You disagree with it because you hear “only young people text” and you are old. LOTS of old people text, and MANY more do not. How many texts do you send in a day.. 10, 20, 50? A person between 12 and 20 -something can easily send 50 texts in an hour, and typically send hundreds per day.
These people may not even be aware of the existence of stamps, email has existed forever, and so has the internet.
You may text, but not nearly to the extent people do today, especially younger people. That is the generational aspect of this, not that texting is restricted to a certain age group.
I am 57 yo. I have had a droid for two years. many flip phones before that. I never used text until 2 months ago. I made a new friend who texted me instead of calling. at first, I found it annoying. but…
Now I understand the value of texting and I am late convert.
I don’t have a home phone - only my cell so I am never without it. If I am, it’s by choice because I am fed up with being on the phone that day and want peace from it. (like visiting a friend etc.) Course, by now, if I am driving at night without my cell I feel a bit more nervous even if I am only minutes from home.
I don’t do email on my phone. I get business and personal emails into my same account (personal domain name). I don’t want to be interupted every time someone likes one of my youtube videos! I don’t want to hear my phone beep because i got a message of spam in my inbox. I also don’t want to be deleting emails from my phone then have to go delete them from my computer. I like to write LONG emails and surely I would not be doing that on my phone. yikes.
I am a convert to texting. I have always enjoyed IMing etc. and text is the new IM. and sadly, it’s not even new anymore. I am just late to the game.
I have unlimited minutes on my cell and only 250 texts a month. I won’t be texting 100 times a day. I also have friends who do not text so calling is a must. I also might know someones phone number and not their email address.
there are times I don’t check email for days. would hate to find a message I needed to know days before just because I am “expected” to check email several times a day. text is shorter and sweeter sometimes.
a friend was recently sitting with her partner who was dying. she announced to everyone “do not call me. if you want to reach me, text me.” She didn’t want tons of calls where she was talking all the time while her partner was trying to sleep. it was also less draining on her to say short sentences to people instead of having long conversations with everyone who called or just not answering their calls and having to wade thru VM later.
I can tell you why some people text instead of call and it annoys the crap out of me. They can carry on conversations with 3, 4 or more people at the same time, which they can’t do on the phone. It’s cool when it’s just a short exchange of information, a real pita when you are trying to discuss something.
I don’t know about all carriers, but many of them will show a call log of numbers talked to but I don’t know of any that keeps a log of numbers texted. Great for people who want hide who they are talking to.
Texting has its advantages, but I would rather talk.