What the hell is David Wygant talking about today? Here’s what: When you just take a “ready, set, send” approach to texting, sending those words into cyberspace and onto somebody else’s phone, so many times it just comes out as gibberish.

I’ll tell you something, I’ve seen lots of peoples’ text writings, because I’ve approached a lot of guys and my friends have shared with it, and I’ve also probably, in my lifetime, done my share of text writing. But I’ve got to tell you something — it’s ridiculous. When you send something via text message, it is the most misinterpreted message out there. You’ve got to re-read it several times to figure out really what the hell is this person saying. Are they crazy? Have they lost their minds?

Cat Fights Over Texting

Be careful what you send on text. A lot of people don’t understand that. A lot of texts get misinterpreted consistently. That’s why there’s a lot of text fighting going on. E-mail’s the same way.

If you ever want to talk to somebody and really find something out, I suggest you do it verbally. Face-to-face of course is always the best, but if you can’t be face-to-face, then I do suggest you do it over the phone.

Be careful with texting though, because it will get thrown back in your face over and over and over again. Right now as I’m writing this, a friend of mine is getting a text figuring out, what the hell did his girlfriend just send him. Why is she talking such incredible gibberish?

What’s the worst text fight you’ve ever gotten involved with? I’d love to hear about it today.

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In this corner, we have a BlackBerry weighing 6.2 ounces.  In that corner, we’ve got an iPhone weighing 8.1 ounces. 

The iPhone has texting that you can do with your fingers that is a self-predicted type, but your fingers can’t be too big to get that little keyboard to work. The BlackBerry Pearl has predictive type where they actually choose words for you. The BlackBerry Curve doesn’t have the predictive typing, but it’s bigger so you’re able to type really fast on it.

Now the question is: Which device is best for text fighting? Text fighting is the newest thing in dating.

It’s a wonderful thing. You’re in the middle of an argument with the person you’re dating and they leave the house. Do you remember the good old days when you got into a little argument with your significant other, you walked out of the house and you were able to not talk to that person again until you were ready?

Well that is no more, because now there is the phenomenon of text fighting. Text fighting is wonderful because the second they walk out the door you can send them a text.  Why walk out the door like that? 

Not only that, but you can continue text fighting for hours. You can do it while you’re watching television. You can text fight while driving (although it’s not a brilliant thing to do and against the law in California). You can even do it at the office.

You can consistently text fight for hours — back and forth, circles and circles, round and round.  If you’re really good at texting, you can almost text them as quickly as they text you back.  Some of you are so fast you can have three texts for every one of theirs.

Fights used to last five or ten minutes.  Your lover would leave, you’d have a few hours to cool off, and by the time they got home you’d both apologize because you’d realize both of you were being an ass. 

Now-a-days with text fighting, though, you can continue a fight for long periods of time and even turn the original fight into other fights. Not only that, but text fighting gives each person proof of what an ass they were being during an argument. With text fighting, you can go back and re-read the texts you sent in anger, re-live each angry text.

It’s so destructive! Things that are said in anger should never be thrown back in somebody’s face. Things that are said in anger — whether they come out of your mouth or out of a BlackBerry — should be deleted right away.

They should never be re-read again, because we all say stupid things in anger. We all say stupid things at the wrong moment. You should never hold anyone to what they said in anger.

So if you do get into a text fight, delete those negative texts.  Delete them immediately, because they’re just going to bring more unnecessary bad stuff into your relationship.