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Ouch. This hurts on both sides.
I can not see this not being deliberate.
What? Like they would've sent the screenshot to the boy on purpose? That would be insane. First of all, this is the internet and it's probably fake but mistakes like that happen all the time.
Boy is interested in girl, girl knows but isn't interested and doesn't know how to handle the situation and wants to ask a friend for help, accidentally replies to the wrong person.
I think it's kinda weird that you would assume it's deliberate.
If my mom didn’t do this regularly, I might question if this was intentional. But some people are embarrassingly awful when it comes to texting.
I myself do it regularly, especially with contacts who share txt bubble colors.
I haven't had anything that awkward happen but I felt like dying when I ruined the surprise for my best friends birthday party last year by texting the non-secret group chat instead of the secret group chat.
Even I, a younger millennial who grew up almost right in line with the tech as it grew, have made this mistake. It happens.
Honestly, maybe even more frequently when you’re adept because everything is so automatic. All it takes is a moment of brain fart to think about the person you’re texting ABOUT as opposed to the person you’re meaning to text, and you click their name accidentally. Or if they’re the two most recent conversations. Fat finger could make it very easy to click the wrong name.
Fully believable for anyone. Whether or not a screenshot of a text interchange is ever real on the internet is always up for debate, though.
I have sent a text to my dad that was meant for my brother and my dad has sent me a couple that were for someone else.
So this person and your mom is so adept at image editing in a mobile environment, file management but not selecting who to text
Taking a screenshot and cropping it is absolutely trivial on iOS, as long as you know the screenshot button combo.
And when you take the screenshot and crop it, there's a share button at the top you can use to send it. The share screen shows buttons for your most recent text contacts, so it's really easy to accidentally tap the wrong person this way.
But fuck me right
Not just think its deliberate but basically say its impossible that its not.
Yeah I figured I'd give them the benefit of the doubt and assume it was just a figure of speech.
I've managed to fat finger my keyboard a few times and hit print screen and without realising it and sending people screenshots of our conversation before. It's only happened a couple of times, but it happened with the same person....
Had a boss so this to me once. Thought he was texting another supervisor how he found my spending time working on a repair project annoying (which was kind of hilarious from my perspective as we all had spent the last three days doing mind numbing busywork and I jumped on doing anything that would look like actual work while giving me a break from appearing to be useful ) and how he hated me being around.
He basically melted from embarrassment even when I was telling him that I was fine. His text response looked practically identical.