Worried About Coming Across Arsey in Texts? This Website Analyses Your Tone

​Text messages and Whatsapps are a minefield, when you think about it. Especially when it comes to having arguments over them instead of face-to-face. But because it's a digital world we live in, these things happen, and they often end up making situations worse.

Because if you dare to use a full stop at the end of a message (God forbid with no kisses), your message's recipient could well take that as you being arsey AF. Or if you're in a rush and only have time to send a quick reply, the recipient might think you're in a huff and proceed to ignore you for three days. It rarely ends well.

So thank christ for this new discovery: the website Tone Analyzer, which assesses your messages before you send them to make sure you're giving off no shitty vibes.

What a great idea, right?

Well, that depends on how well it functions. Obviously the site has got its psychological research from somewhere to enable the system to detect whether there's any anger, disgust, fear, joy and sadness in your words. So you'd think it'd be pretty reliable.

Because I don't do anything by halves, I decided to put the system to the test. What's a message that ​could ​be construed as a bit grumpy, I thought to myself? So this is what I put:

I thought this one had the potential to have a touch of the 'anger' section, because it sounds pretty disinterested tbh. But nope, it seems like my brain is way off.

​Sad? ​I mean, that doesn't seem sad to me. But then what do I know? I'm no psychologist.

The good thing about the site is that it can also analyse emails, customer service chats (no idea why) and corporate announcements, for all those times you might get paranoid your CEO's business update was ​totally ​arsey and it was definitely aimed at you.

So yeah, this is great and all that, but we might just stick to using our brains.

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