I see texts like an email. Send it whenever, and I send them whenever. I have one luddite friend (his words) who I don’t text until his regular hours. I have friends with very different sleep schedules. Some who sleep from 10pm to 6am, and some who sleep from 4am to noon. Can’t be keeping track of everyone’s sleep schedules to figure out when to text.
One my group texts quite frequently has texts after midnight. A lot of times it’s about sports, but can also just be general things going on. I mean this group tends have people who are out a bar until 2am.
Yes, precisely. We don’t call frivolously in the middle of the night, so it’s OK for people to leave their phone ringers on at night, so if there’s an emergency, a phone call at night will get through, so we don’t need texting for emergencies, so it’s OK for people to turn off their texting notification at night.
As are texts.
“Hey Mike, I just saw that there’s a band at Helltown in Export Friday 6-8. Plan on meeting there?
"Who is this?.. I’m not Mike… and it’s 1fucking15 in the morning…
I think people need to explain what they mean by “late night.” I mean it is absolutely crazy to me that people think of 9pm as being “late night” and the cut-off time for texts or calls. That’s just bizarre. That TV time slot is known as “prime time” for a reason. It would never ever even cross my mind to not send a text at 9pm because of some arbitrary cut-off. I get texts every day from my parents and family members up to and past midnight.
To me, 9pm is just “evening” and “late night” begins at 11pm.
I’m watching my show! I bet you talk in movies too… 
Who isn’t on their phone while watching TV these days? 
I think I started that idea. I threw it out rather arbitrarily. However, I’m a bit ashamed to admit, we’re often in bed before 10:00, so a 10:00 p.m. cutoff would be too late in our home. What is this “midnight” thing you mention?
I got a text Tuesday evening at quarter to midnight. We had been texting back and forth to plan a get-together, and that’s when he answered my earlier text, which had been sent some hours before.
I didn’t see the text until after 9 the next morning, as my phone was in another room, and I only have WhatsApp on my phone.
I generall don’t text, email or post on FaceBook at 3 am. Mainly because I don’t want people to know I’m awake at that time.
But I have sent texts before 6 am, also because I was trying to arrange a meeting.
I turn my iPhone off at night. If it’s an emergency they can call my landline.
I distinctly remember an exchange between two college roommates around 1985-8; “So, Dave, what are you going to do tonight?” Normal question, except it was asked at midnight. My point is that different people have different ideas of what’s late at night. I have to get up early for work so I’m usually in bed asleep by 9pm, at least on weeknights.
This is true on my current phone, but at after one update (and maybe for a certain model as well?) putting my phone on silent also silenced my alarm. Definitely made it into work late the day after the update.
Does “Do not disturb” mute phone calls too? If it does, I don’t think you can blame people for not having it on when they go to sleep. Seems like most people don’t have landlines anymore and could leave sound on for emergencies. Depending on the person, setting it up to mute only certain things might be beyond their technical ability.
Personally my phone is on silent so you’re not reaching me until the morning no matter what. I generally don’t send texts to people late unless I know they’re up or that they have their phone on silent.
Not as far as I know. They’ve always been too short for that. And, even if they were, they are now treated as semi-contemporaneous communication. It’s not quite a chat room, but it’s pretty close. The UI for it reflects this. It looks exactly like how modern chat (e.g. on Facebook) tends to look.
Mostly it is scheduling stuff. I don’t normally talk to my wife until after 8 pm on week night between her work schedule, dinner and the kids (we talk but it’s not a conversation) so by the time we catch up on each other’s days it’s after 9. Then I can work out if I can go catch a game with Jim after work or go fishing with Joe. Once I figure out if it’ll workout to do something it’s typically after 10. Rather than wait until I get up in the morning, and get the kids taken care of which is normally after 9 am, I’ll just let them know my availability immeaditly and they can respond on the spot or in the morning.
Fantasy baseball trade proposals, low airfare alerts, dinner invitations for this weekend, a link to an interesting podcast.
Nothing time sensitive
I do not like texting. I want to hear your voice. Your tone of your voice says more. I know when you’re tired, sick, lonely. I hardly ever text unless it is rude to talk on the phone when people are around. I don’t call people late at night either.
A friend I know has always got his face planted in the phone and I wonder why he even goes to visit people?
Threads like this remind me of how old the average Doper is 
This is me. As for sending them, the following applies:
I was informed this by friends in no uncertain terms.
See quote from @SanVito just above.
I keep my phone next to the bed. I live alone and Stuff Happens.