Remember the ice bucket challenge? Celebrities chucking freezing water over friends? Stunned, rictus-mouthed gasps in the name of a good cause? Something like this:
Now there’s a new kid in town – the ‘text door neighbour’. It’s simple: you text the mobile number that’s just one digit from your own (‘text door neighbour’ – geddit?). Then you wait to see what happens. Sure, you’ve just sent your number to someone who could turn out to be a crazy. But hey, New Year and all that.
Now, the text door neighbour trend is being described as ‘the latest way to make new friends”; a “craze that’s sweeping the internet” and “a handy way of meeting new people”.
So we gave it a shot.
This is how it went down:
How Shayni felt: “I can see they’ve read it and they’re not replying and it’s giving me anxiety.
“I’m sure they’ll still get back to me. They’re probably having a crazy day at work. Or their phone died. Or they’re, you know, very very elderly and don’t know how to reply but desperately want to.
“It’s definitely not that I freaked them out.”
“But his name is Greg, so I’m sure it’s fine. I mean, Greg is a pretty innocuous name, right. RIGHT?”
Amy: “I’ve been ignored.” (sorry Amy – but can you blame them. WHAT IS THAT PICTURE???).
Annie: “I never liked them anyway.”
It could have been worse. We could have got replies like these:
Verdict: It’s no ice bucket challenge. But if it spread a bit of New Year feel goods, why not?
Top Comments
In the first one, it's pretty obvious that the guy just misread "text door neighbour" as "next door neighbour", and by chance has a neighbour that moved in recently with kids.