The lack of touch and body contact can significantly reduce the experience of intimacy in text relationships. Some people are attracted to the silent, less visually stimulating, and non-tactile quality of text relationships. Text communication enables people to avoid the f2f cues that are distracting or irrelevant to the relationship. Without the distraction of f2f cues, text relationships enable people to connect more directly to the other's psyche. Saved messages 4.1.
Saved messages can be accurate information for reliving and reevaluating the relationship.
They provide continuity in the relationship. Saving text dialogues can help people reduce errors in recall, some of which might be due to distorted perceptions of the other person. Saved text read at different points in time will be interpreted differently based on changes in the person's state of mind and the overall psychological context in which the text is read. People vary widely in how much of their messages they save and what types of messages they save. This reflects their attitude and style of being in the relationship.