“mochoh timche: i didn’t mean to say there is NOTHING wrong with it. All I mean’t to say was that it isn’t out of line and worse then many other things”
the question was “has texting gone out of hand”. you answered that “there’s nothing wrong with it”. that means that in regards to whether texting has gone out of hand, it absolutely has not, even in the slightest, or so your choice of words connote. And even if not, what i said still is a valid critique of your position regardless, as this is not the opinion of the gedolim and valid daas Torah of today; it is also blatantly obvious in metzius, as is true about anything that metamorphases into an addiction; even without it being an addiction, it is quite obvious that it has the downside of eroding to some extent people’s interpersonal skills and quality of relationships, which is quite serious, especially in a society where divorce rates among religious jewsish couples is skyrocketing. V’chuli