: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.
: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.