There's a sense of aliveness that comes from connection shared experience. And you see it in every place. You see it when ball players jump up and down gather at home plate hugging and it's not just because they're winning it's that shared moment that feeling of - we enter the world alone we leave alone.
Habitual texters may not only cheat their existing relationships they can also limit their ability to form future ones since they don't get to practice the art of interpreting nonverbal visual cues.