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Texting is asynchronous. If I have a question for you I can send it when I think about it and you can respond when you have time. If I call you, it's basicall
by wolrah 5y ago
Texting is asynchronous. If I have a question for you I can send it when I think about it and you can respond when you have time.
If I call you, it's basically me saying "What I want is more important than what you're doing right now". Sometimes I may still want to do that, but certainly not always.
I find it really annoying when someone insists on having a long back and forth conversation over text that could be handled in two minutes with a call, but there are a lot of things that don't justify calling someone.
There's also the documentation factor. Being able to reference previous conversations is desirable in some cases.
- toast0 5y agoTexting is also interruptable. If something happens around me, I can look around and then go back and catch the train of thought. If I'm on a call or listening to a voice message and there's a loud noise, I've lost the sentance. Sure, I can ask the other party to repeat, or repeat the message (or even worse, try to get it to go back just enough), but if there's a lot of interruptions, I may never get the information.