I find texting better for me (and I’m 68). With a phone call you have to spend time saying hello, how are you, etc. and after your conversation you have to go through a closing ritual similar to the opening of the phone call.
With texting you get right to the meat of the call ... no opening, no closing, just the message. Works for me.
matter of fact, at your age ... you should already BE there.
Adopt a 1 syllable intro like yo.
everyone will get to know it’s you.
it’ll be funny.
I am in agreement. Much easier to to communicate with children about grand children activities. Right now we are following three of them play ice hockey. 11 yo girl, 9 and 7 yo boys.
“I find texting better for me (and I’m 68). With a phone call you have to spend time saying hello, how are you, etc. and after your conversation you have to go through a closing ritual similar to the opening of the phone call.
With texting you get right to the meat of the call ... no opening, no closing, just the message. Works for me.”
Couldn’t agree with you more. I do a lot of my business interactions by text, whenever possible.
The problem is that people with psychological issues can use it to torment you.
Of course, you can always block them
One nice thing about texting is you can keep a conversation with far away friends going for a year, just adding to it when it’s convenient.
I like the immediacy of it for really important things, but I love the emotion and context of voice calls as well. I still LOVE phone calls (with friends and fsmily).