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  • sem@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneRule
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    2 days ago

    I mean, yeah? But also some people have the job to answer your call, like at doctor’s offices. So it should not cause anxiety to call them, yet it does.

    And sometimes having a conversation via voice (or even better, face to face) is faster than a text exchange, but still, we’re not used to it.


  • sem@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneRule
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    3 days ago

    So like I am trying to understand why we are this way. When we grew up, adults used home phones, and if we wanted to call our friends we’d have to talk to an adult on the other end before they’d let us, and adults in general are pretty scary, with stranger danger and everything. And anyway, you could just use AIM. So when cell phones came out we all texted.

    But when Boomers and Gen X were growing up, they didn’t have AIM so they had to adapt to the phone at a young age out of necessity, so they can deal with it better than we can.

    Does that make sense?






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