Do Text Messages Count as Communication?

Last week’s writing assignment for this week’s installment of the MR Writer’s Prompt touched upon the notion of text messaging as perhaps too modern a form of communication for the generation that bore us but didn’t specifically ask a question that is probably worth answering: is texting a viable form of communication? While my mother doesn’t consider it to be, I’d be fairly hard pressed to imagine that if I were to ignore any number of the tedious orders she commanded of me via mobile keyboard, she wouldn’t take it personally.

So, let’s make the best of this cogitation station, evaluate both pros and cons and talk about this LIKE THE OVERGROWN BABIES THAT WE ARE.

Do texts count? Why wouldn’t they? Can evocative conversation happen over messaging apps? When are/aren’t they an appropriate form of communication? How frequently do you even pick up the phone to call people anymore? And perhaps most importantly: what’s the last thing you sent to your mom?