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CMV: Waking up at night from a text is your own fault. It's your phone, stop getting pissed at others because you left your sleep up to random chance

EDIT: I think there's occasional exceptions where people may need the *text* sound on at night but that's got to be a small minority. I think that if it's somebody who has stated to you they don't want texts at night, then of course it's gonna be your fault sending them one, but the vast majority of the time this happens the person getting the text hasn't made that clear upfront, and then gets upset, which is the problem. I should point out that the DO NOT DISTURB feature on Android (iPhone too) solves this problem, making even less of an excuse for people to get pissed lol

*FINAL EDIT*: *Straight up I realized a lot from this post. First of all, it's really obvious there are 2 camps on this subject: one is older people with kids, responsibilities or jobs who prefer to let people reach them at night via text for 'pressing' matters, who grew up with rotary phones where the phone could easily wake you at night. The other is people like me, 20-30 year olds who are probably single, where literally virtually everyone we know is also like us, and anybody who complains about waking from texts is deemed a turbo-idiot because ALL of us stay up late and have very wack sleep schedules. The cut and dry is: if you're the sort of person who often texts with people casually late at night, past like 12am, you're likely to be on the side of 'mute your fucking cell dumbass'. If you're over like 35 and have a family you're probably of the opposite opinion. It's pretty clear that's all that's going on here. So my original post, I concede a lot of what I was saying to a number of comments to be honest. I'll leave you with this argument...when you cross the road, do you look both ways? Yes. Even though there are traffic lights, even though people are supposed to stop and not hit you. So why do you look? Because you're taking matters into your own hands to not get hit, because some people are dumb. So there's truth on both sides a bit: if you text someone late it could be considered inappropriate. Conversely, if waking up because of this happens to you a lot (regularly) like I see in some of the comments, take matters into your own hands somehow and alter your phone settings for some contacts, instead of willfully getting annoyed at the world repeatedly. /discussion*

It's come to my attention that some people get really pissed when they get texts at night. This is especially stupid when they have friends who are known night owls.

So, they are complaining about waking up because of *their own device*. **That really should be my whole argument basically, but here's more...**

So am I saying it's OK and cool to text people in the middle of the night? Well, think of it this way: In reality you'd be stupid to do it, because of this exact phenomenon. That's why I don't do it, and also cause I don't usually have a reason to do it. But it doesn't change the fact I will defend your right to be able to do it lmao, because honestly, sometimes I just want to text somebody at night so that they can see the fucking text when they get up.

On top of this, isn't it just supremely dumb to have a text sound on at night? Between calls from telemarketers early in the morning, and texts from your drunk or fucked up friends late at night, aren't all arrows really pointing at you failing to turn your sounds off?

I get that people aren't gonna want to fuss with their settings daily, but here's the real confusing bit to me: why the hell do you want an incoming text sound anyway? I have never, ever in my life regretted not knowing that I got a text RIGHT away. I check my phone often enough. I get enough texts anyways, that I get back to people in like an hour or so usually, and often a lot faster. I check my phone when I feel like it, instead of when my phone decides. Having the sound on isn't even good for your mental state anyway, or your fucking sleep apparently. *Use vibrate if anything I guess, that makes a billion times more sense.* What kind of texts are you getting where you're gonna be burned not replying in 1m? Billion dollar business deals? Who do you even know that needs such a super quick response? It's literally just tech addiction.

If **you** wanted my attention really badly for something quickly, would you text me or call me? If you were waiting outside my building to come inside, would you text me or call me? If you had anything important to tell me that was time sensitive, would you text me or call me? If you answered 'call me' to all 3 of those questions, congrats! There is hope for you

It's called a ringer. That's my version of 'ding'. Ringer = holy fuck I need your attention. Text = casual, non life-threatening chat where there's not urgent up-to-the-minute fuck-giving at hand. If there's ever a situation where I'm anticipating some contact I don't want to miss, I tell people to call me. My ringer is always on. (I turn it off when I sleep cause I'm not fuckwitted lol, cause I have friends that are known night owls and so am I sometimes).
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>they should have a setting where you can tell the phone when you usually sleep, so that your ringer and sounds are all off late at night

Android has "do not disturb" which does this. You can also set is so you can get calls and text from certain contacts too in case of emergency.