Recent studies have shown 1,084,722,222 texts are sent every hour in the United States.
Initially beginning this assignment, I believed gathering the picture of individuals on their cellphone was going to be tough. But the more I took time off my phone and watched the people around me; I noticed how many people were always on their phones despite the environment.
But when I say people were on their phones, I don’t mean they were talking on their phone…out of all the pictures I took randomly, none of the images displayed a regular voice conversation between two persons. I kid you not the rarest sight was seeing someone having an actual phone conversation & not the part where ALL people were carrying their phones around. In one picture, I noted a young girl on Facetime with her friend, after continuously going back and forth with her friends via text, I finally questioned why she didn’t just call. She looked at me and said, “phone conversations make her nervous.”
Now I too am a millennial, and I also prefer texting over phone conversations, depending on the person. I believe that text messages allow people the opportunity to draft, edit, and gloss their responses before send-off, which can be both a good and a bad thing. For this reason alone, I believe texting will continue to be the number one form of communication for a while & this project has helped me see that.
Nyah Speaking. 