For me, texting requires a lot more "exclusion of outside world" attention than a telephone call. I have to have both hands and eyes committed to dealing with a text vs. a phone call, plus a fair bit of concentration to get my thoughts focused long enough to deal with such a small and slow UI. Even for a very brief exchange of thought. A call requires one hand, for as long as it takes to answer it, and then not again until I disconnect the call. I find "thought ==> voice ==> other party" is way faster than "thought ==> hands ==> painstaking typing + correcting ==> no guarantee of timely transmission to other party".
As much as I hate the phone, getting texted while away from a computer usually takes much more time than a call, and can put me in a lot more danger. Lack of attention to surroundings has a lot of potential negatives that most people don't even understand yet.
(And yeah, I've seen mobile phone talkers be just as oblivious to the outside world as mobile phone texters, but I'm betting they don't have to be.)
IMO, cell phones are God's Gift To Predators of all types. But I admit that I look at the world slightly differently than most.
(Sorry about the edit; LJ took a return and turned into a submit comment.)
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As much as I hate the phone, getting texted while away from a computer usually takes much more time than a call, and can put me in a lot more danger. Lack of attention to surroundings has a lot of potential negatives that most people don't even understand yet.
(And yeah, I've seen mobile phone talkers be just as oblivious to the outside world as mobile phone texters, but I'm betting they don't have to be.)
IMO, cell phones are God's Gift To Predators of all types. But I admit that I look at the world slightly differently than most.
(Sorry about the edit; LJ took a return and turned into a submit comment.)