including deleting specific people from a conversation, and leaving it altogether. Hooray!!! www.apple.com/ios/ios8/messages/ Eebud that holiday group texting might make me into a grinch and I love Christmas. Thank you all for feeling my pain! This morning it drove me nuts. Thanks for the link!!! I can't wait for this. I will definitely upgrade my phone to the new iOS. |
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Post by Basket1lady on Aug 26, 2014 23:44:07 GMT
I was going to respond that I love group texts, but I've never been involved in one that had 100 in the group! I have unlimited texting, but that would make me crazy.
We were in Paris over spring break and I started getting carpool texts for the following week. Before I could turn off that group text, I'd racked up over $8 in fees. Not a big deal in the grand scheme of life, but I was irritated that I had wasted $8. Mostly irritated at myself for not turning off the data, but still irritated!
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Post by epeanymous on Aug 26, 2014 23:45:28 GMT
I don't like them either. I got rid of my cell phone. That helped . |
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Post by Native New Yorker on Aug 26, 2014 23:54:49 GMT
I hate group texts!! Also, can someone tell me how to leave a group conversation on Facebook??? If you are on your computer, you can bring up a conversation that you want to leave. In the top right corner, there is a gear looking thing. Click on it. You can then click on Leave Conversation. I have not found a Leave Conversation on my iPhone app but it does have a Mute where you can quit getting notified of responses. To do this, bring up the conversation then click on the "i" in the top right corner. This will display a some options and you can click on Mute. From here, you can say "Until I turn it back on" and your notifications should stop. Thank you so much! |
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Post by melodyesch on Aug 27, 2014 0:00:14 GMT
ME! I very rarely get texts but somehow a young girl put my phone number in a group text of 20 other girls discussing their sleepover for the following night. I responded that she had put in the wrong number but the group continued texting for what seemed like 24 hours straight!
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