Text messaging vs. phone calls

Heres something interesting as a followup to our concept for this class: Not only are older adults using text messaging more, but a survey from Opinion Research Corp. found that text messages are quicker: kids typically respond to a text message within a minute. The survey found that not only are users under the age of 30 more likely to answer a text sooner than voicemail, but also adults 30 and older are more likely to respond to a text in a few minutes rather than a voice message.

A few thoughts... as text messaging of lots of teens can approach and exceed 1,000 texts per month and minutes are limited to 450-600 per month are we now implying that speaking and verbal person to person communication are going to fall behind?

What is it about this kind of immediacy that might lead to some out of the box thinking about the propensity to use these types of devices for communication?

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