I haven’t really texted anyone outside my family, ever, and I’m trying to reintegrate with the world. So if I have to get someone’s number to text, how do you go from asking to texting without seeming like a dimwit? Not how to write, I’ve spent far too much time online to think twice about that, but how do the platforms themselves work? I have an android device and have only ever texted other Android devices, so since most of my generation has apple, I was wondering what the dos and don’ts of cross-platform messaging were, and more importantly, how not to come off as a moron. Thanks
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Texting is texting. You’re overthinking it.
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