Let's chat...no, let's text (or so it seems)

Yes, we still prefer to gab on the phone but that may change in a few years. Nearly one-third of Americans prefer texting to calling, according to a new survey conducted by Pew Research.

Other nuggets from the report:

• 83 percent of American adults own cell phones
• 73 percent send and receive text messages
• Voice calling remains the most preferred form between that but 31 percent say they prefer texting to talking on the phone
• Only 14 percent were undecided and replied it depends on the situation

No surprise which cohort of the population is the most addicted to texting: Young adults - and by a wide margin. The report phone that cell users between the ages of 18 and 24 fire off an average of 109.5 messages on a normal day. Calculated another way, that amounts to more than 3,200 texts per month.