Some choose to text on a wireless phone for fiscal reasons. It used to be that texting cost more than speaking, but these days it’s the other way around (especially with prepaid wireless phones).
Some choose to text because it’s faster. If you receive a text message asking, “Meet up for coffee at noon at D.D.?”, it is quicker to reply with a “yes” than it is to call, wait for the ring and actually say yes.
And obviously there are those who like to text because for whatever reason they fear speaking on the phone. When “hiding” behind text people feel more confident for whatever reason.
The Big Question: If there was a wireless device you could buy that was text-only, had a real miniature QWERTY keypad on it (meaning not a number pad), and cost $15 a month for unlimited domestic and international texting, would you buy it?
There’s a lot of you out there that would say yes to that. Are you one of them? If so, why? Or if not, why?
hmm, probably not. I need far too many tools that my phone does. Plus I would not want to carry another device around. I really don’t text too much.
Now a Twitter device, that could get attention from some people.