I'm crushed because I wrote a post this morning and thought it posted but it didn't!

I'm going to limit myself to listing technologically-aided channels of communication because there are innumerable methods of communicating in meatspace (I've kissed someone in the last day, put my hand on someone's back as I passed behind them, shouted, winked, etc. and all communicate in different ways I'd argue). This weekend I've: texted; messaged on Tinder, Facebook, Hubski; AirBnb messaging while managing Papa's AirBnb; sent food orders to the cooks upstairs in the kitchen using the food ordering computer system; and emailed Papa while he was in Kazakhstan for a day.

Each method has its constraints. I think it's interesting that most email clients let you mark messages as unread so as to indicate to yourself that an item requires further action, yet text messaging software generally doesn't. That's a conscious design choice. Phone calls are great for coordinating certain plan-making, but sometimes a text message is sufficient.