Yet the tools are ineffective.Īpple’s iOS includes Focus, a tool released last year to manage how phone notifications appear in various aspects of our lives, including at work, at home, when we’re driving or heading to bed. To minimize the likelihood that we will be bombarded by texts, Apple and Google have added layers of settings to tell others when we are busy.
“It should be something that everybody should have and not have to worry or think about,” she said of the need for a universal private texting service. Texting is also not the most secure form of communication, especially in a post-Roe era when privacy is more important than ever, said Caitlin George, a managing director at Fight for the Future, a digital rights advocacy group. “That’s something over the past three years everybody has struggled with, and it’s playing out on your home screen.” “Where does your work end, and where does your personal life begin?” said Justin Santamaria, one of the iPhone engineers who developed the iMessage app more than a decade ago. Texting invites us to intrude on other people’s time.
Since texting typically takes only a few seconds and is widely considered the most urgent, attention-grabbing form of digital communication, it’s difficult to set boundaries around texting with our colleagues and friends. The pros of text messaging can easily turn into cons.
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