Texting becoming a preference?

naisho said:
you gotta think deeper, there is so much you are singling out or being biased against. Have you ever observed a major metro area? Seen people talking while jogging or Mcdonalds taking orders?

Vocal communication benefits the business industry much further than you are implying. For one, not everyone has internet or a text plan, but many people have phones. Secondly, not everyone types 50wpm or faster, some can talk faster than they type.

fThird, vocal communication benefits big time in group situations. in the event of a group project or collaboration, instant feedback from people responsible for their sectors rather than reading through multiple emails/texts in linear fashion at once unable to assest a priority.

There is much out there that weights heavily in vocal communication in modern society, you have to open your eyes to recognize them.

Would you think presidential debates would do well in forms of a mass email or mass text?
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Yes to the bolded. Try relying on the CC for one of those debates and see how it works.
 
Bottesini said:
Yes to the bolded. Try relying on the CC for one of those debates and see how it works.
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fair enough, I see your point in that. ;)
However I was kinda thinking more along the participants realm rather than observers. How would Obama be able to ignore some of his haters at a rally, if it was in real-time text. :P
 
shel90 said:
About 10 years ago when cell phones were cheap and easy to use, I used to see hearing people constantly yapping away on the phones everywhere I went.

Well, now I dont see that much anymore. Instead, I see hearing people being like deaf people...texting away or just looking at their phones instead of talking on the phones.

I asked my hearing hubby if he noticed the same and he said that texting is much easier than talking on the phone. We know that today's teenagers are notorious for texting instead of being like the teenagers of my time who were notorious for spending hours and hours on the phone.

Now, if that's the case, do you think that would be good news for deaf/hoh people who are having difficulty finding jobs due to the phone issue? Like in the future, hearing people would be so acosomated to texting that they would make it a major tool to use as a means of communicating in the global work-force?

What do you think? Boy, that would sure HELP so many qualified deaf/hoh people!
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I wish but when talkabout came out, it wasn't as popular as I wanted to be. email havent grow popular yet. I guess people feel better about it if there more security (just like how some people don't trust scammers on Ip-relay).
 
deafgal001 said:
I wish but when talkabout came out, it wasn't as popular as I wanted to be. email havent grow popular yet. I guess people feel better about it if there more security (just like how some people don't trust scammers on Ip-relay).
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What's that?
 
JClarke said:
In Australia, they are illegal, police sees one, will fine them.
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Same here but people still are talking/texting on the phone. They don't care. Yesterday, I was driving on the highway (I went out for shopping in Portsmouth, New Hampshire and Kittery, Maine.. ) and I caught a teenager texting and driving at same time... Jeez..
Well, there is nothing we can do about it. Sigh..
 
shel90 said:
What's that?
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Its was one of those two way pager that came out in the late 90's. Back then everyone had to have a number pager and everyone owned one. Then the two way pager came out which is alot like texting but not many people used it. I guess it is because both party have to use the same company in order for it to be useful and it was pricey compare to number pager(). They rATher spend on cellphone.cellphone was growing and everyone was gearing to that. Text messaging is better on cellphones though
 
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