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Indeed, if I want synchronous chat, I'll make a phone call. If I want a response at some point I'll send a message.
by iso1631 6y ago
Indeed, if I want synchronous chat, I'll make a phone call. If I want a response at some point I'll send a message.
- cjrp 6y agoThis was talking on the phone for people who don't like talking on the phone. If that makes any sense.
- ModernMech 6y agoThis makes perfect sense to me. I don't know what it is about talking on the phone, but it's an extremely anxiety inducing experience for me. I'm generally fine with people, but if I have a choice of walking down the street to talk with them in person or call them on the phone, I will make the walk every time. Best I can figure out it stems from being verbally abused as a teenager when I had a job making cold calls. People are vicious on the phone in a way they never are in person. Some people seem to use strangers on the phone as an opportunity to safely vent whatever pent-up rage they have. And even though people are just as vicious online, it just doesn't have the same bite as it does when it's a human voice filled with rage.
- progman32 6y agoI'm the same way, sans the cold calling experience. Would much rather drive down to talk to someone at the counter vs. calling the business from home.
- jki275 6y agoI don’t have the cold calling experience, but I view phone conversation the same way you do. No idea why - and it baffles my extrovert spouse.
- account42 6y ago> Best I can figure out it stems from being verbally abused as a teenager when I had a job making cold calls. People are vicious on the phone in a way they never are in person. Or maybe people are vicious when they receive unsolicited spam calls.