Trends: Are Holiday Group Texts The New Christmas Cards?
This Thanksgiving, we received no less than half a dozen group texts from various friends telling us how thankful they are to have us in their lives. Though we’d received the odd New Year’s Eve text in years past, this is the first year that the practice indeed seems to have become a bona fide trend. And, somehow, we couldn’t help but wonder how special we really are to those friends when we don’t even warrant our own personal message. What think ye, dear readers, of this trend? Are group texts the new Christmas cards? Do you plan on sending any this holiday season? Have you received any yourself yet? And, if so, what do you think of them?
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I have been getting these for at least 3 years and I’m pretty old. I prefer texts for a couple of reasons:I’m very busy and don’t really care for a Happy Thanksgiving phone call and,hell, save the paper! What I really hate are the chain texts I get from my 19 year old cousin saying I will die a fateful death if I don’t forward which I get at 2am!
Posted by pocachica | November 28, 2007
I have a few friends that have been sending the group text greeting for about 2 years. The texts don’t bother me but there’s no way I’m sending any out. Most of my 75 first cousins are all jam-packed into one house for the holidays so I’ll just say “Merry Christmas” in person.
Posted by Latin_Princess | November 28, 2007
I send happy new years texts cuz i’m drunk and I love everyone at that moment. Thanksgiving I’m usually annoyed, hungry (turkey? gross) and wanting to kill my family. No texts then.
Posted by Marco | November 28, 2007
Guilty.
Posted by Diego | November 28, 2007
“What I really hate are the chain texts I get from my 19 year old cousin saying I will die a fateful death if I don’t forward which I get at 2am!” Too funny! Or the ones that say “Send this to the prettiest 10 girls you know including the person who sent this to you” LAME and a weird way for people to get the affirmations they so desperately seem to need… sad really.
Posted by rebekah | November 28, 2007
I only send them on sanksgibin and xmas or new years. AND only to those people I know I won’t see.
I hate chain-letters, though.
Posted by Dan | November 28, 2007
I received a Thanksgiving text greeting from a # I didn’t know.
I texted back and asked who it was that was sending the Thanksgiving love.
It was from a guy who I am friendly with and have worked with before, but NOT that friendly with. An acquaintance really!
Anyway, he must have gotten my # somehow and I embarrassed him by not knowing or having his # on my cell.
Weird. Sad. Ugh.
Posted by Janie A Go-Go | November 28, 2007