New Beam Messenger App Let's The Person You're Texting Read Your Message As You Type
SOURCE – If you are someone who types a furious text message, only to reconsider and edit it before hitting ‘send,’ you may be in trouble. The Beam Messenger app shows everything another person is typing in a text message as they type it. This means that if your friend has the app, they could see the keys you press, including corrections and everything you choose not to send. The Californian firm behind the free Android app claim it is ‘a first of its kind true real-time communications app’ that more closely mimics the way people to chat in person. For example, it lets people interject or comment in real-time, without having to wait for the other person to hit send. And, if the recipient already knows a story that the sender is typing, they can tell them so they don’t waste time finishing the text.
Texting is awesome because it takes all of the human interaction out of your human interactions; no looking the person in the face, no pretending to pay attention throughout the conversation, and, best of all, carefully figuring out what you want to say before the other person sees it. If you’re texting your buddies that you talk to straight stream of consciousness bullshitting all the time anyways it doesn’t matter if they see what you type, but that’s not what’s at stake here.
What we’re talking about is blasting out texts to some girl you’re trying to hook up with and her being able to read each letter as it pops into your mind and seeps out of your fingers: the attempted double entendre you finish writing and realize isn’t clever, the slightly too aggressive emoji you originally choose that was meant to lighten the mood after bringing up anal (e.g.: “So how about that butt sex? :D” rather than “So how about that butt sex? ;)”), the slightly off-color joke that you’re not sure if you should hit send on because you aren’t 100% on if she’s Italian or Mexican (if you assume I’m making fun of Mexicans and not Italians that means you’re the racist one)…that’s all just out there in the open.
And forget about the inevitable post-fight texts when you’re in a relationship: No more sending that elegant final version of your apology that so delicately toes the line between saying you’re sorry and refusing to admit that you actually did anything wrong; not when she already saw rough drafts one through seven where you admit guilt and blame her for everything.
How about three months after that disaster of a breakup when you type up a drunk 4 a.m. text saying how much you miss them and all the good times that you had before wisely realizing you should never send it because you sound like a sniveling pussy? Whoops! She just read the whole thing and is now either: A) laughing in your face for being a little bitch or B) saying she feels the same way at which point you get back together for 2 weeks before you both remember that you hate each other.
Pre-, in-, or post-relationship this app will fuck your shit up. Official Rating: Poopy-flavored Lollipop.