<p>Touchy subject, obviously. I guess people really are attached to their phones and to the idea that there really are that many vital things to ‘talk’ about. I think it is great you can text in an emergency… but why not call to make sure your child is okay? Communication is about more than a series of words. Even on a phone call you lose aspects of the communicative experience. The people who walk down the street texting, and unaware of the people around them, are behaving in a manner that has been conditioned into them by years of incomplete communication. Texting has been much more prevalent in Asia for years before it became so ‘important’ in the U.S… I have ample experience to make judgement, LasMa, in spite of your proclamation. </p>
<p>There are lots of good reasons to text. Providing information about changes in plans or such things is a good reason to text. Being communicative is more than providing information. The teens who are texting 100 times per day are doing neither, however, they are just wasting time, in fact. Aren’t they?</p>