Phone call or Text ?

[Anonymous]

I refuse to have a conversation over text. I type all day for work. I don't want to do it for "fun" also. But I like to set a time to talk, so I can be ready.

[Anonymous]

For catch ups

Text saying, Hey, it's been a while. Let's catch up. When's a good time to call?

That way I know it's nothing super urgent.

[Anonymous]

Text. I'm not a fan of phone calls at all.

[Anonymous]

Text. If extensive, then text to check when good time to call.

I do have one acquaintance who just cold calls because she doesn’t like text and I don’t love that.

[Anonymous]

I virtually never answer the phone. People need to text me.

[Anonymous]

Call, I can't stand texting unless it just a quick question there is no way you can have good conversation via text.

[Anonymous]

Phone calls. Texting requires focus, typing etc - it feels like work. Talking is more fun, more immediate, and I can do things like drive, wash the dishes, fold laundry, grocery shop etc while chatting.

I love talking to the people I know and I wish more people would call!

[Anonymous]

Most friends texts.
One specific friend phone calls

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Phone calls. Texting requires focus, typing etc - it feels like work. Talking is more fun, more immediate, and I can do things like drive, wash the dishes, fold laundry, grocery shop etc while chatting.

I love talking to the people I know and I wish more people would call!

I agree! Texting is so time consuming because it drags out over a longer time to say even less and you don’t have your hands free and can’t look away from your screen. People need to grow up and get over their anxieties about phone calls. Just don’t answer if you are busy. What’s the problem?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Text. You have time to read it, absorb it, and think about how to respond. I don’t mind talking on the phone - unlike my Gen Z kid, who hates talking on the phone - but I am kind of offended by a call out of nowhere. My sister and I begin every call with, “There’s nothing wrong!”

I get it, but think about how far we’ve devolved as a society that we are offended by a call from a friend or relative.

I’m Gen X, so I remember life before cell phones when your landline would ring and you’d stay on the phone for hours.

We’ve really lost an important connection when we shifted to cell phones and the internet.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Text. You have time to read it, absorb it, and think about how to respond. I don’t mind talking on the phone - unlike my Gen Z kid, who hates talking on the phone - but I am kind of offended by a call out of nowhere. My sister and I begin every call with, “There’s nothing wrong!”

I get it, but think about how far we’ve devolved as a society that we are offended by a call from a friend or relative.

I’m Gen X, so I remember life before cell phones when your landline would ring and you’d stay on the phone for hours.

We’ve really lost an important connection when we shifted to cell phones and the internet.

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Remember cords that stretched so far that you could walk from the kitchen to the living room? We talked for hours back then and it was wonderful!