About 12 years ago, my wife was complaining to her group of Bible study women, that she never heard from grandkids, grown kids and relatives across the nation/world.
Every woman in that 12 woman group advised her to get a smart phone and start texting her relatives/friends and bury her old flip phone. That every young person texted and usually got back to your texts in a short time.
Several of that group recommended Tracfone for economy and good phone prices. Her old flip phone and mine were Tracfones.
So it was a simple thing to do. Buy a new Tracfone/smartphone for each of us. She spent a few days entering cell #’s or home #’s. I had less than a dozen #’s to enter.
She cautiously got into the texting waters.
She texted our family people first and her church friends and a few longtime friends.
Everyone she texted, texted her back quickly.
One interesting one was an adult son, who is like an electronic hermit. He texted her back in minutes. Turns out that he prefers texting as the first and often only step in business and personal communication.
A few weeks later using texting, she set up a Holiday dinner with who was bringing what in less than a half hour. That process usually took several days. She was sold on texting at that time. She uses email with a few relatives/friends and me.
After about a month a smartphone addict relative convinced my wife to go to facebook. Most of her friends/relatives advised her not to use FB. In less than a week, she dropped out of FB.
She might spend an hour each morning to read and reply to her messages/emails. Then, she checks her text/emails during the lunch hour and after dinner.
Yes! I’m a “texty”...prefer texting to anything...and has been good for comms with younger family members ... but for longer stuff I do send emails, ie articles about BLM etc...
But I hate it when everyone depends on texting. And i get message from everyone all at once with disparate understanding of the matter from all parties. Then I gotta sort out the truth and tell everybody...and make sure they read the message AND understand it. Real pain