Can someone explain the appeal of text messages?

[luckies4me]

I'm not too fond of sending regular text messages...or recieving them for that matter, but I LOVE sending picture messages! Since none of my family live near me and cannot see/visit me and my children it's nice to have the ability to send pictures to them during the day when one of them does something too adorable you have to send and share. WOW, talk about a run on sentence lol.

[Blue_Frog]

I've read most of the thread so far, and I do a lot of what people have already posted.

I text a lot more than I talk on my cell phone. I don't like talking on the phone to a lot of people (there are a few exceptions however). This is because i did phone technical support for around 6 years -- so, 5 days a week, 8.5 hour days of nothing but talk-talk-talk to customers, call after call. It kind of threw me off wanting to talk on the phone a lot on my personal time, even now *lol*

I text message with my boyfriend throughout the day when hes at work - because he does technical support as well, i can send him quick messages and get quick messages back without inturrupting him doing his job. I also text him from moms farm on the weekends -- again, long distance costs money, but the text messages are free regardless of where I am. Makes it a lot cheaper when all i want to do is send the "thinking of you" message, and get my "kisses" in return

I also chat mostly with people through MSN - make plans, generally chat, etc. since you can maintain many conversations at once. I've even got my parents on MSN - since they like to call me at work at the most inopportune times, it gives them a chance to send me messages knowing that i'll get back to them when I can

[Alysser]

For me text messaging is just an added convience. I don't overly use texting like alot of people, and mostly talk on the phone. At times I have short conversations with text, I use it to send a short message, etc. I don't really enjoy it as it takes forever for me to type a message even with "t9 word".