Email and text messaging are the main ways of communicating with my friends, family, and colleagues. My manager and I even text message now to relay messages back and forth! I find myself on the phone less and less as the years go by. I'm not sure that is such a good thing?!

Like Lori, I find that email and texting (which both can happen from either your computer or your cell phone) are replacing actual calls. Unlimited texting plans can sometimes be cheaper than using your minutes, so I find ways more often than not to communicate my message effeciently in a text. When I lived in Spain, where there is an automatic service charge on your call when the person your calling on the other line picks up, practically the only way young people communicate is through texting (which has no service fee). There is also this method described as giving someone a "toque" or "touch" with your cell phone where you just call once and hang up- letting them know you have arrived/are ready/call you back/etc, which again gets around the additional service charge you would accrue even by just leaving a voice mail. It seemed commonly understood that a missed call usually had more of a meaning than just a missed call. Like the Spaniards I met, I too try to be technolgically creative and economically concervative with how I communicate. In the end though, my grandma still wants a hand-written letter and a phone call and I am happy to oblige :)