https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Mon, 20 Apr 2026 11:12:12 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-send-group-text-messages#post-1998620 Fri, 26 Dec 2014 23:13:29 +0000 Reese 1998620@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yes, but only with a few people. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-send-group-text-messages#post-1998548 Fri, 26 Dec 2014 21:25:35 +0000 Mrs. Lemon-Lime 1998548@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Only once; it was a fiasco. No more :sad: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-send-group-text-messages#post-1998344 Fri, 26 Dec 2014 16:26:35 +0000 Mrs.KMM 1998344@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Never for announcements or mass well wishes. But they can be really handy for coordinating plans with multiple family members or friends. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-send-group-text-messages#post-1998044 Fri, 26 Dec 2014 08:44:56 +0000 bpcmarj 1998044@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My sisters and I use them a lot and sometimes add our parents, but I never ever send a mass group text. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-send-group-text-messages#post-1998011 Fri, 26 Dec 2014 07:11:23 +0000 mrs. bird 1998011@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I would like to add a reason not to use group msgs- someone just called me, BEFORE 7am, because they got my number yesterday from a group 'merry Christmas' text. I don't even know who it was! But he just woke me up on the first morning in a month that I've been able to sleep past 530 because he had my number after someone shared it yesterday on a group msg. I'm so grumpy right now. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-send-group-text-messages#post-1996674 Tue, 23 Dec 2014 22:04:57 +0000 sunny 1996674@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I've been on a group text that has a MILLION people on it and I can't get off of it, and each time someone sends a message it costs me 50 cents because I don't have a text plan! Agh! I think its up to about $10 now. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-send-group-text-messages#post-1996517 Tue, 23 Dec 2014 19:57:42 +0000 erinpye 1996517@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>If you hate group texts, just turn them off or use the DND feature. I have a few groups going continually with my besties and some family. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-send-group-text-messages#post-1996496 Tue, 23 Dec 2014 19:50:15 +0000 lovehoneybee 1996496@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Sometimes, if we're making plans. Usually with our family, but occasionally with my co-worker friends. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-send-group-text-messages#post-1996469 Tue, 23 Dec 2014 19:36:20 +0000 Mrs.Pinecone316 1996469@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My best friends and I group text a lot but I agree with the annoyance of when it is a very large number of people, who mostly you don't know. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-send-group-text-messages#post-1996468 Tue, 23 Dec 2014 19:36:20 +0000 Lindsay05 1996468@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yep. Me and my two best gf's all had our first baby within 5 weeks of each other so we can bitch and complain how things are going quite often! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-send-group-text-messages#post-1996456 Tue, 23 Dec 2014 19:32:40 +0000 Anya 1996456@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I only use it for small groups like 3-4 people for making group plans and such but I have one friend who I guess has it turned off because her replies will only go to the original sender and it drives me nuts! I get how annoying it must be to be in on a mass group text, but when you're trying to coordinate with a few people and one person won't reply to the group it makes the conversation so disjointed. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-send-group-text-messages#post-1996095 Tue, 23 Dec 2014 14:32:54 +0000 birdofafeather 1996095@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@reverie: same, within the same social circle, but not with randoms! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-send-group-text-messages#post-1996094 Tue, 23 Dec 2014 14:32:53 +0000 twodoghouse 1996094@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My mom, sister and I group text all day long! Yesterday my sister sent a text to both my parents, my younger siblings and I and we started group texting like usual. My dad finally had to tell us to start a new text thread because he couldn't get any work done. Oops! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-send-group-text-messages#post-1996065 Tue, 23 Dec 2014 14:11:57 +0000 reverie 1996065@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>In the dark ages before I had my Iphone I was sooooo confused by this feature b/c you'd receive everything as an individual text sometimes from numbers you don't recognize. The one time I randomly got a text that said "had a great time love you!" from a number I didn't know and was SO CONFUSED. It wound up being my friends father in law replying to a rather old group text. </p> <p>Anyway, I use them within the same social circle, not something like what you described! