Texting: Are Men or Women Better at Returning Them?

The Split Second-In Consideration of Others in These Trying Times

I want to continue discussing the “almighty” cell phone which is a significant part of my unpublished book The Split Second:  In Consideration of Others or Look Up from the Phone and How to Deal with Rudeness in Others. The cell phone has obviously made a huge impact on our society. Much of that impact is good; some of it is not. I have seen people of all ages and all walks of life who are either rude in using their cell phones too much in public and/or are totally too dependent on the  cell phone. As a high school teacher, when I took a cell phone from a student, he/she might have acted as if I had severed off one of his/her limbs. That is funny to think about that now.

I pose one question and I would love to get feedback from fellow subscribers of the platforms I use. I am not trying to be sexist here, and if I were, I would be sexist against my own gender. Who is better at returning text messages: men or women?  I tend to believe that women are much, much more considerate with returning texts. Men can take a long time to do so, or in many cases, my gentlemen friends do not return texts at all. Yes, folks can say that they are much too busy to return texts. But how long does it take to compose a text? It can come down to how important the text sender is in our lives. There is a big difference between the person who has the attitude of “I sent you a text; you need to respond immediately”, and the one who never returns texts. There is a happy medium here. As for the first person, I do not expect folks to return my texts right away; however, it is very nice when they do so.

There! The blogs continue to get shorter.