texting

How many ways do we need to communicate? I have a cell phone, a work phone, 3 email accounts, a standard US postal mailbox, and blog. I try to keep up with messages in each. Still, I cannot convince people that I see no need to add texting. I think part of my suspicion about texting comes from having a friend who was deeply in love with a man in Nashville and deeply addicted to texting. She developed the attention span of a 6 year-old with ADD, high on kool aid and cocoa puffs. When her phone was vacant of messages, she would look at it forlornly, waiting for another sign of hope that she was constantly on his mind to appear. The actual people she was with did little to alleviate her anxiety over waiting to hear from him. I have to think this does little for the pursuit of joy and much for the pursuit of addiction.