While “texting” used to mean sending SMS messages, the term has been expanded to cover really most messaging services that many of us use on a daily basis. Fortunately, the word “texting” has pretty long legs and still does cover most of the things we might use it for.
The “Funny Texts” Facebook page is dedicated to both the amusing messages that people have sent and relatable memes in general. So get comfortable as you scroll through, upvote your favorites, and be sure to comment your thoughts below.
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That one hits me hard. Watched it happen to my Great Grandmother. I suspect it runs in the family so she won't be the last.
The core of a good meme, beyond humor or creativity, is that kernel of relatability. Richard Dawkins, who coined the phrase meme, envisioned it as a viral idea that spread from person to person much like a virus. However, what he didn’t expect was the fact that much of this information would center around humor and that the internet is an incredibly potent vector for “infection.”
Part of the appeal is that the ideas carried by the meme either focus on a shared experience or emotion or work with familiar information and context. This comes from the high degree of intertextuality that memes possess. After all, we can generally understand the situations depicted in memes through our own life experiences, other memes, or just general knowledge of the world.
At a certain point, memes have become self-referential. If you have ever had to explain a meme to an older relative or someone “less online,” you will know that internet lore is deep. Some memes require a person to understand multiple other references, just to understand the context needed to enjoy certain memes.
It's always fun to get each other up to date about all the chaos that has happened in our lives in between chats
I feel like there's a middle ground here. I don't need to hear from a friend every day, nor do I check in every day. But anything less than a couple of times a month tells me that our friendship is not a priority. Which is fine. Life happens. But a lot can happen in 6 months and I might not be the same person you were friends with.
But if you just lost a parent and can't reach them for comfort EVER, but they can always reach you when they need you, it's time to rethink the friendship.
Real friends are there when you need them, and they know that you will be there for them. We don’t need to live in each other’s pockets.
I'm sorry, but no. Like every other relationship, it takes maintenance. Don't fall off the face of the earth and expect me to be there for you. I don't need to talk to people everyday, but for the life of me can't figure out how you call someone a friend you only communicate with on rare occasions. It isn't cute. It isn't admirable, it is neglectful. At that point, call them what they are. Acquaintances. Can you think of any other relationship in your life that you consider important, but don't consider it important enough to check in more often than twice a year?
I totally agree with that. If a "friend" doesn't remember about me for 6 months, do they need me in their life at all?
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I lost touch with my best friend from school. In my 30s I got a letter, I recognised the writing. She came to stay with me, it was like the intervening 20 years hadn't happened. She's coming to visit again in May, we're in our 60s now. I'm smiling just thinking about it.
My best friends and I talk maybe twice a year. When we do, it's like we just spoke yesterday.
My best friend and I have a thing we do where if we feel like we haven’t talked enough, we send two questions, one fun/silly one, and one personal one. It works really well.
That's the secret of the best friendships I have for over 25 years. Then you call every 6 months on birthday occasions or to arrange some week-end together and you get stuck on the phone for two hours straight with so much to tell each other. It's like you just resume the conversation where you left it last time. I don't like phone calls in general but I kinda like it.
How about like 15 years and be like hey what's up? Want a hang? sure let's!
I have a friend from HS, and we check on each other every few years.
I've got a neice and a cousin who haven't responded to me in nearly a year. I think I'm just about done.
This hits a little too close to home... I used to have this friend, we were BEST FRIENDS since 5th grade, we got along right away and we always hung out at school, and we were so excited when we both got phones and we could talk to each other more. We texted ( I'll admit even RP text lol it was fun ) every day, sometimes even call weekly, for years. But suddenly, the past year or two they slowly stopped texting as much, so I did too to respect the fact that not everyone likes to text often, but it was odd after such a long time. I missed talking to them and I noticed how they'd ignore some of my questions and such like what college their going to etc, ( for years we've talked about how we'll go to the same college and live together for a bit along with some other friends) and I'm a big friend person, growing in a strict religious house where I couldn't be as me as I could with friends, my friends are my family, so I grew worried and sad when out talks happened less and less.
they would always say they were just stressed from school and work, yet I could see them talking a lot with other people online ( though i know friends can have other friends I wasn't jealous bc of that), and I realized they were growing away from me, then it happened... This New Year day, I got a text from them saying they were exhausted of me and didn't want to be friends anymore. Of course I left them be, I understood, but it still hurt like heck, my best friend of YEARS, we told each other everything.... suddenly didn't want me anymore..
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Life gets in the way, but you will always love each other and be there for them in an instant. I have a friend like this, she lives quite some distance from me and we will visit each other a couple of times a year but our text conversations are few and far between because we have lives and we each understand that.
