Text messages... friends or foes?

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Text messages... friends or enemys? Nowadays there isn't a single person who doesn't use text messages. I don't know if I am exaggerating, but surely there isn't a single teenager that doesn't use them, or as used them at least once. Now the question here is, are text messages getting too much of an addiction? This is becoming a fact as the time passes. These text messages are becoming more of an necessity than just an alternative way of speaking. I know people that are more comfortable talking while messaging than when talking personally. And this is a very bad thing. Because if you talk too much with text messages you get accustomed to that way and when you confront someone personally you simply don't have a topic or you get too nervous. Either you said everything you had to say by messages and have nothing to talk about or you struggle to talk about something and simply remain quiet. You become an antisocial, a snob or whatever you call it. Because you don't develop social skills in the correct way, wich is personally. You just know how to type in a keyboard or talk with a monitor, and because of that you are not accostumed to talk with a "real face" and than you either don't talk, talk with your head down without looking to the person or simply you just say "Hi" and then you walk away because you had nothing to say. I'm saying this like if it is an obbligation to have a extended conversation with somebody, but it isn't. You can simply have an "Hi.. bye" relation with that person or you just not in the mood for talking. And also because there aren't things happening all the time to really have an topic to talk about. Also people who talk too much are just annoying. I respect people either way. Just don't annoy me too much. Me, personally, I prefer people who aren't too quiet and aren't too loud. But more too the quiet side. 'Cause myself, I ain't a great talker. I only talk more either when I'm in a "talking" day (my mood gets really different, I don't shut up and get quite annoying, i'm surely you had one of these too) or if I'm with a group of friends that I feel comfortable to speak. And also with my family. This "phenomenom" doesn't just occur with text messaging. It happens also with instant messaging programs (messenger), skype (voice communication) and social networks (facebook). But I won't talk about these in this discussion because this isn't about them. But this also brings advantages. You can use messaging to set up meetings in terms of work matters, to meet up with somebody, to talk with someone who is really far away or to simply talk with your friends or girlfriend/boyfriend. There are a lot of options really. And it's a much more practical way to talk. With a simple push of a button, you can arrange something or talk with someone instantly. There is a reason why this is called by some people "instant messaging". Just don't exagerate too much or you become a snob, as I mentioned. With this said, my question to you guys is: Are you a "messaging addicted"? If you are do you think that this is having an impact on your social skills? Post your answers below. My discussions are just an opinion. If you don't agree with them, comment below, that's what commentarys are made for. Your commentarys are all aprecciated as long as they stick to the topic and aren't flaming/spamming. Very much aprecciated.