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Texting is for teens ;-)

Posted by tom | Apr 22, 2010

Teens, Cell Phones and Texting: Text Messaging Becomes Centerpiece Communication (Amanda Lenhart, Senior Research Specialist, Pew Internet & American Life Project, 4/20/2010). Has texting grown as a form of communication for you? It definately has for me. A great way to answer questions and handle tasks when I don't have WiFi or a good way to take/give a cell phone call.

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    Andy and I remain text free. I've sent a few responses because my sister insists on communicating that way but I find it way too time consuming. I'd rather stick with an actual phone call or sending an email. Maybe it'll be different my the kids start being able to spell :-)

    Posted by Jodi, Apr 22 2010, 21:47

    I don't use texting at all, other than receiving them from my computers, and a couple customers and friends that use them occasionally.

    We were going to use them in Switzerland, because they were cheaper than calls, but after we typed back and forth a couple times, I realized that they are only cheaper if you don't have to respond more than once. After that, a one minute phone conversation can carry *way* more information than text messages. Particularly if you are willing to forgo the "necessary" greetings and closings on a phone conversation, which I think are kind of silly for the most part anyway, and definitely when the other party knows you are going to call, and are trying to meet somewhere, or something like that.

    I have a phone with a keyboard now, so it is more reasonable that I would use it, but I view text messages as high priority things - since the person gets notified immediately, as opposed to an email, which might arrive slower, or probably less of a notification, since the user probably gets lots of emails, so the phone doesn't beep every time they get an email. I suppose it is right to call a phone call higher priority than a text message, but it somehow seems less - I guess because the volume of information is so much higher with a telephone call, and also, if you are interrupting some other activity, a phone conversation can be judged by outsiders about how important it is, where a text message can't...

    My "high priority" theory might also have evolved from my first use of text messages, which is the computer notifying me that it is about to go down, but if I login within a couple minutes, I can probably prevent downtime...

    Posted by Jon Daley, Apr 29 2010, 14:09
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