I am self-employed and have customers who need to reach out to me about one thing or another. I’m okay with phone calls. Phone calls get business done quickly. Text messages are terrible. If I get one text message, I’ll respond right away if I can, but only the first message. If he shoots a message back, I call. If he doesn’t answer, I wait a few hours to text back again. I absolutely refuse to turn our conversations to SMS conversations.