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Why do we choose to text instead of talk?

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The Importance of Texting

Poet Gary Turk believes that we lose something uniquely human when we stop talking. There are practical problems involved with texting too, as he explains to BBC World Services the wife factor. He thinks that despite its convenience, texting creates situations where we have to tread on minds.

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