I have a friend who we affectionately call the “texting queen”. She loves to text message. We can be sitting there chatting and her phone is buzzing in her hand. She can simultaneously text and talk to you at the same time. The other day she was talking to one of our friends on the land line phone and texting me about what they were talking about. Crazy huh?
But this tells alot about her communication style. She loves to chat and chat alot and texting allows her to do so anytime, anywhere both quickly and easily. It’s no wonder teens love to text. It is much faster than calling someone and it can be done from anywhere.
I also find that texting is alot like being online. Some people communicate better in “writing” so to speak and so for them texting is a great option, allowing them to communicate their true feelings in a way that they might never would if they had to “speak” those words out loud instead. I find this quite freeing actually. I have found though I am a speaker by “trade” that there are some people I communicate better to through the written word, so for this texting is one of the options by which to communicate with them better.
So, in my opinion texting should absolutely be an option for you to use to communicate with your daughter, though some may call it “impersonal” I believe that it can be just the opposite, a way to get “personal” with them on their level and understand them better than ever before! Now, GO TEXT your daughter!
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Alyssa,
You’re exactly right. My daughter and I both better at expressing ourselves in text. We got my daughter her first cell phone at the start of the school year. Her fingers just fly. We are able to connect via text. The only problem is that I’ve realized my cell phone is lame. It’s old and texting is just no fun with multi-tap … so now I’ve got to get a new phone.