#phone problems

Some of you may have noticed I haven't been posting as much over the last week...

Well sadly my old phone randomly stopped working and I had it get it replaced. I thankfully have got my new one now but all my other drawings still need to be hopefully transferred over from my other one which is currently in phone jail in a draw because the stupid alarms still keep going off :')

Dear Diary,

These bitches got me fucked up. I am simply over the concept of texting all together. Like why do people initiate text threads that go absolutely nowhere. Or, only inquire for information. People don’t even respond in a timely fashion. I’m so over the nonchalance game, or the petty paced bullshit. Be fucking original. Christ. What’s the fucking point of asking me what I am doing for the day, what I’m to, if you have zero intention or interest in responding whatsoever. Just leave me the fuck alone. Stop disrupting my peace. It’s so damn annoying. How about you preface what you’re up to and ask if I want to join in, if you even want me to join in at all. Fuck. Drives me up the wall.

The crazy part is its not only dudes who are terrible texters playing manipulation tactics anymore, it be your “friends” too, like you too seriously. Bitch I do not care for this shit when dudes do it, you think I’m going to give a shit when you do it too. Eat shit. They are no better than a “man.” Some stupid ass shit. Bitch you’re gonna get yourself blocked.

Like seriously, what is the point of having contacts on your phone if you sparsely speak to them at all throughout the entire year. I have no interest in playing stupid games. Tired of people coming in and disrupting my chill time alone only to bring in their shitty confusing energy into my space. Keep that shit to yourself. If you want to speak to me, call me. Texting has been the death of me since freaking middle school. I’ve only been texting for a decade and I’m so over it. The worst thing ever invented. Just gives people an excuse to hide behind their fucking screen. Be a real motherfucker and pick up the damn phone. Make it a minute thing instead of making me wait 5 business days to hear back on a conversation they initiated btw. If I wanted to hear back in 5 days, I would send a damn letter instead.

What is wrong with people. Everything has enshittified like you wouldn’t believe in a matter of a decade. For fucks sake. Tired of it. I am just going to go back and receded into my hermit life in a cave with no name and fuck off on my own. I don’t care to entertain bullshit. If you need me, you don’t. If you know me, now you don’t. Stay in your lane and I’ll stay in mine. I have no interest in you in general, or your stupid ass behavior.

Then they want to play coy and be like “oh I didn’t see your text,” bitch if you weren’t going to…then why bother me? Or “sorry, I’ve been so swamped,” like bitch you think I was born yesterday? They be posting on instagram telling on themselves, they think they’re so slick. Fuck off. They don’t even believe the bullshit excuse they are trying to sell you on, but also YOU fucking bothered me, wtf? ? So annoying.

At one point, I was apparently sending out text messages that were coming through as Chinese characters.

My ability to do group texts disintegrated.

And, of course, there's the ongoing irritation of how my texting app interacts with the iPhone one:

I send a text. I include a couple of pictures.

They respond by tapping the "heart" icon to establish which photo they "loved." On their screen, the relevant photo now has a heart on it.

On my screen I get an entirely separate text that says, "So-and-so Loved a photo."

Or, if they're responding to the text proper, it will say, So-and-so Liked "Here's a couple of..."

I am irritated at the way this app interacts with all the other texting platforms so I'm sure as hell not going to switch to apple now.

But I have a much bigger problem. I'm very late to the party on this, but just in case the rest of you are also unaware:

It seems that the Android phones all let their texting apps die.

Quietly, they stopped updating them, and now they offer Google messenger as the default app. This started as long ago as 2024.

I got my new (to me) phone this week, and when I tried to set it all up, it tried to get me to use Google messenger. I went looking for an alternate app for that.

My Play Store wants me to use the one offered by Meta. No fucking way.

So now my options appear to be:

Just use the Google one, which I don't want to do for a variety of reasons, including that I use different Google accounts for different things.

Use a free app from the app store that gives me ads that look exactly like unread messages.

Use a free app from the play store that makes me look at an app every time I open the app to use it; including video ads that play at media volume.

Use Signal, which means getting all my people to use it with me

Use Meta which is run by nazis

Use What's App which is run by Meta

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