Do you notice you text more than you talk?

United States
August 12, 2010 9:14pm CST
My phone rings with text messages all day long. it is a wonder people let me sleep at night. I notice I text all day into the night. I wonder if I can lower my phone bill. The minutes I must be wasting every month. I would love to see how your fingers move on your phone. My sister text people with her one pointer finger. it is so funny you have to see it. I am getting atext let me go......
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18 responses
@voldrox (7191)
• India
13 Aug 10
If you are talking about a texting freak then i can say i am one. But the difference is that i text only one person all day, everyday! And the rest all most all are forwarded text messages which i forward to a list of my friends everyday. I have crossed the limit of sending more than 500 text messages in a day. On an average i send around 200 text each day, receive the same. Yes, i text all day too.
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• United States
13 Aug 10
My mom hates when I text. I find it so easy for I am not really a phone person so to be able to send a quick text to someone is wonderful.
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@voldrox (7191)
• India
13 Aug 10
I can see why. When i am with my friends and i text chat with someone else, they find it annoying and i don't blame them. I am trying to reduce the time i give to someone else sending them text messages.
• United Arab Emirates
13 Aug 10
I dont get many calls or messages. My phone is always busy making calls. I have been working in the Middle east for the past 6 months and the messages i receive is only from the service provider. I get a few calls from my boss and clients. But most of the time its outgoing calls.
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• United States
13 Aug 10
I also use text more than talking. So with my plan I pay for unlimited texting and then I have the lowest plan with roll over minutes. It saves me money because at one point I didn't have unlimited texting and it was hurting my wallet. Now that I have this plan, I wouldn't do it any other way.
• United States
13 Aug 10
I did the same thing with my plan when I realized how much I was texting.
• United States
13 Aug 10
yes I definitely don't blame you for that. I did the same thing : )
@Renhard (3471)
• Jamaica
13 Aug 10
I also text more than how much i talk but i regret doing it as with texting you cant really hear someone voice, and if i was hearing my girlfriend voice in the past i wouldnt have gotten so angry that i said certain tings. But because of texting i type and never really meant and if she could have heard my voice while i say such a thing she would have known that i never meant it. So i say texting messed up my life.
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@Segerer (53)
• Argentina
13 Aug 10
testing more than you talk isnt a bad thing at all, just dont forget to speak with people every now and then hahaha
@MrDollars (454)
• Australia
19 Aug 10
I do not really use my phone at all but I love texting and I am pretty quick at it. But for your case....look around to see if you can lower your bills but also, you can just tell your friends to calm it down a bit and hopefully you can too, to try and save money. All the best! $-MrDollars-$
@gunagohan (3414)
• India
13 Aug 10
Texting is affordable and considered to be lower than making a call.. i text more, the service providers allows more free messages by paying an initial amount in the beginning of the month and it's valid for throughout the month. Even making a call is cheaper now days.. Speaking between two same providers is very cheap.. I text more ... I just like texting...
@Cutie18f (9546)
• Philippines
13 Aug 10
No, I don't. I only text when there is something very important that I need to tell someone who is not around.
@juryse (752)
• Philippines
13 Aug 10
I talk more than I text. =) I don't really like to text. I prefer to call or talk to the person.
• Philippines
13 Aug 10
I am not an addict person to any mobile services excluding mobile internet. I just load my cellphone once I need to text or call. I don't find any pleasure having a textmate and callmate. I wish you can understand me. But when i am texting, I used only 1 hand.
@myiesha (96)
• Singapore
13 Aug 10
Texting or messaging is the easiest and cheapest way to communicate. But I'm not so much into text/msg, I prefer a call especially when it's urgent. I only text/msg when I can't get through them.
• United States
13 Aug 10
My teenager does this and I figured it's a new phenomena for this up and coming generation. I'm older and I like to talk to people. At first I didn't get why my teen would constantly text her friends rather than talk to them on the phone. Now that I am texting I kind of get the appeal but still, I'd rather converse and hear someone's voice, especially if it's someone I connect with. My question is how will this affect future generations ability to communicate on an intelligent level. Maybe it doesn't even matter...
@BigTips (304)
• China
13 Aug 10
Yes, with the popularity of mobile phones, it seems that we tend to communication with others with text instead of talking with each other. So, it is a common situation when you see a person is texting with his/her one pointer finger all the time. Of course, if we can spend much time on text messages, we can save some extra money obviously.
• Indonesia
13 Aug 10
I text more than I talk. however, when there's any need to talk, I will choose talking on the phone, because texting wouldn't be efficient and effective to talk the whole things.
@sk66rc (4250)
• United States
13 Aug 10
If it wasn't for the work related messages, I'd actually talk more. Well, they're both work related, most of the times. I go through 3,500 - 4,000 minutes of voice calls a month & 4,000 - 4,500 messages a month. In comparison, 90% - 95% of the messages are to & from work & 60% - 70% of the voice calls are work related. And for the text messages that are personal, if I wasn't at work, it would be less because people I know would be calling me instead of text messaging me. On days I'm off, my friends actually try to call me first before resorting to text messages because they know I'm not too crazy about text messaging.
• United States
13 Aug 10
Yes I have lowered my minute usage as most people text me all day long and naturally I text back. Sometimes it could be a bit annoying as I wonder why they just don't call me when the text is continuously one after the next from the same person. But all in all I rather test anyways. as it is to the point and done.
• United States
13 Aug 10
I text way more often than I talk on my phone. Texting is so much easier because it's right to the point, faster, and easier to do if you're multitasking. Plus, I have this weird thing where I don't like talking on the phone. So texting helps that too.
• Philippines
13 Aug 10
I used to be addicted with texting until I stopped and would only do it if necessary. I realized that I was wasting too much money for unimportant stuff. Besides that, it would really consume a lot of time putting it to to waste.