Sometimes, these are texts that are not necessarily from people you know, but are from entities you do communicate with.įor example, a minute ago an Instacart shopper sent me a text about which type of papaya I wanted as part of a shopping run. These are generally texts from businesses and services you've opted into over time. These are the junk texts you get that are so ludicrous and so far from anything you'd consider valid that they're mere annoyances.īut then there's the middle ground. In other words, really indisputably relevant text from people you're actively connecting with.Īt the other end of the spectrum are the messages that are clearly spam. This is your buddy, who you've been working on a car with, asking you to run to the store for a spare part.
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This is your wife, who you know is on the way home, asking if you want ice cream. This is not the classic relative stuck in a foreign country thing. The first category consists of texts that come from people you are in active conversation with, with the message content so deeply relevant to your life that you know those messages have to be from the actual people you're normally conversing with.
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Instead, it's about how to think about texts that come into your phone and how to protect yourself.įor the purpose of this discussion, think of incoming texts as falling into three categories.
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Google's tech support is worseīut this article isn't supposed to be about geeking out on linguistic hacks. Microsoft makes free virtual machine available for download.Thanksgiving alert: These hackers work holidays.