These days I generally text people rather than make phone calls.

• To text. This is a very English phenomenon.
• Text is really a noun - a text is something you read.
• However, the English language is quite versatile and often nouns are just turned into verbs.
• That's what happened here.
• To text someone means to send a text (written)message to that person's mobile phone.
• e.g. He just texted me.
• I'll text him.

This sentence is an example of telephones, technology.