mini-moan: sync failed.

One of the most annoying parts of modern communication is that it is often asynchronous and this can cause problems because you have no idea if the other party has received a message let alone read it. Text messages are one of the biggest causes of confusion in communication as unlike a phone call which guarantees your communication will arrive they have a tendency to vanish into the electronic ether.

How many times have you sent a text that has disappeared? Perhaps the message you sent  decided to go on a little trip to Narnia and returns 20 years later without ageing a day.
This has certainly happened to me, I've known text messages arrive 3 days after they were sent so sending messages containing relative time information is useless and even worse confusing.

Let's use the real world scenario that prompted this post.
Somebody sends you a message that reads 'can come around 11' which then arrives at 11:24. What am I meant to do with that? Assume the message's flight was cancelled and it had to catch a later connection? Or maybe it was meant to read 11pm/23:00? Or the least likely scenario is they mean 11 tomorrow? Of course nobody would assume the last option was the intended message would they ;)

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