Lets talk

people please don't read this. No use at all. I promise

Well this relates to the infinite no. of discussions that i had with my "textual type" friend. ( discussion according to me & debate according to my friend). I guess to understand the situation a little better you will have to know a little more about the "textual" species.
It is very natural that the ease with which people express themselves varies with people, surrounding and medium of communication. For some people words never seem to either come out right or come out at all when in front of a person. There exists a sub category among those people who think that they converse fluently and with much greater levels of honesty when they pen down things. The "textual" species also feels that such level of honesty and fluency can not even be found even if you have the most trustworthy company until and unless the mode involved is text. Now there are other characteristics also that are shown with by the textual species. Actually i do believe that those characteristics might be the reason of people showing this "textual" syndrome. These category of people can without doubt be identified under the category of "introvert" people ( although their textual exploits prove otherwise). Either it is the lack of too many forums on which people can communicate through text making them textual or it may be the other way round, their love for text letting them hate every other form used by lesser mortals (like me) involving talks, debates, partying etc etc.......
So what is the case that i bring here today. Well the point that i have tried to bring home with my textual friend for quite some years now is this: There is no way that the mind and conscience would hinder in a person with the same level of honesty if the parties of the discussion are considered supremely trustworthy to each other. Th mind does play tricks in many cases. For example when one talks to a gathering; the fear of making a fool in front of so many people, the echo of own sound through the walls of the hall or the loud speakers cracking on your ears. Or in the case of a company of some one new , a girl that you would to impress... overload of self control mixed with fear of early rejection or embarrassments. Or lets say a person who you intentionally do not want to be honest too because you fear that if you are you would say rather bad things. In all these cases, yes the mind does play tricks on your verbal abilities and one does feel rather crippled with not only the words to say but with the thoughts.

But what if all of the above conditions are not there. You are not there in a big group , you are just with 1 other person. You do not feel the need to impress because you have known that person for years. You do no need to be dishonest because you really have accepted the person as he/she is and you know that there is nothing which you say honestly that can affect it adversely. Also given the fact the textual species in more enriched in the their knowledge of the vocabulary, the problem of "the right word is not coming to my mind ......" have lesser chances of occurrence.
So what is it that even under all the above given situations does that special species still prefer talking to the extent that they would shun other modes so as to get back into their own comfort zone of their blog dashboards or sms drafts or their diaries. Well at best i can only attempt some answers to this situation which can at best be labeled as "conspiracy theories" since i have never seen an answer from the textual kind in text.
I think that the answer lies in two layers. The first one lies with the person in question " the textual being" and the second one lies with the surrounding, the people with whom the first kind would not converse.
I feel that the first party here has much more than just a liking for text. They like a sense of security and sanctity around a personal space that they create around themselves. They want to be honest but they don't want to say it all ever and in front of any one. That is just to risky for them to do because its unchartered territory. The level of preprocessing involved when you speak something is rather less than when one writes... also the fact that writing allows you to edit... one has the feel that just because they wrote something in the flow of it ..doesn't mean that they can't take it back which is not the case with talking. hence talking is rather risky . Writing a diary or blog does not need to be an immediate answer while conversation does render you to put your opinion in rather quick fashion. So basically for a person with this shell of protection , every facet of the text is helping him reduce his feeling of vulnerability.
Now that i have mentioned this word vulnerability, it does make much sense to me that in front of a person that you know so much ... that person also is expected to know you a lot. hence for this generally introvert person ... the level of vulnerability is so much more in front of this 2nd person ... hence requiring the cover of "text".

Now coming to my second reason which centers around the 2nd party... the person that although has trust of the "textual being" but still doesn't get the opportunity to converse. Now since yours truly is a member of such category of people, I can guess as to what can be wrong with this situation. I think that the liking for talk and conversation Vs "text" is something which might frighten the "textual being". I also think that there exists an anti-"textual" species as well , something like the too vocal, extrovert, talkative and open kind. If by any chance the 2nd person falls into this category...... it does nothing more than further develop the need for text in the textual being.