Chris Gethard Quotes

People respond faster to you on a text than an e-mail. Why is that? Why will they ignore an e-mail, but get back to a text?

Sending a message on a mobile phone is not the most natural of ways to communicate. The keypad isn't linguistically sensible.

I text nonstop, and I love emoji. I'm also on the phone quite a bit for work - probably more than 10 calls per day.

People banging away on their smartphones are fluently using a code separate from the one they use in actual writing, but a code it is, to which linguists are currently devoting articles.

I'm terrible on the phone. I just text my friends and family and say, 'Hey, I'm in town.'

You know, photo conversations are replacing verbal conversations. I don't know if that's a bad thing. A photo is worth a thousand words.

Teenagers would rather text than talk. They feel calls would reveal too much.

All the trends show that email usage among the younger cohorts of Internet users is declining. Whether it will take five or 30 years for email to go extinct, I'm not sure.

I've suffered from all of the hang-ups known, and none is as bad as the telephone.

What makes our product work is the way we're tightly focused on messaging and being an SMS replacement.

I'm someone that speaks with their pads.

I love texting and DM'ing on Twitter. I will pretty much avoid talking on the phone at all costs.

When I have to take phone calls, I start to sweat and panic. Being on the phone is so weird - hearing a voice without seeing the face so you can't really know the intention behind the voice.

Sending a text and not having to talk takes the pressure off. You are always in control of digital conversations.

I've always been a texting advocate.

If you get a WhatsApp message, you're probably going to open it. That's the interesting thing.

I actually get very little phone calls. I get way more tweets and texts. My phone rarely rings.

How many of you text message? It's a great way of not communicating.

Calling is for #‎ Men - Texting is for #‎ Teenagers .

We live in an age where people are like, "I'd love to catch up. Maybe text me later? But don't call because I don't really listen to my messages. But if you text me..." We've displaced interaction into sound bites and untethered phrases and sentences that come up on the phone as Twitter feed.

We're technology obsessed. I think it's easier to text than to actually say hi to someone.

I tried getting my dad to buy me a beeper for my birthday,” he says, “but he thinks only doctors and drug dealers need them.

I don't use the social media but I can see the effects in my own correspondence. I get a ton of correspondence. It used to be hard copy and now it's a very limited amount of actual letters people write. So it's mostly email.

When in doubt, I go to the phones a lot because it adds a new dimension and a new energy. It kind of takes me out of the equation if I feel like I irritated them or they aren't into the experience.

I miss being able to call people back instead of having to text them that I can't talk right now.