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We’re all used to scheduling emails so we can both hide our neediness at getting a prompt response and appear more professional in our hours than we actually are. Many email apps are just scheduled messages responding to each other with minimal human involvement
But you may have noticed you can now schedule a text on Android or iPhone. A text! That casual blue bubble filled with bad grammar and dumb emojis and slang that’s gradually murdering the English language.
Why would someone need to schedule a text? If someone regularly texts as part of their professional life, then they likely schedule texts for the same reason we all schedule emails. It’s the people who use this feature for social reasons that I’m interested in.
Regardless of the logic behind it, there’s something about scheduling a social text that seems a bit serial-killerish in nature, like the person has a notepad that says, “Schedule text to Suzy for 10:01 a.m., followed by “Dispose of body.” I could be wrong about that.
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