Reply #12: I prefer email. [View All]

[Atypical Liberal]

I've never gotten into the whole "texting" thing, as I hate the tiny keyboards on phones, but I do prefer email over voice communications.

With email, I can dispense with all the pleasantries, like "Hi, how are you?" and then having to wait for the other person to give the obligatory "Fine, thanks!" when we both know that I neither care how he is doing nor would he tell me differently if he wasn't fine. I can get right to the meat and potatoes of the issue, and it doesn't matter if the person is available right then and there - they will get it as soon as they check their email. And, of course, it leaves an audit trail.