# Poll: Do You Text? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 12, 2016, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-do-you-text/759698 "2016-07-12T00:38:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Aspidistra](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspidistra/32/3894_2.png) [@Aspidistra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspidistra)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2016, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-do-you-text/759698/61 "2016-07-13T01:48:12Z")
Every text message I send is a phone call I don’t have to make _bliss_ Texting is the introvert’s friend ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2016, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-do-you-text/759698/62 "2016-07-13T02:02:35Z")
> [@DrForrester](#): > > I have a cell phone, which is to say that my wife bought a cell phone for me, that I don’t use. It stays in the glove box of my car, where it can’t cause any trouble. People ask for my cell phone number. If I give it out, people - for whatever reason - believe that I will answer it. Now, I just deny owning it. It’s simpler. > > I have never twittered, texted, tweeted, facebooked, my spaced, or memed - at least, not so far as I am aware. > > I harbor the technology no specific ill will. I just don’t need it for anything. Similarly, I don’t own a bathysphere. I don’t hate them. But, I don’t know what I would do with the thing if I found one parked in the backyard one afternoon. What??? You DON’T have a bathysphere!!! Get with the times, grandpa! How do you then explore the vastness of the ocean depths that is all the rage these days…(I think there are some uber-rare pokemon down there) ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2016, 11:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-do-you-text/759698/63 "2016-07-13T11:27:25Z")
> [@Quimby](#): > > I’m guessing the people who never text are not single. You can’t date without tons of texting these days. Well that’s a depressing thought. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2016, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-do-you-text/759698/64 "2016-07-13T13:28:16Z")
I text three or four times a week. About as often as I talk on the phone. I email a little more than that it seems. ---
**Author:** ![somepumpkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7feea3/32.png) [@somepumpkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/somepumpkin)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2016, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-do-you-text/759698/65 "2016-07-13T13:58:48Z")
> [@Aspidistra](#): > > Every text message I send is a phone call I don’t have to make > _bliss_ > Texting is the introvert’s friend > [@Lowdown](#): > > Yes, frequently. I don’t want to talk to you on the phone. > \ > [@Ruby](#): > > I’m an “old fart” and would gladly text over talking on the phone any day. > [@kayaker](#): > > My answer as well. My call to text ratio is likely 1 : 100, with calls made only when there’s no other option. These sum up my feelings about the text… Love it! I don’t wanna talk on the phone and I try to text or email as much as I can. As \*\*kayaker \*\*mentioned (that i didn’t quote), I can review my text conversations to confirm details. Otherwise i would have had to get a pen and write the info on a piece of paper that would probably end-up getting lost. 🙂 And somebody mentioned dating above and that’s what got me started texting in the first place. I kept calling this girl, she never called back. When I queried her about it, she let me know that she doesn’t check VMs and rarely calls. “Text me”, she said. I did and I’ve been a convert ever since. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2016, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-do-you-text/759698/66 "2016-07-13T14:04:47Z")
… Thus again proving that if you want to get people to adapt a new technology, show them how they can use it to facilitate orgasms. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2016, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-do-you-text/759698/67 "2016-07-13T14:27:35Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > Nope. I’m one of the oddballs that doesn’t carry a cell phone. +1 (I’m 62!) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-do-you-text/759698.md?page=3)