Toggle Send Read Receipts off. Tap on the Info icon ( it looks like an 'i') in the upper right hand corner. Tap on the conversation for which you would like to turn read receipts on or off. How to turn read receipts off for individual conversations in iMessage for iOS 10: Launch the Messages app on your iPhone or iPad.
Compose your email as you normally would. On your computer, open Gmail. From e-mail to FacebookRequest a read receipt. In many instances, they create a mild, uncomfortable social pressure—just enough to keep you talking a little longer than you might want. From now on, your Outlook will ask for a read receipt for all your outgoing emails.Read receipts are transitioning from a quirky, semi-invasive e-mail option to an always-on feature in messaging services like Facebook, but they aren't always welcome. Then click OK at the bottom.
Therefore, when someone doesn’t respond to your message, it can be a blow to your ego. But that level of comfort seems reserved for close relationships in most other cases, it can create unwanted social pressure.The cases above are real, but it’s safe to say that most messages are written to be responded to. IOS offers to turn read receipts on for you during phone setup, while both Facebook and Snapchat enforce always-on read receipts, creating an awkward vacuum when users can see that their messages have been opened and yet the recipient isn’t responding.The implication of always-on read receipts is that both conversation partners are comfortable with the obligation to respond engendered by a read message. And, as a Facebook representative highlighted to Ars, they can also obviate the need to respond to some messages for instance, if your significant other reminds you to pick up some milk, just opening the message creates a mutual understanding between the two of you that if you don’t get milk, it’s only one person’s fault—and only one person is going to run to the convenience store later.But increasingly, services are turning on read receipts by default or, worse, providing no option for turning them off. For instance, there was a time in the early days of text messages when it was hard to tell if messages had gone through, or in what order they had arrived, or when they might arrive. AdvertisementRead receipts can be great.
Maybe they’re laughing so hard they fell on the floor and not only can’t reach their keyboards but broke a few ribs. Maybe they had an emergency. Maybe they’re playing hard to get. Maybe they were interrupted. AdvertisementAnd then you try to rationalize by imagining scenarios for your conversation partners.
Or if you are that person, you might sign off but continue to browse Facebook, living a lie just to avoid a conversation. The person who takes off is still inevitably on Facebook, their availability indicator green as ever. Maybe you wouldn’t talk to you, either.You might offer a simple “goodbye” or “see you” or “well I have to do X now” as a way to definitively end a conversation online, but that has its own problems.
So long as you keep talking. Because you can’t be the bad guy.
0 kommentar(er)
