One-third of Americans prefer texts to voice calls

Most Americans (53%) still generally prefer to get voice calls rather than text messages. Also Pew notes that 4% of cell owners do not make or receive any voice calls on an average day. And 27% of cell owners do not use text messaging, even occasionally.

 younger adults are especially likely to use texting. According to Pew, "Cell owners between the ages of 18 and 24 exchange an average of 109.5 messages on a normal day. Practically 3,200 texts per month.