What is the role of text in day-to-day life?

Answer 1

If you mean the question as written, i.e. what is role of written material in daily life? -- the answer is that text allows people across distances to readily communicate. It allows for the proliferation of technologies, the construction of multi-regional corporations and cooperation.

If you mean what is the role of texting in daily life? -- the answer is less clear. For many people, it allows them to have a connection to others and binds them to each other almost incessantly.

Answer 2

They help us spell and read