From misspellings straight out of elementary school to wish-I-could-unsee-that peen pics, awful texts are par for the course these days. But a new study suggests that you shouldn’t give your thumbs a break just yet: Turns out people are more likely to reveal sensitive intel via text as opposed to phone.

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Researchers explain the surprising results this way: there’s something about a text message that feels anonymous. Also, there’s no pressure to sound good to another live human being (at least psychologically).

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The results especially apply when you’re baking organic vegan cookies, reading 50 Shades, and cry-watching So You Think You Can Dance all at once. Apparently, multitasking — aka I’m-super-distracted-tasking — is society’s secret truth serum. So if you need to gather some data on the guy you just started dating, like say his number, try texting him in the middle of a Game of Thrones marathon. Warning: results not guaranteed.

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Yelena Shuster judges your texts for grammatical accuracy. 

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