Anybody else NOT text???

[cybrkitn]

I very rarely text from my phone. If I need to text DH I go to Verizon's web site and do it there and even then I hardly ever do it.

 

[mill4023]

I vastly prefer talking on the phone to texting. I can have the same conversation in 30 seconds that would take 5 minutes of back and forth texting.

However, I do prefer texts over voicemail. It's much quicker for me to read a text on my phone than it is to call my voicemail, put in my access code, wait for it to tell me how many new messages I have, etc, etc.

So I do occasionally text if I know the person isn't available right then, like sometimes I'll text my wife when she's at work because I know she won't answer her phone. And texting on a blackberry with full keyboard isn't too bad. I cannot stand to text on my regular cellphone with just the numeric keypad. That takes me forever.

 

[mrsmom]

I don't text and i don't have it on my phone or my 15 and 17 years olds phones, and they are fine with it..
Kim

 

[LisaR]

No texting here either. I'd much rather call and chat.

This is exactly why I LOVE texting. To me, the phone is meant for chatting. It is meant for having conversations. I don't have conversations with texting. I send a text to DH because I know he is busy at work and can't have a long conversation. If I call, he will stop what he is doing and chat. If I send a quick text to let him know I will be late or to stop and pick up some lettuce, he can reply with a quick "K" and be done with it. I love chatting with friends but texting serves an entirely different purpose for me.

I also do not chat on my cell phone. My cell is for a quick text or true emergency only. I do not want anyone calling me while I am at Target or a play. My friends and relatives have been warned not to call my cell unless they are dying. I can't stand listening to people's conversations at the grocery store.

DH and I went to a play last night. There were four girls in front of us maybe 19 to 22 y/o. They sent text messages during the ENTIRE play. I will never understand that.

 

[Planogirl]

My DH will just let the phone ring if he's busy and I can leave a message. My phone is turned off all day so I check my messages when I leave work.

I will not text. I type on a keyboard all day and don't want to do it on a phone.

 

[Feralpeg]

I don't text. DD does, but she knows that to call me if she wants to talk to me.

 

[ratherbeatdisney]

I feel exactly the same way! Besides, I can call and leave someone a message a lot quicker than I can type it out in a text.

if i need to tell my fiance, "make sure you get gas in the car" or something simple like that, i can text that MUCH faster than letting it ring a few times, hoping she picks up, then talking for a bit and telling her. i can text that out in probably 15 seconds. I dont get people who dont text. who has that much time?? i can have some one text me their address if im on the way to thier house, my fiance regularly texts me a grocery list, that is MUCH more convientent than calling her and writing it down and all of that. I guess if i was Old and it took me 15 minutes to figure how to text i wouldnt do it. but most people i know can whip out a text in seconds so its MUCH faster than trying to call someone. but to each their own i suppose....

 

[georgina]

I have an 18yodd in college. Texting is imperative.

This is why I text also - 2 teenagers who communicate that way. DD can send a text when she arrives safely at a destination, or needs to be picked up somewhere. It is much easier to them than calling. It looks like most (not all!) of the posters who say they don't text don't have teenagers to communicate with on a regular basis.

 

[DarthKTrava]

I don't send any texts. Don't have anyone that I'd text so I don't bother.

 

[ratherbeatdisney]

maybe some of the non texters dont realize that we still use the phone also. i still call my fiance and my friends and speak to them also. i dont have huge drawn out conversations via Text. texting to me is about sending a quick simple message that i can do even faster then having to call the person. texting isnt a hassle, its a convenience. also when working my fiance cant talk on her cell phone at work, but i can shoot her a text and she can glance at it and get a quick message. she cant be on the phone talking to me from 8am until 5pm, but i can send her a message and say "i love you" or "dinner will be done around 8pm tonight" and she can see that quickly, without having to talk to me or check her voicemail, things that would both get her into trouble while working.

 

[Kitty 34]

DH and I don't text but our sons do all the time just not to us.

 

[Debi]

No texting here either. If I have something to say to someone, I'm going to call him/her, not text.

 

[MIGrandma]

We don't have a text plan for our cell phones, but if we do text anyone it's 15 cents per text. About the only time I text is when we're up north at our property. To actually talk on the cell phone you need to be right by the "living room" window of the camper, and even then they often drop. Or you can go outside, and stand in the clearing, and be perfectly still....but even then they often drop.

So, it's just easier to send a text if we need to tell someone something. They go through when calls seem to often drop.

 

[LisaR]

maybe some of the non texters dont realize that we still use the phone also. i still call my fiance and my friends and speak to them also. i dont have huge drawn out conversations via Text. texting to me is about sending a quick simple message that i can do even faster then having to call the person. texting isnt a hassle, its a convenience. also when working my fiance cant talk on her cell phone at work, but i can shoot her a text and she can glance at it and get a quick message. she cant be on the phone talking to me from 8am until 5pm, but i can send her a message and say "i love you" or "dinner will be done around 8pm tonight" and she can see that quickly, without having to talk to me or check her voicemail, things that would both get her into trouble while working.

Another thing, and this certainly doesn't apply to everyone, but texting is far cheaper for us than talking on our cell phones. We have four phones that cost us $600 a year and that gives the oldest teen unlimited texting and the rest of us 250 to 1000 texts per month each. When we had Verizon, we only had three phones, the cheapest plan available with the least amount of minutes, 250 text messages on one phone, no texting on the other two. Our bill was over $1100 a year.

 

[The Mystery Machine]

This is why I text also - 2 teenagers who communicate that way. DD can send a text when she arrives safely at a destination, or needs to be picked up somewhere. It is much easier to them than calling. It looks like most (not all!) of the posters who say they don't text don't have teenagers to communicate with on a regular basis.

Or like last night. She was sick. I did talk to her btw....however after the pep talk I texted her and then got her motivated that way.

Nothing like getting a text from your teen in their dorm that their fever is 101.

She is better today...fyi, at least from her text today. Or is she? I need to text her.

 

[travelbug]

So far, texting hasn't been a luxury I'm willing to pay for.

 

[Robinrs]

I rarely do and my 16yo son never does either. I think his friends think he's an alien!

 

[LoraJ]

Another thing, and this certainly doesn't apply to everyone, but texting is far cheaper for us than talking on our cell phones. We have four phones that cost us $600 a year and that gives the oldest teen unlimited texting and the rest of us 250 to 1000 texts per month each. When we had Verizon, we only had three phones, the cheapest plan available with the least amount of minutes, 250 text messages on one phone, no texting on the other two. Our bill was over $1100 a year.

Email is even cheaper.

 

[LisaR]

Email is even cheaper.

When my daughter is at the place she volunteers, like she was last night, and they have a security breech and she needs to be picked up immediately instead of two hours later when I planned, email wouldn't work unless her phone had a data package. Even then, I would have needed to be sitting at my computer anticipating an email on the slim chance there is an emergency. Not very practical.

 

[MichelleVW]

No texting here either. If I have something to say to someone, I'm going to call him/her, not text.

I don't want my family calling me at work unless it's an emergency, but if there is something they need to tell me during my work hours they just text me and I get the text as soon as I get off work. Makes life much easier for the little things, like "please stop at Walmart and bring home soda!"