Understanding Communication

When you are talking with someone 51% of what you are communicating is non-verbal, 35% is in your tone, while only 14% is in the words you use.  This can definitely impact how people may react to a text, letter, or email, because you are losing 86% of the conversation.  Yet our society continues to increase the amount they text through every generation.  You can hardly do anything even in person with people now without them bringing their phones out in the short amount of time you are with them.  When my husband and I invite people over to our home it is rare that they don't at some point bring out their phone and it is usually for a text.  I think that a lot of people would agree that if they called someone or answered a call, or even just went to talk to someone else while they were in the middle of a conversation with someone, that it would impolite, yet you are doing the same thing with a text because you are having a conversation with someone else who isn't even there (in most cases).  I know I still do a lot of my conversations through text, but now that I understand how much I miss I hope that I will try harder to at least make a call instead of conversing through a text.