> But still, why do people prefer sending chat texts instead of calling or video calling? Surely not because of tech It turns out that people who are highly fl

> But still, why do people prefer sending chat texts instead of calling or video calling? Surely not because of tech It turns out that people who are highly fluent in a language with a compact alphabet like English prefer sending text chats. My Chinese colleagues and friends routinely send many more voice chat messages than text because it is much more efficient than typing mandarin. Also in India, I've observed that people fluent in vernacular but not in written English primarily send voice chat messages - again because the vernacular text input is very inefficient So interestingly does my daughter who can type English text easily but as she always grew up in a world her parents and her friends parents had smartphones, she finds it a lot more comfortable to send voice chat messages. The other benefit of chat is asynchronocity. You're not forcing the other party to do a context switch and signalling that they can get to ot.