‘So you mean rather than writing something out, you could just talk to somebody from a distance? But that would be so cool. And so much quicker. And so much more real.’

‘Exactly!’

There was a distant time when phone calls were in themselves seen as the cowardly opt-out way of communicating rather than just doing it face to face

Imagine if after decades of just being able to text, phone calls were only invented now.

Everyone would be all over them. But instead the telephone is something used exclusively by sad old people to talk to each other. No self respecting teen would talk when they could text. Or do that even more annoying thing of just leaving a text voice message.

So widespread is this that it’s even become a thing now – ‘ telephobia ’, or phone anxiety, the fear or avoidanc

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