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"   It should not come as a surprise to anyone under the age of 70 that the Youngs are using text messages more frequently to set up dates and romantic encounters.  After all, even if you don&amp;#039;t do it, this is frequently mentioned in scare pieces about &amp;quot;hookup culture&amp;quot; in &amp;quot;the age of technology,&amp;quot; written by a 45-year-old who is shaking their head at Kids These Days with their Crazy Robot Phones. (When they were kids, they had to have phone sex over a set of tin cans with a piece of twine connecting them!) USA Today reports that the younger you are, the more likely it is that you&amp;#039;re planning dates via text: 21 to 26-year-olds use texting 38 percent of the time; 27 to 34, 36 percent; and 30 to 29 percent up until age 50.  But aside from elder generations who fear cell phones the way Bryce Dallas Howard fears cars in The Village, not everybody&amp;#039;s dissatisfied with the current twentysomething generation&amp;#039;s text-heavy state of affairs. It is a common misconception that all girls prefer the call over the text \u2014 many of us, myself included, prefer Gchat, text, skywriting or World War II code over the call. I hate talking on the phone with anyone. I can barely make it five minutes with my mom or my best friend without pulling a &amp;quot;Sorry, I&amp;#039;m walking into a paleolithic cave where I don&amp;#039;t have service!&amp;quot; so you can imagine my reaction when some random guy I met at a Ratatat concert calls me up to schedule a date. Or worse, just to shoot the sh*t. If you have a bad imagination, it&amp;#039;s something like this:  So unless you&amp;#039;ve just been arrested for murder and/or I&amp;#039;ve accidentally become pregnant with your child, we don&amp;#039;t have that much to talk about yet, let alone have a conversation in real time. For God&amp;#039;s sake, just text me. It&amp;#039;s more fun and less pressure, and how else can I obsessively go over the conversation accurately with my annoyed friends? Follow Anna on @Twitter  Image via Fame Flynet "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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