Quotes About Interaction

People respond faster to you on a text than an e-mail. Why is that? Why will they ignore an e-mail, but get back to a text?

It used to be that people had a way of dealing with the world that was basically, 'I have a feeling, I want to make a call.' Now I would capture a way of dealing with the world, which is: 'I want to have a feeling, I need to send a text.'

Who wants to talk on the phone? If you want to talk to me, text me. Or if we must, let's meet in person.

A text conversation is a short exchange of often grossly truncated language that corresponds to a thought made all the more shallow by the process.

Communications is the biggest driver of frequency of use of anything. Think about how many times a day you check your email on your phone or text someone or message someone.

I'm terrible on the phone. I just text my friends and family and say, 'Hey, I'm in town.'

I get real brave when I text people. When I text people, I am so brave because it's words, but you can't say stuff.

I think that we're reducing who we are as human beings to these cell phones and these devices; now we don't even want to pick up a telephone to talk - we just text.

If you don't text your relationship partner - even if you just saw them in person - it's like you're doing something wrong.

One thing I can't stand is when people - not our team, but other people - don't respond. Everybody can email, everybody can text... using an email auto-response is not the world we live in.

It is fair to say that I am generally very bad at keeping in touch - with everyone. When I read a text, my brain seems to think that I have replied to it, and so I am often genuinely surprised when people tell me I haven't.

People avoid the telephone because it's easier to text. Calls can be awkward - you interrupt each other; you can't quite hear someone. But the advantage is you get to hear someone else's voice. You find out whether or not you can have a fluid conversation or if it's stilted and peculiar.

When I release my music I will text Sharon Osborne and ask her about my songs.

None of my friends are big posters - we're old school. We text, phone and meet up and have a beer or have a curry.

'LOL' is one of several texting expressions that convey nuance in a system where you don't have the voice and face to do it the way you normally would.

There are moments of opportunity for families; moments they need to put technology away. These include: no phones or texting during meals. No phones or texting when parents pick up children at school - a child is looking to make eye contact with a parent!

I find it personally distracting when kids are constantly texting, but they can be texting something that is just benign and just fine.

I suppose if I didn't have Loopt, I'd have to, I don't know, pick up the phone and just start calling people, a lot more texting and certainly more Googling.

I do think technology really has changed the way that we communicate with each other and texting can be the way to communicate and to kind of get up the nerve to say things that maybe you wouldn't say in real life, but that also comes with a price.

I think when you're starting up a situation, it's really fun texting or BBMing or whatever.

I've always been a texting advocate.

I am always texting!

Texting is a lot like an answering machine. If you don't want to talk to somebody, it's like screening your calls. To me, it's a way of communication, but not one that I favor.

A big part of the challenge is teaching your kids how to have a real conversation, not a texting conversation. If they're not sitting down at the table, the art of conversation is going to go.