The saying "he who has a mouth is wrong" can be adapted to the era of smartphones : "He who has thumbs fails in pairs." We all know stories of people who screwed up when sending a WhatsApp message, responding to an Instagram story or replying to an email. The possibility of deleting messages sent before the receiver reads them on some platforms, such as WhatsApp, Instagram or Telegram, has eased this type of anecdotes, but they continue to be among the most clueless. We have compiled the testimony of several people who failed to send a message.
It is our second chapter of Sale mal , a series of articles in which we gather stories whose protagonists would normally prefer to forget. In the first, we talk about business dinners.
Alejandro, 29 years
I had just argued with my partner at the time, an immense anger about WhatsApp. Shortly after I called a friend to let off steam, tell him what had happened. Instead of giving her all the badge, I sent her the screenshots of the conversation with her. So I could read exactly what had happened and we commented on the phone. But I didn't send the screenshots to him. I sent them to her. He immediately asked me "what are you doing?" I didn't know what to answer.
Nerea, 25 years old
I had a fight for WhatsApp with my girlfriend. I made a screenshot and sent it to a friend to comment, or so I thought. I actually sent it to my girlfriend. I reacted fast. I said to him: "Please, look at this screenshot and reread the derisions you are telling me."
When you get confused about whatsapp group and send it to the family group. pic.twitter.com/l4ZzzikSfF
- Mangel (@mangelrogel) December 28, 2016 Rubén, 24 years old
My girlfriend was traveling. We started talking, the thing got hot and we sent risque photographs. After sending my picture, I heard a cry from my mother. "Rubén !!!" I had sent my picture to her.
Lorena, 25 years old
I don't know how I could do this. It's absurd, but I don't control my thumbs. A friend talked to my ex-boyfriend about a work issue, something very normal and without bad rolls. My friend makes a screenshot of that conversation and sends it to me. He says "look who I'm talking to". Well, I don't know how, but then I go and forward the conversation to him, to my ex-boyfriend. A glimpse of the job conversation he was having with my friend. I thanked him for not answering me, because the ridicule would have been worse.
Cristian, 29 years
I had been talking to a girl on WhatsApp for several days. I liked her a lot, but I didn't see clearly what she felt for me. One night, after a long time talking, he asks me "what do you want with me". At that same moment, just then, WhatsApp is paralyzed to save the backup. A while later, when it was over, she had written me an "ok."
Let's see, WhatsApp dear, if I delete a message because I regretted or was wrong, why does it have to appear to the other person who deleted it ???? That in my neighborhood is called provoke.
- camila skrasek, (@caamiskrasek) April 22, 2018 Diana, 23 years old
He had met several classmates to do a university job. But I didn't feel like going, it was very good weather and my friends were staying for a drink on a terrace just below my house. I wrote in the class WhatsApp group to say that I was feeling bad, that I felt it but we better stay another day. Then I wrote in my friends' group to be asking me for a beer. I was wrong: I had written it in my classmates' group.
Roberto, 30 years old
It had been a while since I had tickets to a festival, but I couldn't go, so I tried to resell them in Thousand Ads. Four or five people wrote to me on WhatsApp, but we didn't agree on the price. In the end I could go to the festival, so it suited me not to have sold them. At this point it must be said that this cell phone was broken, it went crazy and sent messages without control. After all night, I looked at my cell phone and saw that I had sent a photo to my recent contacts, that is, to those people who wanted my tickets and did not know anything. It was a picture of an ugly grain that had come out and that I had sent to my sister, who is a nurse.
Pedro, 36 years old
When I had been living alone for a short time, I wrote to my mother to ask how to cook a salmon steak. It has no mystery, but I wanted to do it right. I was wrong on WhatsApp: I looked for “mom”, but I wrote to another “mom” that I had on the agenda. It was my ex's mother, who couldn't even see me after she cheated on her daughter. I do not answer myself.
Save this video for when someone misses WhatsApp group and put something compromising pic.twitter.com/ryvHBJbnd7
- Ariel Tiferes (@Gauyo) January 25, 2020 Mariángeles, 25 years old
The other day they sent me an Instagram story and, instead of answering the friend who sent it to me, I wrote to the one who had published the story . He said he had little left to get hooked on drugs. I deleted my messages quickly, but I think he read it and went crazy.
Marta, 27 years old
When you have a conversation via email, you can read the previous messages at the bottom of each email. If the conversation is very long, dozens of messages accumulate. A message queue that accounts for the entire conversation.
Well, a coworker asks me for a file. I remembered that I had sent it to another partner, with whom I exchange many emails. So, I simply resent her the mail she had sent him. What I didn't think about is the email queue that carried that email, all the conversation that could be read. And, of course, in that conversation I cracked a lot of that partner. He read everything and also told me in the face. I didn't know where to hide.
Emilio, 51 years old
I have a co-worker who made a huge mistake by sending an email. We are dedicated to installing security systems in buildings. They are very high amount contracts. Well, he sent a client a document that specified how much it cost us to carry out the work, our costs, instead of how much it would cost him. The profit margin suffered a bit.
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