Are you a textaholic?

@RedX922 (143)
Romania
February 26, 2011 5:43am CST
Nowadays people without any gadget or other gsm devices are in rapid decrease...I have 3 questions for you guys... 1st. How many hours do you speak on the phone / day ? 2nd. How many messages do you send / day? 3rd. Do you think of you as an addicted person? I'm not a textaholic but i send about 150 messages/day :)) talking with my friends, but i really talk too much on the phone aroud 2-3hours/day... i think i'm addicted to the phone... what's your opinion about this addiction?
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• United States
26 Feb 11
I am definitely a textaholic. On a normal day, I can send anywhere between 300 to 400 messages. I carry on many conversations via text. I like to talk, but I don't want to use my voice to do it. Also, I get bored at work sometimes and can't pick up the phone to talk but I can still find solace in communicating via a text message.
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@RedX922 (143)
• Romania
27 Feb 11
are you a shy person? why didn't you want to use your voice? i'm thinking of typing messages not like a communication level, but as an informing level, because is not so secure as the call, anyone can type a message from your cellphone...
• United States
27 Feb 11
I don't let anyone touch my phone except for my girlfriend, who is free to look through it and use it as she pleases. And no, I'm not shy. I have a long history in a call center and just don't feel like talking speaking to communicate with someone who is not there with me. That and a lot of the time it's late at night or I'm at work, where I can't.
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@julise (494)
• Indonesia
26 Feb 11
Yes!!! I am. I can even text without looking on the phone. I text like 150-200 text a day. i rarely make a phone call. people calls me when they need me. texting and chatting from my phone is my way to keep the communication with my friends.
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@RedX922 (143)
• Romania
27 Feb 11
i absolutely understand you :D you are typing as more messages as me :) Do you want to stop being a textaholic? (although there is no cure for this kind of addiction,you can change yourself if you will want this) Hey do you think that people nowadays are controlled by the phone/gadgets? If you don't have such things you feel below of others?
@julise (494)
• Indonesia
27 Feb 11
no.... hahaha^^ not gonna stop this habit. i'll stop if texting getting more and more costly. so far texting is so freakingly cheap. hmm... i'm not controlled by phone or gadgets. i know i'm a textaholic. but i dont need the newest gadget or anything like that. all i want from my phone is all i the features i need. so i never buy unnecessary phone.
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@gerald_lian (2188)
• Australia
26 Feb 11
Wow, sending 150 text messages a day? And talking on the phone 2-3 hours a day? Amazing! It would be a miracle if you could get me to do that on a normal day...... I send on average about 5 text messages A WEEK and only talk on the phone for a maximum of 1 hour A WEEK. The only time when I have done more text messaging and phone calls were when I was in the organising committee for a youth camp and I had to contact others to get things organised. Other than that, I don't have many friends or relatives to call or text. So, bottom line, no I am not a textaholic or a phone-aholic......
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@RedX922 (143)
• Romania
26 Feb 11
you are a lucky person :) i can't stop writing messages... but today i wrote about 3 or 4 messages...i was in hurry and i didn't have time for taking a break... that means that i'm not such a textaholic because i didn't feel the addiction for writing the messages
• India
28 Feb 11
I send upto 400 messages in one day. when i start messaging i just keep on messaging for hours and hours . i just put a message card of 2$ and go on messaging my friends and chatting and discussing for long hours . i do not talk too often with my friends as we dont need calls , in messages only we do every talk.
@sweet_pea (3322)
• Philippines
17 Jun 11
Wow 150 messages a day! I only send an average of 5 sms a day. I'm sure you are into a plan that would help you cut off much of your phone bills. All of us at home, use the same network so we can save more since we can make unlimited calls and have unlimited texting. I wonder how much bill you pay for a month.
@thatgirl13 (7294)
• South Korea
26 Feb 11
I don't talk on phone much but I do sometimes talk for hours with my best friends. But i love texting. I absolutely do but I'm sorry i don't know how much i text a day. Wow you text 150 times a day?? I don't text that much though.
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@RedX922 (143)
• Romania
27 Feb 11
i understand you perfectly because when i start to talk i'm talking a lot of hours, even if i have or not a subject...yes...i text in 4 days about 630 messages :) it's a little bit more but, i can give up typing :) i think...
@rosekiss (30380)
• Eugene, Oregon
27 Feb 11
No, I am not a textaholic, but I was at one time, as my daughter and I would text instead of talking, but now we just talk mostly. I only send text messages when necessary, otherwise, I don't. I do like to text though, but I just would rather talk mainly than text. I do have a friend that will text me from time to time, but not all that much from her either. To me, texting is more for teenagers than grannies, but hey, when my frined texts me who is also a granny, I will test her back. Take care, and have a very good day.