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Read receipts just introduce anxiety.
Few people had anxiety about messages before read receipts, they created the anxiety.
:this: Nothing has me riddled with anxiety quite like the pressure of having to respond right away to a message after they get my read receipt. It feels like a time bomb starting to tick.
I don't think read receipts really benefit users at all. The entire point is to introduce the anxiety it creates so that people feel compelled into activity, from the company perspective they want read receipts because the act of having them improves and raises user activity on a given app, or increases the number of text messages people send each other if it's the phone company itself.
It is something that mostly affects users negatively but exists because it benefits companies.
Don't send reciepts because I don't want people to know i'm reading their messages until I want them to know I'm reading their messages
why the fuck would I want somebody to know if I've looked at their message
Death to America
I didn't know this was a thing, I thought not sending read receipts was just some inherent advantage I had using older phones.
people with ADHD for letting their loved ones know they just forgot to respond and weren’t ignoring them
This is a compassionate angle I had not considered before, normally I try not to think of DMs or texts as anything other than sending a letter because I think it's easy to obsess over the latency for lack of better words.* Urgency requires a phone call.
*@Awoo has better words upthread
PSA for iOS if you’re not aware: you can set read receipts per recipient, contrary to the global toggle in the device settings. So you could disable it globally and enable it for select people, and vice-versa. Just tap on the contact’s name in the message thread.
