Cell phones have changed the way we live our lives. Gone are the days when you had to be at home to contact someone via a landline. Now we are in touch with each other 24/7. Whilst a world without cell phones might be hard to imagine in 2017, it wasn’t until the late ’90s that they became widely available. I’m sure we can all remember the trusty Nokia 3310 that most of us owned in the early ’00s – not only was it indestructible, but it had the legendary Snake game built in too!
Anyone born after the late ’80s can barely fathom a world without cell phones. We grew up with them and slowly watched handsets become increasingly advanced. However, our parents’ generation grew up without cell phones, and, for one reason or another, it’s moms who’ve struggled the most when it comes to getting to grips with technology. Despite having a phone for years, a text from my own mom is a rarity, and, whenever she plucks up the courage to text, it’s always hilarious.
From texting me purely to tell me off (”Stop being mean to Donald Trump!”) to writing phrases like ”Love mom and dad” even though it’s just her texting, it’s safe to say that ”mom texts” are pretty distinctive. However, my mom’s nowhere near as entertaining as these moms…
So, without further ado, we’ve compiled a list of 13 mom’s best texting fails. Enjoy!
1. This mom just doesn’t get texting…
2. Why moms shouldn’t use SMS language…
3. Moms are in a world of their own whilst grocery shopping…
4. It’s certainly not just texting that moms don’t understand…
Mom texting is nothing short of a phenomenon! It doesn’t matter how long moms have had phones for, the majority of them simply can’t get their heads around the concept. Here’s more proof…
I once borrowed my mom’s cell phone to call someone when mine ran out of credit and noticed that she’s got a habit of overusing punctuation in her messages to her friends, especially when something has upset her. Instead of sending one long message, she insists on sending 30 short texts. Mom texting’s a mystery.
5. Despite being clueless, some moms try to educate themselves…
6. This mom actually succeeded in using SMS language…
7. Now this just doesn’t make any sense…
8. This mom finally got texting and gloriously used it to her advantage…
Can you imagine the sort of conversations single moms have with potential dates on Tinder? One thing’s for sure, I’d pay good money to see the best mom Tinder fails. There’s no doubt that they’d be brutally honest with all of their matches, leaving a lot of single men extremely shaken…
Once moms have got the hang of texting, they can be savages, but still manage to send distinctly ”mom texts”. So it’s best to air on the side of caution when messaging them…
9. The shade…
10. Moms have absolutely no filter when texting…
11. There really should be texting classes for clueless moms…
12. All in all, they love nothing more than winding their kids up…
We receive countless text messages every day, however, the majority of them blur into one giant mass of digital gloop in our minds. But not mom texts. They’re a different type of message altogether. Mom texts are memorable and worth of taking screenshots of to enjoy for months – if not years – to come!
