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  • Doug Lee

    Texting for most tech questions and often for initial contact. Calls for more emotional situations because emotions move faster than fingers can type, and because it is easier in voice to gauge a reaction or a tone.

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  • The AI wizard

    I prefer text or email, but I’m kind of old-school, email used to be the way you did business and or introduced yourself to someone, texting is more casual friend like and once you get to know someone. Then a voice conversation on the phone and lastly, in person is like the final level. But all of those different levels of communication are funnels, they funnel out the bad people

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  • Laiah

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  • The AI wizard

    Replying to  @laiaht1207: Audio

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  • The AI wizard

    Replying to  @laiaht1207: Audio

    I think you’re on something there, nobody’s got any metaphorical balls to speak their mind anymore.

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  • Doug Lee

    Replying to  @laiaht1207: Audio

    Never heard the term "keyboard thug" before so I don't know exactly what it means, but my main reason for texting is that it is both less disruptive and more efficient for many tech questions. Voice messages are also an option for complex issues that don't become as disruptive. Actual voice connections are disruptive compared to both of those because they pretty much require everything else to stop. If it takes me 1 minute to read a text or voice message and 1 minute to reply either way, a voice call for the same thing would still usually exceed two minutes by far and must happen all at once. In the messaging case, if you send it at 4:00 but I'm in a meeting until 4:15, I can answer by 4:20 instead of us trying to work out a time to connect before 5. :)

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  • The AI wizard

    Replying to  @dlee42: Never heard the term "keyboard thug" before so I don't know exactly what it mean

    I think Doug is spot on here.

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  • Doug Lee

    Replying to  @laiaht1207: Audio

    I happened to read your comments out of order lol. For getting to know someone, I probably would agree that voice is better. I've been wondering if I know you from another semi concurrent context btw; if that baffles you, probably not; if you think TT, I probably do.

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  • Mark Driesenga

    Replying to  @NocturnalFeline: Audio

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  • TERRANCE SADLER

    I go with whatever the required moment that's TOTALLY UNPLANNED might be of either communication level, though I WILL SAY that ESPECIALLY when introducing myself to women for a hoped-for romantic hookup and we've happened to meet on any of the online or app platforms where there's the convenient capacity to share my over 18,145-character-written-long personal bio that accurately serves as ESSENTIALLY my MAIN, if not SOLE, option of introduction, due to its nature of the content therein that tends to ACCURATELY detail ALL that there is, SO FAR, to transparently define myself, OPTIMALLY, as opposed to VERBALIZING, WORD-for-WORD, AS MUCH, IF NOT ALL, that I've typed, I'D rather prefer to be DELIBERATELY LAZY ENOUGH to go the TEXTING route.

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  • Nikki

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  • TERRANCE SADLER

    ANOTHER convenience of selectively choosing to text is the capability of copying and pasting, ESPECIALLY if such of which that's duplicated is a conversation between either ME or WHOEVER ELSE and ANOTHER/OTHERS that I'm sharing the content of WITH, instead of manually quoting who said what, MYSELF, AGAIN, because I'm purposely lazy, which is EXACTLY what I DESERVE to be, ANYWAY.

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  • PhonoSapio

    Email = business. Text = check-in/casual chat. Talking = family/romantic partner/medical matters/boss/ particular colleagues. Of course, these are preferences, not anything etched in Stone. (I.E., business, depending on the depth, often moves to talking. Family/romantic partner, depending on efficiency, often switches to text.) I love having options!

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