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A typical text
Person 1: "What time is the meeting?"
Person 2: "Noon"
Person 1: "OK...cool"

Phone call involving same parties
Person 1: [calling] several seconds passing
Person 2: [after several seconds....maybe] "What's up, dude?" (because he knows who it is)
Person 1: "Nothing much, man. Hey, what time is the meeting?"
Person 2: "What meeting? Oh yeah, the impromptu meeting about us wasting time all the time?"
Person 1: "Yeah, THAT meeting."
Person 2: "12 noon."
Person 1: "Noon? Great."
[awkward silence due to nothing else needing to be said]
Person 2: "Uhhhh, is that it?"
Person 1: [after thinking about it for a second] "Yeah, I guess."
[a bit more awkward silence]
Person 2: "Alrighty then."
Person 1: "Thanks!"
Person 2: "Yeah...no problem."
Person 1: "Later."
Person 2: "Ok, later."

By calling there's possibly a minute or two of completely unnecessary phone tagging when the message has already been delivered OR WORSE, a conversation might actually pick up when all that was needed was the time of the meeting.

Texting rules. It eliminates even the possibly of useless conversation. It's even better when it eliminates this possibility with someone you don't want to talk to, especially if that person's a chatterbox.]]>Jul 21st 2008 9:46AMhttp://www.switched.com/2008/07/18/city-revokes-employee-texting-plans/http://www.switched.com/2008/07/18/city-revokes-employee-texting-plans/Jul 21st 2008 9:57AMhttp://www.switched.com/2008/07/18/city-revokes-employee-texting-plans/http://www.switched.com/2008/07/18/city-revokes-employee-texting-plans/
I also agree that texting while driving is extremely dangerous. My daughters know not to expect a response from me if they text me while I'm driving somewhere, and that if they are ever caught texting while driving (once they become drivers) that I will own their car keys for a long time.]]>Jul 21st 2008 10:01AMhttp://www.switched.com/2008/07/18/city-revokes-employee-texting-plans/http://www.switched.com/2008/07/18/city-revokes-employee-texting-plans/Jul 21st 2008 10:32AMhttp://www.switched.com/2008/07/18/city-revokes-employee-texting-plans/http://www.switched.com/2008/07/18/city-revokes-employee-texting-plans/Jul 21st 2008 10:28AMhttp://www.switched.com/2008/07/18/city-revokes-employee-texting-plans/http://www.switched.com/2008/07/18/city-revokes-employee-texting-plans/Jul 21st 2008 10:34AM