My Daughter’s Classmate Thought I Run My Messages Through ChatGPT
Because no real person talks like I do, it seems
I’ve been on Medium for four years now. My first payout on the Partner Program was in May 2020.
I joined here because I had the horrendous habit of typing mile-long WhatsApp messages. One hapless recipient of one of my messages suggested I send a two-line link to an entire story instead. I didn’t understand what a two-line link meant back then, but boy, was I about to find out.
During the Pandemic, I heard about Medium. I joined and started writing – for the money, the responses, and the highlighting of sentences I wrote – and never looked back at WhatsApp.
That said, I still reply to messages on WhatsApp with my customary care and attention to (lots of) detail.
My daughter, new to college in 2021, is no stranger to my long WhatsApp messages.
One of her friends saw a message of mine typed up after the death of his grandfather.
Here’s what I said:
Most of the things people say when someone dies are inappropriate.
“I know how you feel” is wrong because nobody else lost this particular relative in this particular way at this specific point in time.
