AskMe about mixed up text messages

May 15, 2013 10:56 AM

I could have sworn that there was an AskMe not too long ago about sending one text message but having a different one come up on your recipient's phone. Of course, I can't find it. Am I thinking of something I read somewhere else, or does this question exist?
posted by amro to MetaFilter-Related at 10:56 AM (8 comments total)

This one?
posted by heyho at 11:20 AM on May 15, 2013

So yes, not only does that question exist, but compare the title of the AskMe to the title of your MeTa.
posted by heyho at 11:23 AM on May 15, 2013

There was also this one, wherein the title could be read to imply that Prospero may be messing with their cell phone signal.
posted by beryllium at 11:49 AM on May 15, 2013

That's it, heyho! I looked under the "text" tag, I don't know how I missed it. Much thanks.
posted by amro at 11:55 AM on May 15, 2013

Wow that first one is pretty awesome. I'd love to see some screenshots of that.
posted by Potomac Avenue at 12:53 PM on May 15, 2013

That question made me super uncomfortable because as a programmer I can't think of a more nightmarish problem to have to debug.
posted by invitapriore at 3:04 PM on May 15, 2013 [1 favorite]

Wow that first one is pretty awesome. I'd love to see some screenshots of that.

Yeah, exact same thing happened to my husband and I today (hence the search for this question).
posted by amro at 4:28 PM on May 15, 2013

Hey that was my question! I do have screenshots of it but feel kinda weird about posting them. Is there any good that could come of it (like helping an uncomfortable programmer!), or is this just a thing that happens on a freakishly rare occasion? It hasn't happened to me or my husband since that day.
posted by peep at 9:47 PM on May 16, 2013