Why do we text message?

Text messaging is only part of the topic at hand

Do you text?
If you text that is actually only a smaller part of the newest trend in human behavior.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration shares that 2 out of ever 10 Americans text while driving, that is probably a low estimate but still the number is clearly up from the prior year.

The issue of text messaging is only part of the overall picture of societies trends
The global population is over 7,000,000,000 billion humans.
The need for people to be in touch has become more of a nervous response then a true need.
Text messaging is a lower cost, or all together free service and has been popular in developing countries since the advent of the cell phone, smartphone, and now tablet markets.

Is it a fact that women are more addicted to text messaging then men?

The speed at which information is pounded at humans is like none ever experienced in the history of mankind.

The need to be connected to have value has grown to epic proportions and the information often being shared is meaningless and non important, the true issue is that this is nervous habits have become a major safety issue but more then likely it is a serious health issue.

The value of your very existence is growing more meaningless
Not to be a bummer here but news is not sticky today, people die in major natural and human accidents and within as little as a week the news is no more, regardless of the magnitude of the topic being it, a mass murderer, a child molester, families that kill their children then themselves, the news just fades as more news floods the media outlets by the micro-second.

Case in point
Lady takes her 3 children with her into the welfare office in dire need of government assistance. She is denied the handout service so she pulls out a gun shots her 3 children then herself, but even while the mother if pulling the trigger on that gun one child manages to send out a status update, what is most striking is not the mother shooting her children and herself, but that the child has a text message device, I thought they needed assistance to survive, even if the phone was a gift from a relative, the money should have been given to the mother to help them be able to eat, and have a warm bed to sleep in, and clean cloths to wear.

Do you have the ability to send a text while looking down the barrel of a gun? would you? 

The need to be in the know
There is the compelling reason for the human to be the first to report or take an image and share that news or image with their group of friends as fast as they can get this important or trivial information out first.
For the happy news sharing is sticks me that people are under some sort of social pressure to share, instead of enjoying say, a concert. We see that people are holding up their camera devices to take images and share them when they should be enjoying the concert they are attending with the friends they are attending the event with.

What makes some Logic-al sense to me
Slow down a tad, enjoy the experience.
If the friends you have, digital or for real are that interested in what you are wearing, eating, doing, or seeing, then would they not be there with you to also experience this it?

Have a great time,
Logic.

P.S. If you text Logic, you will be called, I do not believe in the text process or urge.