It also depends greatly on the conversation you plan to have. If I'm hitting up my wife to see what she wants for dinner, that's perfect as a text - it's brief and benefits from being asynchronous. But if I want to talk about something time sensitive (perhaps I'm at the restaurant already so I need an answer now, or maybe an emergency has happened) I call. I don't think people prefer to use text most of the time so much as they use the most appropriate medium for the discussion.
I honestly really think this depends on the age/generation of the participants (or perhaps it's just personality and I'm wrongly ascribing it to generation).
I'm with you 100% (and am later Gen X FWIW). But I have some friends born late 80s who will have these drawn out, intricate, sensitive conversations for literally hours over text and all I can think is "jeezus, just call them on the damn phone!"
