Keeping it Together: Don't send that long text yet. Maybe.

Maybe you've spotted it in a coffee shop. Or across a classroom. A wall of blue text: Someone typing out a near novel-length text message that left you wondering and worried about the person on the other end of it.

My name is David Oliver, and I'm one of Paste BN's wellness reporters. Am I guilty of this? Mind your business.

Is that conversation you spotted the beginning of a breakup? Are roommates confronting each other about whose turn it is to take out the trash, only to have it spill out into a litany of other quibbles? Is a child unleashing unfounded frustrations out on a parent?

Such texts aren't all that uncommon, especially as younger generations grow up with the ability to communicate any way they want literally at their fingertips. But is texting a great way to actually have meaningful conversations?

Mostly no, but sometimes yes when you consider the boundaries of that specific relationship.

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