More thoughts on texting

Last text message I received: "<family friend>'s mother died yesterday"
First text message I received: "Got a curling iron"

I'm not much of a texter, and I really only send text messages when it's more convenient than just talking over the phone.  I don't have unlimited texting as part of my phone plan so my texts are usually terse and lack vowels.  The texts I receive, though, come in varying writing (or texting?) styles and are on a wider range of topics.  That first text message I ever received was from one of my close high school friends and in regard to that hair appliance that she wanted to use for her hair for prom.  I think she chose to text me rather than call because she didn't know if I was in class or not at that time.  That last message was texted to me probably because the sender primarily communicates through text.  I'm actually glad I got the information through text rather than over the phone because it gave me the chance to react privately, without having to audibly express my thoughts and feelings right then and there to the person on the other line.  And also I received the information while I was in a public bathroom, and...I just would not have liked to receive that kind of phone call while washing my hands, amidst the typical commotion of a ladies restroom (women washing hands, applying makeup, fixing hair, talking to stall-mates).

Sometimes it's better, nicer, to hear someone's voice and have a normal conversation over the phone.  I'm not a great phone interlocutor, though, because I tend to get excited and interrupt the person on the other side, and half of the art of conversation is reading nonverbal cues.  I like communicating through writing, so, logically, I should prefer to text and I should have taken to text-messaging easily.  Eh, I feel that in a couple of years I'll really get the hang of texting and feel more compelled to use it more often, especially after realizing that there are times when receiving a text is more preferable.