My phome has a voice text option..... Hold the button and records voice to text, glance at it and push send after confirming autocorrect hasn’t insulted anyone.
Other good thing about text....if your out of voice range, text will still get a message out if yer in the boonIes .....worked well during Katrina when cell towers and power was down. No voice calls worked yet text’s were picked up at extreme ranges.
Text is just another tool in the toolbox.
Stay safe !
You don’t have to be out in the boonies. I work in a manufacturing plant and my office, I’m guessing because of all the heavy machinery just outside my office, the metal roof, etc., acts sort of like a Faraday Cage – I can’t get a cell phone signal, receive or send calls or get a wi-fi signal on my phone but texts seem to work just fine.
If someone tries to call me on my cell phone while I am at work, often I don’t even hear it ring and it goes straight to VM and I sometimes don’t get the alert that I have a VM until hours later.
So I tell folks, especially my niece and nephew who have little kids and I am their emergency backup in case one of their kids needs picked up from school, to text me rather than call me. To text me if they really need to get a hold of me right away (or alternately call my office phone number in an emergency).
At my company we also recently started using a text service to alert employees of Weather Bulletin days, delayed openings, cancelled shifts, etc. The service does allow people to have the message sent to their personal emails or send an automated voice mail to their phone, but most, nearly all have opted for the text messages, and it works really well. We also in my department use group text messages to let each other know if we are running late or not coming into work. While I may also follow up with call my boss or my direct report, it’s nice just to do one simple short text to the entire group like – “stuck in big traffic jam running late”.
I don’t particularly like texting, my fat fingers don’t seem to work well on my Galaxy phone and I haven’t mastered the voice recognition thing, but it is great for short messages like “running late b there in 10” or “at store – need me to pick up anything?
My niece and nephew and their spouses (all in their 30’s) seem to rely on texting a lot when sometimes a phone call would serve better.
Not long ago my niece was sending me texts about her father, my brother having been rushed to the hospital, after about the 6th text message, I finally texted her back – “please just call me”.