I don't wanna be this guy, so I end up just, not texting people because I'm waiting for the Golden Conversation Starter lol.
Well I mean, even a simple "hey, what's up" is infinity better than "hi" or "wyd" because you're actually typing words, and i react to it entirely differently than I would a hi, cus "hi" convos are usually:
Hi>
<hey what's up
>wyd
<just getting ready to go home, wbu?
>nothing
<oh ok, how has your day been?
>good
(This is when they get bored and decide to wait until tomorrow to text you hi again and have the exact same conversation)
Vs saying "hey, what's up?/ anything new with you?"etc actually opens the floor to having a real conversation instead of a series of 1 word replies even if you don't have anything in particular to talk about.
I still don't tend to text people first if I don't have something specific to say, but I'm a lot more interested in small talk when the other person can at least type more than one word at once.