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Today many people use their phones more for sending texts than for calling.

What are the reasons for this? Are there more advantages than disadvantages to sending texts compared with calling?

When it comes to sending text message, there is a growing debate about that sending a message has advantages and disadvantages.

Everything has pros and cons so using a message has also pros. First, it is difficult to talk detail contents and expression. When people are calling each other, they can feel and recognize tons of things from the voice, such as feeling of the person who talk with. That is why many people use calling and try to listen others voice directly when they have to talk about serious and important issues. In addition, a lot of people who think that trust is very significant tend to use calling than texts. Although there are same with contents when they send text messages and call using a phone, people are easy to believe the contents when they are calling and listening directly.

However, there are also good things when people use text messages than calling. Especially, young people prone to use message application through a smartphone. Because texting is faster than calling to deliver what they want to say. That is the recent trend that most young people are used to short words than full sentences. Additionally, people say that there is emotional expression different with calling with voice. When people send text messages, they are able to use emotion icons, called “Emoji”, and words that they use only in texts. There are tools to express their feeling different with calling. Finally, most workers are very busy to live in modern society. It means there are not a lot of time to take a phone. That is when people usually send a message to others. Lately, this is just one of attitudes to workers who do not want to disrupt their jobs.

In conclusion, sending text messages has various pros that people can send contents quickly and express felling ad their own way. But there are also many cons that people are hard to deliver serious talking and give the trust.

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