I'm 55 and need to text.
Why you ask ?.
'Cause I am still employed and a goodly number of my fellow employees are 30 or younger. Pretty much no youngster in this age bracket (0-30) can understand that a Cell Phone is just that - A PHONE, I.E. a device used to communicate VERBALLY !. Thus they pretty much never actually use their cell phones to TALK to someone, they use them as the next best thing, as an insanely stupid sub-miniature typewriter.
As a survival technique, I have learned to use this stupid sub-miniature typewriter to actually communicate with this age bracket and actually own an Android phone for such purpose, texting. It's not bad actually, it's like sending an e-mail.
SB