Some people don't like texting but I am one who prefers texting over talking on the phone.
What do you prefer about texting over talking? 
I am just not a talker and be very busy so the communication to my family and friends using messages is much more complex.
That makes sense. Do you think emotions or context gets lost over text messages?
Yes a lot of times even when I receive certain text I be like wait is this suppose to be a inappropriate message or is my mom mad at or me or think I am being impolite. So it does have some down falls.
Does your entire family text more than talk on the phone? 
Yes they do it is much more convenient my mother in law even text us from her tablet, some times I do feel the lack of conversation comes in from text at times but the business of everyone it is convenient. 
That's nice that it's an easy way to stay in touch for you. My parents are really bad at texting, so I mostly communicate with them via telephone still. 
I do the same for my grand parents they are in their 90s so texting and sending emojis etc is not their thing but they love the videos and pictures of the kids I send lol.
Wow! That's great that your grandparents are in their 90's! And I think it's impressive that they use cell phones at all. Very cool.