"(...) Sherry Turkle, author of Reclaiming Conversation (2015), has found that people initially used texts as an add-on to face-to-face conversation, but the texts soon became a substitute: more convenient, more controllable.
The problem with real conversation, one high-school senior told her, was that "it takes place in real time and you can't control what you're going to say".
Financial Times
Food for thought.