Just to be clear, I'm not saying that ALL texting is bad. Every single time we hit that send button we have to determine what will it be accomplishing for us, and could it be misinterpreted?
Every text should be something that leverages your position, not diminishes it. Texting is truly a chess game. It shouldn't be, but it is.
As I think about it, we can also run the risk of losing our mystique via texting. Especially when in-person we have created this mystique and then all of a sudden we're "LOLing" and "smiley facing" ourselves into oblivion just like her silly friends and her hopeless orbiters.
I consider texting to be a useful tool, but a dangerous one. It can turn on you instantaneousely if she misinterprets (and since as a female she defines words and expressions differently than you), she WILL misinterpret.
When you are in person or talking on the phone and you make a conversational mistake, you can cover it by diverting her attention. Bullet dodged. However, when you do that during texting, there is no option to do a quick distraction. It's game over. That sudden long silence is her assigning all sorts of meanings to what you just typed. She might be looking at it again and again, which literally translates to you saying it again and again.
For myself, I treat texting with the utmost respect as something that can turn on my very quickly if I'm not careful. Above all, I don't want to make myself common, just another part of the throwaway conversations she has every hour of every day with her friends.
My job is to become larger than life, to transcend the common. I can't do that in that little tiny window of mediocrity unless I know how to elicit the emotions that I want to elicit. That means well-crafted words, VERY FEW words, and above all, zero important or deep conversations during texting.
Her phone funnels the people in her life down to a single tiny interface and all become equal therein.