Talking to someone in the oral form can be really brief, stress free and a whole lot let said in a much shorter time, whilst texting could be cumbersome, tiring, elongating and time-consuming. That said; who gives a shit. We live in the "time"; the texting era. Aside the obvious/alternate positivities of IM/texting, researchers' been publishing stats on the harms its had in this period of its boom....http://thehoppersgrill..com/2012/03/beauty-in-texting.html