I never text. Mainly because it aggravates the life outta me to see people constantly texting. Secondly, because I really have no big need for it. A phone is for talking verbally to a person. Texting is just pulling people further away from social interaction. Its causing society to hide behind a wall while they speak with others. Its weird how people will text about anything to another person, yet will only say very few things verbally, and even less things in person.
I'm not some bookworm or a guy who likes to follow every single rule in school/college or whatever, but generally you shouldn't have your cell phone out during class. And it drives me up the wall to set and see someone texting while the teacher is giving a lecture. I'm all for playing my DS or something while the teacher is chatting away, well, I used to be back in high school. But I mean my God, I'm in college, and people pay all that money for classes just to set and text their friends who apparently have nothing else to do at the time.
But from a sociology standpoint, as I said before, texting, as well as internet chat, pulls people further away from real social interaction. I'm fine with online chatting, but a phone is a phone. Its really kinda sad how people talk so much through texting but in person, will literally become a different person. It messes with people's heads a lot, at least it does mine. Say I meet a girl or something that lives near me, get her number or screenname, and she texts or messages me online. We talk for a week or so, chatting it up like we've known each other for years. Then, when we get around to going out somewhere, she doesn't hardly say two words. That drives me insane. People have so many different personalities these days when they should only have one, which should be apparent in all forms of communication, not just this one or that one.