In either situation, you should tap the red exclamation point and choose Send as Text Message. This will send your message as a regular SMS instead of an iMessage. However, ...

E-mails and text messages have pushed the exclamation epidemic to a dire point. There’s now a name for it – the very unpleasant slang “bangorrhea.” ...

The exclamation point encodes feelings — and it doesn’t apologize for doing so. In fact, since its first known appearance, in the 1340s, ! has been praised for capturing the emotion of the ...