The Female Text-Communication Phenomena: Explanation?
Posted on: May 23, 2008 - 5:07pm
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The Female Text-Communication Phenomena: Explanation?
It doesn't 'drive me bonkers' like it does some guys, but the whole near-obsessive attachment a lot of girls in my demograph have to text messaging really causes me to scratch my head. It seems like that note-writing / passing phenomena in high school.
Why do girls enjoy these forms of communication so much? In my experience, it's not because they don't like talking. 
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I admit, I'm pretty baffled by the text craze, and you're right... I know several girls who can text faster than they can talk. It's amazing.
I like the texts myself, because it's often hard for me to answer the phone right when someone calls, and it gives me a few minutes to get back, but I restrict it pretty much to one or two words, and almost always business stuff. It's a functional thing.
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In my case, they are all writing about what a big stud I am. They are just to shy to come out and say it, so they communicate in secret.
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It's a way of playing the field. You can multitask conversations via texting versus having a conversation on the telephone. For a chic that gets a bunch of guys calling her, she can level the playing field by texting and not deal with having to make verbal excuses why some other guy is trying to hit her up.
I hated texting until I got the Iphone. It has a on screen keyboard and keeps logs of all your texts. I still prefer talking on the phone tho.
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Well here in SA everyone,including myself , is addicted to texting due to something called Mxit,basically a IM for phones. Because it is virtually free and extremly addictive, it has become practically a life style among the youth. I won't lie, I spend 4-10 hours a day texting. Both sexes do it equally, and I'm unfamiliar with the whole 'female obsession.'
Kids just like texting?
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I only text people I don't want to talk to or when I literally can't talk. *shrugs*
But of course they found a way to say twice as much, they text WHILE talking!
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I don't text and I dislike talking on the phone. Chatrooms and forums for me.
Just curious:
Were you ever part of the 'note passing' crowd in high school?
- Leon Trotsky, Last Will & Testament
February 27, 1940
No. I was too busy sleeping or skipping school to pass notes. Elementary school--maybe.
No doubt about that.
Texting on cell phones, as I'm aware of, is not cheap. I've heard accounts that some kids have run up extremely high bills on just that (some hundreds of dollars, can't remember where i heard that though).
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My brother's step daughter did just that. I can't remember the exact figure.
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Unlimited texting plans are available from many carriers these days. I know back in the days it was something like 25 cents a text or something like that, but today, it's practically unlimited, with the righ plan of course.
you probably have a sample bias. quite a lot of young people are obsessed with texting, regardless of sex. I know my brother can't get off his texting phone, and he racks up such a phone bill from constantly texting his friends. Me... I purposefully "lose" my phone so I don't have to talk to people on it.