Sometimes life just happens. My best friends are now scattered over various European countries. It seems strange when you are in your 20s, but if you are 50+, a year flies by and you realise that even with Whatsapp you only had contact once. New job, moving, kids, more moving, another new job, all kinds of sudden maintenance jobs around the house, kids move out, kids get kids, parents needing care, pets, hobbies, more maintenance, ...
As a rule, if I don't physically see you for 3 months then I unfriend you on FB.
why? that seems like it defeats the purpose of stalking on social media
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Every evening I fall asleep on the couch for about 30 minutes before I go upstairs to bed to fall asleep
It's not the money going out to inconsequentials, it's the fact that every generation since the boomers has been consistently underpaid.
Was in Lidl the other day and a woman was wondering where the lettuce was. I pointed and said "Iceburg deåd ahead" I couldn't resist myself. We both laughed so all was good 👍
My mother also. Used to pick her up every Saturday for breakfast and shopping. Pulled in the driveway one beautiful summer day and she opened the door, holding her phone, saying "Oh...nevermind. She's here now." When she got in the car I asked who she was talking to and she said "The police." I asked WHY??? and she said because I was late and I was never late so she thought something happened. I replied that I had TOLD her I'd be late because I had a dentist appointment. She said "Ohhhh....that's right! Where do you want to go to eat?".
If he ate it all without noticing, it obviously wasn't any worse than what he was used to.
Omg I feel this. My parents performed only the required parenting duties which did not include extra curriculars, displays of love, compassion, encouragement etc. and I love them but my adult life has been very difficult to navigate.
Well what's your plan for November then? Should use it well because it sounds like your only days off the whole year
"Ya went and broke my only rule" - line I love from song that was rhymed with "I refuse to be your fool"
I tell my daughter this but she’s too busy hoping her bf is something he’s not so it goes in one ear and out the other. I hope she realizes before she puts ten years in waiting for change.
My brother did that until he died 3 years ago. I aspire to his example.
I'm at the wealth level where I have a panic attack and suck it up and get back to work in ten minutes. Yeah that happened today. Panic attacks suck.
18 years in hospital, emergency department. S****y painful exhausting job. But i miss the hundreds of colleagues i had, i miss the laughs, the pranks, the jokes...
Unfortunately for the rest of us, 15 year olds exist and now I feel very old.
Hah. Me for the past 3 years. And not only did nobody notice, my best friends of 25+ years can't even be bothered to speak to me.
Lies I do understand this because I didn't want to skip the theme songs and so I ran to the bathroom because why skip to the end of the show when you could be back when the new episode starts playing. And with call of duty I ran in between matches to go to the bathroom.
My husband and I were states away, me in the middle of the country and he was on the East Coast. He drove the 23 hours to visit. I would fly back and forth to see him. The only heartache about it was when we had to split without knowing when we'd see each other again. We will be married for 10 years this August.
As they say ... "Ignorance is bliss". As the Great Buddha once said, you have to "Let that S**t go." Rinse, repeat.
Nope. Train them right. They might be a spy. Develop trust. THEN show the way it's done.
Somebody 5,000 miles away couldn't be this reasonable. Which is why we broke up!
Yep. As my mother aged, her filters stopped working. Turns out my mother was a bawdy old lady and I'm right on track to follow suit!
Or you can get into a massive argument, but then one of you says something so funny that you both end up laughing and it ends the fight.
One time, I turned my face purple from laughing at my own joke before I even said it.
If you have to beg him for anything you're just a place holder while he's looking for someone else.
Interesting thing is, I keep thinking why do people buy so much groceries and how much money they've spent and they annoy me, but I still watch them. Especially that one with the long nails and ring on every finger, with white sleves which go up to her fingers. Girl, when you're cleaning the fridge, roll up your sleves, you'll mess up your sweatshirt. >.<
I barely even remember my own birthday, don't mind if people don't say HB to me, and don't particularly like it if people get angry when I don't remember theirs.
I felt that one. Also NO I don’t want to look back at memories 6y ago with an ex…
Well considering they know you can't walk around in real life wearing 17 filters, they're not surprised
The title " This Page Shares Hilarious Posts And Texts, Here Are The 97 Best Ones" is very misleading there was maybe one funny in this whole batch. The rest was all some kind of wallowing in introspection.
The title " This Page Shares Hilarious Posts And Texts, Here Are The 97 Best Ones" is very misleading there was maybe one funny in this whole batch. The rest was all some kind of wallowing in introspection.
