I don't text, nothing wrong with it I just don't do it.

[texanwitch]

I just don't really like to talk on the phone either.

I do get text messages but will not answer them.

If you want to talk to me just call me.

Anyone else not text.

[ohiosmith]

1. Wouldn't know how to!

[texanwitch]

2. I can if I had to but I don't like to text.

Glad to see I am not the only one.

[struggle4progress]

3. I ain't even got me no cellfone

[texanwitch]

4. Wish I didn't need on.

Remember the good old days when you didn't have to hear someone's private conversions.

[MiddleFingerMom]

5. I used to work customer service for Verizon Wireless and I could help you with texting...

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... but I used to tell my callers (honestly), "I bet I haven't sent more than 3 or 4
text messages in my life."
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I ride the bus... and I HATE when people feel the need to "share" their personal
dramas with everyone else via their phone conversations. I blame "reality" TV
shows for allowing people to think that's normal... even acceptable.
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[texanwitch]

6. I was on a bus trip to Austin a few months ago and this guy talked the whole time on his phone.

He talked rather loud and I learned more about his sex life then I really wanted to know.

The bus trip was 3 hours long.

[drm604]

7. Telephones are for talking.

I like hearing a human voice plus I don't want to have to put on my reading glasses to have a conversation.

[Lex]

8. I like to text. It gets to the point.

One has to know the difference between when it should be a call or a text.
Text, quick and to the point.
Call, more time to chat.

[Flaxbee]

9. My nieces do and it's an easy way to chat with them without the "commitment" of a

full conversation. They're both in school; I know what they're up to and I can just say a quick "hi" w/o them feeling like they have to stop everything they're doing.

It's a nice, sort of short-hand way of staying in touch long-distance. But I didn't start texting until about 2 months ago, when I got a phone with an easier-to-use keyboard.

[mrmpa]

10. My 82 year old mother texts...........

it's the only way she can get in touch with 1 son. One grandson was in college in West Virginia, where if she called and left a message, it went into the netherworld. So she would text him & now texts to 2 kids (me and brother) and 7 of 8 grandkids.

Mom lives with me in a 2 bedroom condo. I've been in the living room, she in her bedroom (distance 25 feet) & she's texted me. I text but I'm not a fan of it.

[bluesbassman]

11. Two teenagers still at home. Texting is mandatory.

More often than not they won't answer the phone, but they'll answer a text.

On the upside, when they're out and about and I want to be sure of where they are, I have them take a picture and text it to me.

[Arugula Latte]

12. I'm a late convert to texting.

It conveys information quickly, and a lot of times I just don't want to chit chat.

[Flaxbee]

13. exactly! More and more, I like talking on the phone less and less

I have a dear friend who is a HUGE time sink; she'll get on the phone and settle down for a natter for 3+ hours and sometimes the only way I can get off the phone is to hang up on her (and then blame the cell phone battery); I also have a business colleague who rambles and rambles but he's necessary to talk to so I feel like I endure mindless conversation far more than I want to.

So if my loved ones and friends prefer to text to stay in touch, I'm all for it.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

14. I don't text either, my dear texanwitch...

I never learned how, and recently I found out we don't have that on our cell phones. My husband didn't want it, so there you are. I don't mind at all...

We rarely use our cell phones anyway.

[Archae]

15. I have an el-cheapo cell phone.

And I use it to call people and get calls.

That's all.

I want texts, I get e-mail.

I want a camera, I use my camera.

I want games, I use my game consoles.

I want music, I use my mp3 player.

[RebelOne]

20. I have an el cheapo cell phone also.

I do have a text feature, but I never use it.

[Art_from_Ark]

16. i thnk txtng prmote semi littercy

i get hedake whn i reed txt messgs

[HopeHoops]

17. I had the company completely disable texting for our phones.

We've got an excellent plan as it is, but texting cost 15 or 20 cents (forget now) for a received message even if it was never read. Some of my daughters' friends were sending them texts. I blocked it after the first bill arrived.

[femmocrat]

18. I only text while at work.

I text my husband at his workplace, because neither of us can talk on the phone at work.

I don't like to talk on the phone at all. I can't stand people who are always on their cell phones.

[Pool Hall Ace]

19. I have an old flip phone and no QWERTY keyboard

else I would text more. I don't mind doing it; it's the best way to keep in touch with some of the younger people in my life.

On the other hand, I don't understand this constant need to be *texting*texting*texting*tweeting*tweeting*tweeting* that some people have.

[Populist_Prole]

21. Non texter here. For one thing it's laborious without a proper keyboard

I mean I have to hit a number key anywhere from one to four times to get the desired letter. Christ, it takes me like 10 minutes to type a reply like "I'm just fine, thanks". I've never initiated a text, ever.

I feel other's pain too: I just can not see the reason for the constant need to text text, read read, text text. people are constantly ( and rudely ) interrupting conversations or work tasks with me as they turn round and hunch over to read a text and replay. It's like EVERY time some stupid tone goes off they have read and reply, right now. It's out of control.