I hate text messaging

So I had to text massage SA yesterday to cancel our date. I really hate text messaging. I much prefer talking to a person. However he was at work and doesn't talk while working. Well, he never got the text and now assumes that I stood him up. Once again though, I have to send a text to rectify the situation, and probably call things off too. Breaking up with someone via email used to be bad. Now we have this damned texting. I understand that technology is a great thing. It has made advances in many lives medically that are wonderful. But what has it done to human contact. Everywhere you look people are on their cell phones with no thought to anyone else around them. No one writes letters anymore, even long distance phone calls have lessoned because of email. And with cell phones you don't even have to call, you send a text. No wonder we have to try online dating. You can't get a real person to talk to you anymore.