I think this prevents them from having to look at their phones, and the expressiveness mirrors speaking since text-to-speech is so immediate.
Yeah, at that point, you have your phone out and airpods in your ears.
This is just texting with more steps
I suspect they can text without looking at their phones -- I know kids could with physical T9 keypads. Having your phone in your lap while looking forward isn't as obvious as staring at your lap is.
I think its for the cool and fun factor and to hear google text-to-speech voice talking to you. It must feel cool one way or another, its usually how kids and teenagers spread things.
A big reason is that parents read kids' text messages. If there is no text message sent, there is nothing for your parents to find.
There's a delete button.
back in my day we had Snapchat
I think it's also because of the teachers. This way if the teacher accuses them of texting in class, the student can deny it and there's no evidence of the message.
because it is transmitted over the airpod connection
so there is no manipulating the network to stop it and its crypted so no evesedropping
The time used to read the message can be used to pretend you are working