'k' gets my vote.

It just suggests to me that you're too lazy to bother putting all the effort into typing that extra letter, and therefore probably not worth talking to.

Just wondering, but how many texts per month do most people make/receive?
I think my average is around 9 or 10.
I don't exactly lie on my stomach in bed with my little feet kicking in the air behind me wasting time texting about irrelevant bullshit 24 hours a day. If I need to contact someone, I call them. If I can't reach them, I'll leave a voicemail. End of story. Am I just oldschool, or is there some deep and hidden world I don't know about?

As far as Facebook responses or whatever, I couldn't give less of a shit. I don't think I've ever even had a notable conversation on it, except for a few particular people, with whom my conversations actually have a point.
I don't IM really, either. I used to when I was about 16. Plus when I was in Iraq and my then-fiance wanted to chat. Tried it several times since then.. and it's utterly boring.

I don't want to sound like a dick... but seriously... I don't get it.

Actually a lot of the time it is. If I say "oh" in reply to someone it means I'm disappointed/pissed off at their last text.

What the.... Why not just say you're disappointed/pissed off?
What if they don't know? Then you've wasted a text, and they'll still be douchebags!

exactly why aren't people capable of using their words and communicating?

people aren't mind readers

I don't know other people's reasons for texting but when I have a daily texting buddy it's just an extra task/something to do. To just chitchat about random things and to pass time especially if I'm somewhere at a meeting and bored out of my mind.

Because I don't want to be specifically ****ty to make me look like a uptight bitch and I'm too nice sometimes to say something (usually insignificant) bothers me. If they get the hint good, if not, they still suck for however long it bothers me for.

DJ it's called being passive-aggressive, women tend to do this. You can't change all of us. As sexist as you try to be.

I'm not trying to change anyone and being passive aggressive isn't only something women do. and I'm the one being sexist? hmmm

passive aggressive people in general piss me off. Just say what you have to say, I'm not a mind reader. My last male roommate was the same way and then just out of the blue he would blow up at me for random **** that happened months ago. Why didn't you just say the **** was bothering you back then instead of holding it so long to the point where you feel the need to blow up.

Because that is the way some people work. It's their coping mechanism. Sometimes things aren't worth going crazy at someone for. You have to pick your fights in life.

yeah....ummm but they DO end up going crazy. It's better to say what you have to say now and get it off your chest than holding onto it for months and months until you explode in a volcano of emotions.

I know that because I used to be that way in the past. I would let alot of things slide and then it would just go up in smokes one day.

I guess that makes sense. Doesn't really relate to my life though, and I guess that's where the difference lies. Personally, I'd never text people in the middle of a business meeting.. And I always have plenty to do (although I like to avoid it wherever possible)... and if I'm down to passing time solely on my phone, then I much rather sources made available by it, than idle chat with a friend that will accomplish absolutely nothing. In my life, my friends have shit to do, and I have shit to do. It's mutual. I guess, because this is true, that the opposite of it must be also.

I've never blown up like that before. I don't get angry without a good reason.

I can't stand texting. It's boring as hell. My thumbs can never be bothered and it annoys my friends that I don't text back enough.

I change my mind from before. It's definitely "lol". It means whatever you said wasn't funny (or else you'd get a hahaha+ (only 2 ha's doesn't cut it either)), plus it effectively ends the conversation meaning they don't want to talk to you.

:finger: yeah thats right

I have had that. If you feel that awkward texting I can only imagine the feeling in a real conversation. I guess those are the people that break out laughing like a crazy person.

That reminds me of saying "LOL" after your own joke. Could you imagine that happening in real life?

some people DO laugh after their own jokes though in real life

I do. I think im funny as ****. Why else would I tell a joke if I didnt think it was funny.

I'm not talking about "Knock knock who's there?" I'm talking about snark, witty comments, original material, etc. If you don't laugh when doing those things, it enhances them about 10,000 times.

i envy guys who are able to tell jokes.
when i'm with my friends, i'm always the listener rather than the talker.
the one who laughs rather than the one who makes people laugh.

most of the times i say something serious and people tend to laugh cause they said i made a funny comment yet, i don't get it cause i was not joking.
and oftentimes i intentionally tell a joke, and everyone gives me that confused look. it's not annoying but its kind of mysterious cause i'm really laughing my ass off already while all of them are just like lost.

well, different strokes for different folks i guess.