I used to do it Fran, but found out certain people are addicted and will send them to you all day every day. I had to stop the insanity....

I hear you I dread the yapper
the one that you have work hard to get them to open up then you cant get them to shut the ___ up!!!!!

so depending on whom I am dealing w/I chose the option that will have a start and an end...

A text here and there is great. I get jokes ect on mine gives me a quick laugh or a friendly hello just letting me know they were thinking of me that is fine.

I just don't like to carry on a full conversation on one myself. My kids are great at it they can send a message in a heartbeat. Shhshshs it takes me forever to text something out guess that is why I just don't care for them. lol

I just spent 4 hours texting a guy last night. To me it is easier and cheaper then talking on my cell.

usually its the only way I can get a word in....

now symbelmyne that sounds hard to believe you seem so outspoken

I hate text messaging!!!

I have it disabled on my phone.


But...believe it or not...Im a LAZY typer. Id rather talk for 5 mins than spend 20 mins typing it out

I guess some feel comfy with it

I talk to a couple of my friends

By texting ... i haven't heard their

Voices yet but we text when we can

*shrug*

Depends on who the person is...


Some people will try to make a 1 minute conversation last 5 hours.... I put the phone down and walk away and wished I texted them a few short statements.

Others text all day every day as if I have nothing better to do than text back and forth..
that person I'll call to ask if they have someone else they'd like to bother for the moment.

I don't care to talk on the phone sometimes because I dislike forced conversation ..... but talking on the phone prevents people from texting me forwarded messages and jokes. I FORBID people to forward things by text or email...LOL.

All of that simply to restate my first sentence...
it depends on who the person is that I'm corresponding with.

Um, I DON'T text when I am in a video conversation with a certain little person.

Also, I text when I am at work or my friends are at work. Co-workers don't need to know our business.

ALSO, it's a little more personal. I can say things in a text to a certain person that I can not say over a phone, especially since people seem to always catch me at a bad time, like when I am at a laundromat or the grocery store. (You are a witness to this....)

Now, while I agree with my father and some members here, with texts, you can not hear the emotion behind the text. There have been times where my crude humor has been taken as an insult.

I have had a few fights with my dad about this.

And sometimes I just want to send a quick thinking of you, but not have a whole full blown conversation.

And, seeing as most my family and friends live not only in other states, but COUNTRIES as me, it is easier to text than to call when they are at work or at dinner or whatever.

I usually send a text to ask if it is okay to call within a few minutes of texting.

Busted!!