Are you a texter or a talker?

"We choose to go to the Moon... not because it is easy, but because it is hard." - JFK

Yes texts are easier, but less fulfilling I think because they're such an information-depleted form of communication. I agree with @NubbinsUp on the stats. It's much more likely that you will be misunderstood or misinterpreted with texts. For me a phone call is just much more rewarding as social contact.

 

If just a quick yes or no or somewhere to catch up text. Getting shit sorted out definitely talk.

 

I've always hated talking on the phone. Texting was a godsend lol.

 

I think you likely get out of texting what you put it. I don't think it has to be information-depleted--and sometimes we do easy things because they are more efficient and practical than doing the hard things, saving you more time and resources to do hard things when it matters

 

i'm slightly more competent at phone calls, texts are difficult because it's hard to convey my thoughts properly into that form of writing, i'm usually best at explaining things in person and people get what I am trying to say with that. I can't deal with unexpected calls though, just not prepared for them a lot of the time.

 

Talk

 

I am adept at writing clearly and concisely. I prefer texts, but, for some reason, no one wants to talk to me.

 

Depends. Some people have bad text etiquette. Like my mother. I hate texting with people like her. I'd rather call

 

I wish I'd had text when my mom was alive. Though she'd probably just try to call me.

I should have called her more.

 

Oh Neon

I'm so sorry.

 

It's an incomplete data set tho. We didn't get the stats on communication percent for video chat, very relevant at this time, nor communication percent for video chat with dog ears.

 

I went through a short texting phase, and I count myself lucky because I'm not exactly young. When I was in my twenties (around December of 2003) I got a cell phone. First one. And nearly immediately I had a texting "relationship". So we texted back & forth. It was cute, and then it died. I texted with several other people after during what I would say was probably the true advent of texting during the early-middle 2000s. Then in 2005 I stopped being successful romantically. I was putting on weight and that doesn't work really well in either college or a rave or club. lol. I have to laugh because although it drove me nuts throughout the 2000s and the early 2010s, I don't mind being single.

And I know how to text. It's a little different now because there's a touch screen keyboard on the phone. When I first did it, you pressed the number keys several times to get to a correct letter... I don't know if that makes any sense now. It used to be that there were three of four letters on a number key. If you wanted QR or S you had to press three times for S because it was the third letter... Anyway, that's no longer the case. Now there's a QWERTY keyboard.

 

what do you consider bad text etiquette?

 

Not being able to have a conversation. Some people act like texting can wait. And it can... unless it's the middle of a conversation. Like if you and I were having a discussion face to face and I suddenly waited 2 hours to respond to the last thing you said, wouldn't that be rude? But it is considered acceptable when texting. If you can't finish the conversation ok, cool, but text hey I'm driving or about to go into a movie or work or class or any of those things you could do before mid March.

 

oh yeah, that is annoying.

for me, i think the worst text etiquette is when people refuse to let a conversation end. you know, everything has been said that needs to be said, and you're giving one word conversation ending responses, but they just keep texting again and again.

actually, on second thought, the worst text etiquette is group texts. it is pretty much guaranteed that in every group text, there will be at least 2 people who want to continue a one on one conversation for the rest of eternity, but refuse to just text each other and instead text the entire group every time. and for some reason, those same people think that it's ok to have this text conversation at 5am or some similarly awful time.

 

Oh yeah... group texts are the worst

 

more of a watcher and a multiple choicer. nobody to call so all i did with a phone when i had one was google stalite maps, and train vids on youtube.
so i decided that wasn't worth an extra forty bux a month i could instead spend on healthier groceries so i got rid of the phone entirely.
even when i had one, most of the time i just left it at home. and i always left the ringer on vibrate instead.

i'll do my texting on a full size keyboard on a full size real computer. i really, well you know how i am, i'd just rather watch the scenery and maybe catch a glimps of the occasional non-human, then be distracted from doing to by mundane conversation.

 

I'm a sexter and a stalker