Has texting made calling rude?

[DwaynieAD]

im busy doing stuff. text me.

you dont like that, dont talk to me.

[nortonrider]

I guess I'm old school. I have never sent or received a text message, my phone is capable but I don't know how nor do I have the desire to learn.

In my opinion, texting is rude.
People ignore people anymore, everyone just spends time mesmerized by the little gizmo in their hand.
If I am interacting with you, having to wait while you are text conversation with someone else is unacceptable in my book. I will abandon you right then and there.
(done it)

Everyone that knows me, knows to call me,.

[i_got_a_mohawk]

There is a difference between texting in general and texting someone else while you are meant talking face to face with someone else.

At my place of work the signal is terrible, phone calls generally cut out. I'm also less likely to ditch what I'm doing to answer a phone call. If someone needs to know something, and it isn't urgent, they can drop me a text. People can pass on information which doesn't require a response, via text.

Texting is nothing more than portable e-mailing. It has it's place.

[i_got_a_mohawk]

Originally Posted by C.Linton

The only thing about texting that bothers me is that it seems to be creating a generation of people who can neither spell nor construct a sentence properly.

Language is fluid, most people do not write formally in the same manner they write text messages.

I don't think literacy rates are taking a hit because people text.

[nortonrider]

It has it's place - sure. I just don't need it.

mohawk:
from your posts, I can tell that you are an advocate for texting. Please tell me (and be honest), do you text while driving ?????

[i_got_a_mohawk]

Hell no. Mobile doesn't get touched at all while on the move.

I wouldn't say I'm an advocate per-say. Just that it has it's place and that as a technology, it isn't inherently rude.

I'll also add that by that point, calling isn't rude either. They both have their place and should be used as deemed appropriate by the user and what they believe to be the most appropriate manner in which to contact the person on the other end.

[Eric Perry]

I only *talk* on the phone when it's business related or I absolutely have to. My mom never joined the texting revolution, so with her I'm forced to talk.

I hate talking on the phone. I generally send/receive over 3k texts a month.

[MatticusMania]

I dont find calls rude, but I do prefer texting. I dont care much for petty conversation, so if you want to know something a text should be fine. Call if you want, if Im available then I'll answer. I prefer to have my conversations face to face, and my phone, be it call or text, is a means to set up face to face conversation.

[jmattbassplaya]

Originally Posted by i_got_a_mohawk

There is a difference between texting in general and texting someone else while you are meant talking face to face with someone else.

At my place of work the signal is terrible, phone calls generally cut out. I'm also less likely to ditch what I'm doing to answer a phone call. If someone needs to know something, and it isn't urgent, they can drop me a text. People can pass on information which doesn't require a response, via text.

Texting is nothing more than portable e-mailing. It has it's place.

Well said.

Just curious, but why do some of you guys finding texting to be rude? What's more rude about it than an email or hand-written letter?

[DwaynieAD]

Originally Posted by jmattbassplaya

Well said.

Just curious, but why do some of you guys finding texting to be rude? What's more rude about it than an email or hand-written letter?

they need something to complain about that's why.

[Passinwind]

Originally Posted by jmattbassplaya

Well said.

Just curious, but why do some of you guys finding texting to be rude? What's more rude about it than an email or hand-written letter?

It's an added expense with no upside, in my case. I leave my cell phone off except on road trips and only even give the number to close friends. Can you tell I'm a geezer?

[Richland123]

I have had the opposite happen lately whereas instead of calling me on my home phone or wireless phone, which is much easier these day to reach me or leave a voicemail, they prefer to send me an email or text. If they send an email, I am not always in front of a computer, nor do I have a phone with Internet, and they wonder why I don't get respond immediately. I therefore ask them why didn't they just call me? What I find is that people prefer to email or text so they don't have spend time talking.

[Bloodhammer]

Originally Posted by MJ5150

Would watching TV count as something? That's usually what I'm doing when someone calls me and I text back. I'd rather not be distracted from my TV show to talk about nothing. Send a text and get to the point already. We can skip all the......

Hey.
Hi.
How's it going?
Good. You?
Good here too.
Cool.
Whatcha doing?
Talking on the phone.
Cool.
Yeah, not really, it sucks. What do you want?

-Mike

I'm glad I'm not the only one! I hate talking on the phone. Even with a cell, I still have that "handcuffed to the wall" feeling when I'm on the phone.

And don't ask me what I'm doing. It's a dumb question since you just interrupted me in the middle of whatever it is.

[MatticusMania]

Originally Posted by Bloodhammer

I'm glad I'm not the only one! I hate talking on the phone. Even with a cell, I still have that "handcuffed to the wall" feeling when I'm on the phone.

For some reason talking on the phone puts me in a "pace around the room" mode, that I never get into any other time.
I hate being in that mode.

[Bloodhammer]

Yeah, me too. I guess in the case of cell phones, the "wall" is my hand against my head. Maybe pacing is my subconscious way of trying to escape it!

One day I was on the phone with a tech support guy and he asked me if I was pacing around. I laughed and said I was and asked if he could hear it that clearly. Apparently I was stomping all over the place and didn't realize it until he mentioned it!

[yodedude2]

perhaps it's the idea of being summoned at someone else's will. like a genie in a bottle, soaking in the tub, relaxing quietly, practicing your bass when BRRRRING! out of the bottle we must go...

(we all practice bass while soaking in the tub, right?)

[Thrust Meatnozl]

I pace when I'm on the phone too. Sometimes I'll go so far as to leave the building & wander down the street.

Back on topic, I kinda find phone calls a little invasive.

[tplyons]

What I find rude is people that expect text messages to be a priority form of communication.

If I'm sending a text, I want you to read it at your leisure, not reply right away and have a conversation.

IMO, the communication priority goes: face-to-face, telephone, email, text message, Twitter/Facebook messages.

[smcfarland1337]

I don't really like talking on the phone at all. It's one of my social oddities and always has been, but I'd it's important or a female more than friend, I'll take the call.

Though when the drummer calls, it typically goes to voicemail then I text him. :P

[sloasdaylight]

I actually prefer it when some one calls me instead of texting me for most things. Now, that's not to say that I don't text, or that I have a problem with texting, but I like the person to person communication involved with an actual phone call.