>check your phone i sent the msg FIVE minutes ago That's around the point when I explain that the phone is for my convenience, not theirs. Or... That's what I

>check your phone i sent the msg FIVE minutes ago That's around the point when I explain that the phone is for my convenience, not theirs. Or... That's what I'd like to say anyway.. In reality, I do feel that social pressure to respond -- hell, I even feel guilty if I don't respond at all (which is ridiculous!). The problem is that I sometimes let my "triage" habits from email slip over into my text handling. For instance, I'll receive a text and actually instantly open it, but upon gauging its "importance" in the context of other activities (usually work) I'll mentally file it under "deal with later," and go back to what I'm doing. And, of course, being that text messages don't have anything approaching the organization of email, I usually end up forgetting to ever write people back all together. I sure wish there was a "mark unread" function for texts on Android.. It'd make me seem a lot less of a anti-social dick.