The primary purpose of early phones was to allow people to talk with each other in in large distance. However, nowadays more and more people prefer writing messages rather than talking on phone.
On the one hand, there are a lot of benefits of doing conversations by texting on mobile phones. Firstly, some individuals usually prefer texting, to convey their messages, as they feel shy or uncomfortable to say that on phone calls or, to say that face to face meetings. For instance, some employees send text messages to their bosses for taking a day off or other reasons because they feel uncomfortable to say it verbally or calls. Next reason why people choose texting messages is because of their daily work. In our century people are busy with working mode, for example driving or attending an official meeting and so on. That’s why they are unable to reply to the calls, so other people drop a message for them. Thus, whenever they have free time than they can read it
On other hand, there are some draws backs of texting messages. Texting consumes a lot of time typing. People avoid long discussion on messages, because of this people write incorrect or short spellings in their messages which affects their academic and professional life. And according to the survey of Union Telecom, usually young employees write incorrect spellings in their emails because they are habitual of it because they are doing too much texting on phones
To summarize, masses do text message for their convenience and it’s cheaper than phone calls. There are some draws backs which can be solved according to situations. I think the benefits of text messages are outweigh on disadvantages