Hi and welcome back to the Carol Markowitz show on I-Heart Radio. Are you single and don't want to be?

Here's your New Year's resolution. Stop texting. Look, I despise talking on the

phone. I don't have voicemail. I don't listen to voice notes. I'm a

texter all the way. By the way, I don't listen to voice notes. I'm a texter all the way. By the way I don't listen to voice

notes. Do not send me voice notes. They will never be heard. Don't do it. So maybe

I'm a hypocrite, but I can afford to be a hypocrite because I'm not on the dating scene.

I can limit all of my conversations with my husband to text, buy milk, kid is sick, because there's

very little for us to misunderstand and more important at the end of the day we have face-to-face conversations.

Studies have actually found that too much texting even when you're already in a relationship isn't healthy either.

Quick, I love you or scheduling texts are fine, even positive, but any attempt to conduct

serious conversations via text quickly leads to lower

relationship quality. It's obvious why. Texting is divorced from tone and can lead to

misinterpretation.

Was that a joke or is my boyfriend a jerk?

What does that emoji convey?

Texting blurs intent.

For example, young kids are super anti putting a period at the end of text now.

What if you don't know that?

What if you know you're from a generation that still does that, but they've adopted this new philosophy. It's all interpreted as

throwing shade so you can easily make a mistake and not even know it. The TV show

Catfish highlights stories of people who meet and fall in love online,

sometimes spending years in relationships

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