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Johnkelts, when did they say you can’t use text messaging? How about email? How about a physical letter you’ve sent then?

To everyone, not asking for ideas of how to avoid communication. The topic is if it’s ok to ask a friend to erase your conversations or if that’s considered rude.

Another tossup are pictures. What if you came out really bad in a picture and are uncomfortable of it existing. Can you ask a friend to delete it or at least crop you out?

Obviously the best way to know is to ask. But again even with close friends these things can be taken as extremely rude or overstepping your boundaries and cause a fight or at least some tension. As if you are telling them what to do with their own property. But is it their own property when the material is yours?

In a way this is probably a known issue since whatsapp unveiled the delete from everyone option within a certain amount of time, and recently have given an option for disappearing messages which disappear from the history within a few days or whatever the settings are. I think people have realized that it’s annoying to have someone keep your messages which were meant for just the moment and not to be analyzed or taken out of context later on.

But then again that’s whatsapp. You have sms history, email, voice messages, voicemail and so on.

I do try not to leave voicemails or think twice before sending a message. But in turn you are just making life more difficult, and besides sometimes someone is only able to text at the moment and you really need to have a conversation about something important and you end up creating a whole history of messages again.

Any thoughts?