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Texts are wonderful. Always discreet. With phone calls everyone around can hear your business. Also, texts can be responded to whenever. I can text someone who's busy and just wait for their response when they're free. With phones you have to hope they're not busy. Yea you can leave a voicemail but that gets cumbersome after a while if you do it frequently.
At this point in my life, a text is typically general conversation or something I need to mention but isn't important. A phone call is reserved for my grandparents (since they don't text) and any sort of emergency or something where I have to type out too many words to explain something (or I'll send an email on my computer instead).
We have a three story home, it is far easier to text everybody than walking up the stairs to tell them dinner is ready.
Anyway, it is much easier to get a hold of me by text than by phone. If I'm busy, I'm not answer the phone, if you don't leave a message I'm not calling back. Text me, then I know what you need or what we need to talk about.
I have a cell phone, but have never text even once.
Why do people text as opposed to actually talking on their cell?
Talking is so much faster.
Can some of you tell me why you text instead of talking?
Bob.
Simple enough. I want to tell somebody something, or ask them something, but don't really need an immediate response. And it does not require an extensive conversation.
They can read the message, and get back to me when they have time.
I am amazed how many times we are in a restaurant and so many couples around us are texting. What happened to having a good conversation? I can understand texting a sentence or two to let someone be aware of something, but it seems face to face communicating is becoming a lost way of life. Sad.
I live in Central time zone and one of my sons is one the West coast. I can send him a text anytime and when it is convenient for him to read and answer he will. Not as simple when calling and trying to mesh 'work' time, 'awake' time and 'free' time
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Basically this. I realize my friends and family members have different schedules and texting allows them to reply whenever. Another bonus, when I get bad colds, I lose my voice.
Because it's a less intrusive way to ask a quick question. Or a dandy way to ask if it's a good time for you to call if you need to have a longer discussion.
Actually, it is way faster to text because you can get the information over to the person in less than ten or fifteen seconds without having to have an entire conversation with them.
They can also be more useful because you can leave lists or directions and then the lists/directions will already be written down.
Oh, by the way, I don't type my texts. Your phone usually has a voice recognition that will allow you just to speak your texts. And my car will even read my texts to me.
What everyone said - it's just easier and it's discreet. I type my texts unless I'm actually driving a car, though, because Siri is lousy at dictation. If she worked for me, she's be on a performance improvement plan.
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