Gender Texting

     In class this week we read an article about texting and technology and how it is affecting how kids grow up nowadays.  The issue of texting in girls vs. boys came up quite a few times and I wanted to address it in my blog.

     My own personal opinion and a few of my friends all agree that girls text more than boys.  Some reasons for this belief are that girls talk and have conversations with other girls over text messages.  Girls are able to carry on conversations over texting when boys usually text to each other when they have something to say, they wouldn't text to have a real conversation.  Now, I am not a boy so this is all from experience and from being friends with boys, but in general I think this is the way genders differ in their texting habits.

     An exception to this "rule" is when a boy has a girlfriend or is trying to woo a girl into liking him.  This will cause the boy to text more and be more into his text conversations with the girl.  I am now sitting with a boy in the Spa and he agrees that girls text more than boys.  He also says when boys text each other it is usually more of a "hey whats up?" followed by a "nothin much" then silence.....

     In the old days where people actually made calls to each other and talked on the phone, girls still called each other to talk about the drama of the day or if anything significant happened to them.  Boys would only call each other to ask if the other wanted to hang out and the conversation would be over in a matter of seconds.  It's in human nature for women to be more conversational and interested in everything that's going on.  Men tend to be less interested in gossip and drama between each other but they will listen if a girlfriend is texting them about it.