I see everyone's point. It forces people either to learn how to be great writers, or else accept poor writing as a common denominator. It takes some talent to project feelings through writing, yet it is a very Victoria concept. Reading and writing has made a comeback! Get out the quill pen, just kidding. As we know, people are not raising the bar in writing skills!
Anyway, as for myself, I find it important to reflect. I have a touch of ASD and I always found to be taken advantage of in situations of communication where I wasn't given time to reflect on all the verbal cues. Therefore texting is a lifesaver for me.
I only see a problem where people are too lazy to write, they would rather just "say it". and also it's dangerous to walk and text.
I don't think the article was a spin on anything. It was just an opportunity for us to pause and discuss how we communicate.
Anyway, I love your point about taking the time to write a text correctly. What's interesting is that the immediacy of texting sometimes fights against that which would allow someone to be a better communicator.
If I want to exchange info or find out some bit of data, I text. If I really want to know how someone is doing, I call. But I realize that's not normal.
Not sure I understand the religious differences between texting and talking...but yeah, I agree that it's changing how we communicate, and there's a lot of good and bad that comes with that. Maybe HD voice and RCS will bring people back to the phone call, but I doubt it will be a mass change.
As usual, this is a spin on how bad texting is. And I agree, as I had to deal with a couple of misunderstandings thanks to what the article described (lack of voice tones), other types of expressions well, won't work on a telephone call either. Note that for some reason the research went from voice calls slowing down, to the importance of face-to-face.
Now, once you and your interlocutor have overcome the issue with certain expresions (sarcasm, irony, jokes, etc). The text message tends to be very good as it doesn't require immediate response (it's not as intrusive) and you can very well take your time to properly phrase it. If you take the time to phrase your messages, they can become very polite and powerful to convey information that otherwise on a phone call may not sound as well.
On the other hand, none of them replace the other. There are certain times for face to face meetings, others that require full attention, and others with lower priority that can as well use a text message. And given that teenagers normally don't have extremely high priority issues, I'd agree that it makes sense in teenagers to see the low priority interrupt being used the most.
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