<p>My son’s ex GF would occasionally text me regarding plans and such. I got a text one day from her that was meant for my son. I’ll spare you the details, but there were a few moments of “what the h*ll” before I realized it was for him. </p>
<p>I replied gently telling her of her mistake. She was quite embarassed but we ended up with a laugh over it.</p>
<p>funny thread !
dragonmom, you must have an Iphone. I hate the way it " corrects " the words.
I got a text not too long ago from an unknown person that rambled on and on about
" Mom’s cornbread tearin up my stomach " it went on about the unfortunate gastric side effects from my mother’s poor cooking skills. My mother doesn’t make cornbread …we all got some laughs about this poor person not knowing that his texts were not going where he intended.
Last summer, my daughter and I got Iphone 3G…for some reason , our phone numbers had to change. We both got numbers that belonged to other people. She was always getting messages about parties, but mine are more soccer mom and play date messages.</p>
<p>One day I spent a good bit of time texting some college student who was sending things to my number my mistake. She was wanting the notes from a Lit class she had missed to prepare for a test. I kept telling her she was sending to the wrong number. She was sure I was the person she wanted and was just being a ***** for not wanting to share my notes. It took about 6 exchanges to finally convince her she had written the number down wrong!</p>
<p>Well, you could have written up some notes for a lit class and sent them to her.</p>
<p>Yahoo Mail has pictures for yourself and others - I guess that this is useful so that when you send something to someone, it’s a visual tag that you’re sending the message to the right person.</p>
<p>D once liked a boy who didn’t like her until after she had stopped liking him. She received a text from him that was meant for one of his guy friends saying how stupid he was to let her go, blah, blah, blah.
I personally think he sent it to her on purpose because he was too much of a loser to man up about it. Idiot…</p>
<p>I once sent an e-mail to a boss meant for a co-worker, complaining. Boss called me into the office and was soooo cool about it. I was so embarrassed and grateful he wasn’t as jerky as he could have been.</p>
<p>My son and I were IMing early one Sunday morning when he said he and “Susan” were making breakfast. Now, I know most of my son’s friends, and Susan was a name I had not heard. Husband and were wondering if this was a girl becoming a girlfriend; I mean why else was there a girl at his house at 9:30 in the morning making breakfast?</p>
<p>As I am Iming with a few questions as to who she is and how did he know her, he tells me she is from out home town and her family belongs to our synagogue. I then tell him I know of her parents and that did he know she had a brother with a certain medical condition? The next IM I get is from Susan, saying hi and that is so cool you know of my parents! She and I chatted for a few minutes as I didn’t know how to pull away and I was a bit embarrassed I had said what I did about her brother, as if that defined who she was.</p>
<p>Turns out Susan is really just a friend. I would say my son really has a many female friends as male friends, but dad and I were hoping this might become something serious.</p>
<p>Just re-did the texting packages on my and my D’s phones. I got rid of my texting package (200 texts a month and I probably used 3 on a busy month) and upped D’s to unlimited from 200 a month. Who (over 50 years old) knew that 200 a month was so little?</p>
<p>My sister has made some huge emailing mistakes. In one she thought she was replying to one person and said some disparaging things about her former boss, and it turned out that it went to the entire list-serve for the professional organization!<br>
Recently she somehow allowed LinkedIn to take her Outlook contact list and invite them all to LinkedIn. She is now hearing from people who she never cared to hear from again! Now some of our elderly mother’s email contacts have joined LinkedIn!<br>
I am the Ethics and Compliance officer for a large corporation, and I only wish I could tell you some of the things that happen on email…</p>
<p>“I am the Ethics and Compliance officer for a large corporation, and I only wish I could tell you some of the things that happen on email…”</p>
<p>If I have something negative to say I go to the other person’s office or ask the person to my office or use a conference room. I try to avoid using email and even the telephone for certain types of messages that I don’t want in recorded electronic form. The use of IP phones makes it easy for a corporation to record every phone call made on the company phone and there are some things said that shouldn’t make it out to certain groups of people (customers, vendors, etc).</p>
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<p>Beware the reply all function! Do people that were blind carbon copied get included in those? My office has sent warnings about reply all and some people literally hit ‘reply all’ to that msg and say ‘take me off this list’.</p>