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-send-group-text-messages#post-1996057 Tue, 23 Dec 2014 14:04:19 +0000 littlebug 1996057@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>With Android (or maybe it's just a Samsung thing) you can choose to send group messages as a true group message (so all replies are replies to all) or as individual messages (so all replies just come back to me). I pick and choose how I want to send group messages, but typically I send them out individually. I cannot stand group replies, especially when a bunch of the responses are from people I don't even know! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-send-group-text-messages#post-1996036 Tue, 23 Dec 2014 13:49:37 +0000 littlebittyhouse 1996036@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>yup! i have an ongoing group text with two of my best girlfriends. we are usually telling eachother the same things so it works for us! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-send-group-text-messages#post-1995843 Tue, 23 Dec 2014 12:02:40 +0000 LuLu Mom 1995843@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Depends on the circumstance, i usually send a group text to people who are in the same "group" so my BFF have a group text, my mom/sister, ect. As for when we have the baby i will turn it off. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-send-group-text-messages#post-1995697 Tue, 23 Dec 2014 11:05:07 +0000 simplyfelicity 1995697@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>No. </p> [attach=4953/14/nh1m0j.420x294.e-never-been-held-hostage-but-ive-been-on-a-group-text-feb05.png] https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-send-group-text-messages#post-1995691 Tue, 23 Dec 2014 11:02:52 +0000 mrsjyw 1995691@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I do not. Hate group texts. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-send-group-text-messages#post-1995687 Tue, 23 Dec 2014 10:59:55 +0000 Hoots 1995687@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My MIL is a huge offender of group text etiquette. She group texts both her friends and family in one text and I end up getting texts for the next few days from people I don't know. I don't have iOS8 (I've been told not to upgrade because my phone is old) so I can't hide it either. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-send-group-text-messages#post-1995682 Tue, 23 Dec 2014 10:58:27 +0000 JessKas 1995682@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Only when the conversation involves all members, like for making group plans. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-send-group-text-messages#post-1995648 Tue, 23 Dec 2014 10:49:10 +0000 psw27 1995648@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Only in super limited circumstances... My FIL is the worst about it though... I love that the iPhone lets you leave now!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-send-group-text-messages#post-1995634 Tue, 23 Dec 2014 10:40:55 +0000 BSB 1995634@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yup, but if I do it, I do it with people I know and know each other. Like I have a group siblings text. </p> <p>I have been on group texts where I get random texts from an unknown person. I do wish people would copy and paste their message to send 'group' messages to individual person. I just think that it doesn't bother them or they just don't realize that everyone in the group text will get everyone's response. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-send-group-text-messages#post-1995621 Tue, 23 Dec 2014 10:33:00 +0000 jessibear 1995621@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I have an ongoing group text with my 3 closest girlfriends. It's a nice way to feel involved in the small parts of each other's lives even though we don't see each other regularly. Plus it's good for laughs/distraction on slow work days! </p> <p>I also group text from time to time with my brother/SIL or my parents. But never just a big group of people like you described. I agree, that gets annoying. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-send-group-text-messages#post-1995600 Tue, 23 Dec 2014 10:23:14 +0000 MrsRcCar 1995600@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We use group chat for small groupings. Never for announcing new babies tho. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-send-group-text-messages#post-1995598 Tue, 23 Dec 2014 10:22:46 +0000 nana87 1995598@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Only for making plans or between family, like texting both my parents a picture or something </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-send-group-text-messages#post-1995587 Tue, 23 Dec 2014 10:18:18 +0000 alohaorchid 1995587@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Usually just for making plans. I don't think I have ever used a group text for a conversation. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-send-group-text-messages#post-1995583 Tue, 23 Dec 2014 10:17:03 +0000 Orchid 1995583@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I don't. I really don't like the mass, "Merry Christmas" or "Happy New Years" messages. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-send-group-text-messages#post-1995580 Tue, 23 Dec 2014 10:16:02 +0000 prettylizy 1995580@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We have a family group chat for my parents/sister/hubs and I. It's handy for sharing info, but a 75 person random msg would drive me bonkers </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-send-group-text-messages#post-1995573 Tue, 23 Dec 2014 10:13:29 +0000 anonysquire 1995573@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We just all have an app called groupme. So I guess it's like a group messenger chat room? I hate the group txts because it doesn't send every message to those without iphones so not everyone gets the messages and it turns into a mess. </p>