Responding Texts Are Better Than Face-To-Face Communication

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Do you think that sending texts are better than face-to-face communication? Most people tend to send texts instead of face-to-face communication because it's faster. And also studies show that 1 in 4 people interact with people online more often than they do face-to-face. Technology lets you stay caught up with our having to actually talk to someone. And most people choose to send text messages instead of actually talking to the person because it's faster and easier.

If you ever went up to someone and asked them randomly ¨what do you do more? , send text messages or do you actually talk to someone?¨ most of them would actually say that they text people more often because technology has gotten bigger over the past years. Its been making more

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