Inspired by this thread, what sorts of things do you think are wholly inappropriate/just plain wrong to communicate by text or email?
I’d say that telling someone an immediate family member has died by text or email has gotta be way up there.
What else?
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“You’re fired.”
“I want a divorce.”
“I’m pregnant.”
“Will you marry me?”
“Some1 haz a laser pointer aimed at your forehead. Duck!”
My wife proposed over Google Chat.
We printed the chat log in our wedding program.
Said wife would like to clarify that we were actually sitting next to each other at the time.
Sadly, I had to notify my son by email that his father had passed away suddenly and he needed to come home. He was travelling with his phone off, and there was no way to reach him - I felt fairly certain he’d check his email at some point - I was right. He doesn’t turn off his phone now when out of the country.
My mom was on the receiving end of this one, from my ex-stepdad. It went to her work account.
Classy.
Nice!
“i luv u.” Not inappropriate unless it’s the first time it’s expressed.
Oh man, the stories I could tell … ok, just one.
Back when AIM was huge, I was browsing through my buddies’ profiles before going out on a Friday night. I looked at my brother’s profile, and it said RIP Mom. I IMed him asking why it said that. He said she had just died. Apparently updating his profile was a higher priority than telling his sister.
I think I would have asked him to call me ASAP as you had something urgent that you had to talk to him about. I couldn’t have put the news of the death in the e-mail. Just couldn’t.
“Your parents are dead.”
In a text, it would be “ur fired”.
“You have cancer.”
“I’ve been cheating on you.”
ur fired lol.
test bck, i hz aids 
What a shame too, mass e-mail could make this task so much easier and faster.
My sister’s best friend did this to her husband while sitting in the room next to him.
I think that bad news needs to come as in person as possible but good news can come impersonally.