Levels Of Intimacy In Communication

I was having a interesting discussion with my wife the other night about texting. My wife is a text maniac and in her work they use it constantly as a communication tool. But its not a very intimate form of communication to her because its used so often and her number is out to so many people many times she gets texts from people that are more like news bulletins. But my wife applies this to her texting life and sends me out texts like we were sitting in the same room together... always reminding me of a meeting we have later that night... or a upcoming vacation... and it annoys the crap out of me. So here is what I am talking about and its probably different for everybody. For me I have various things I use and they all have different levels of intimacy. Texting and AOL Instant Messenger I take VERY seriously and for me it is the highest level of intimacy. When I see a message or a text I feel like I have to respond. So when people contact me and are like hey is this shoemoney and I am like yes and they are like "whats up?". I can't tell you how annoying that is. Fortunately (now) I have figured out how to only allow people I manually add to get ahold of me and that has made a huge difference with these. With Phone Calls, Facebook messages, Twitter, and Email I do not consider these a high priority. I do not stop what I am doing to look at these messages. I would say 99% of my phone calls goto voice mail. This is usually because throughout my day I am either talking to someone in person or on the phone already. If someone leaves a message they are transcribed by a service I use called phonetag and then emailed to me where I usually email the person back later. I try my best with email and twitter to respond to everyone who asks me a question. With over 25k followers and gaining a few hundred a day this is a pretty difficult task but I usually only get about 25 or so questions a day that I can fire back at. I really like twitter and email because I can respond when I want to. It is not intrusive on my day. So that's my thoughts on communication. How do you handle it?