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It's not clear if you talk about instant messaging or social networks - there is nothing in smartphones themselves that differentiates them from "dumb" phones a
by dvfjsdhgfv 5y ago
It's not clear if you talk about instant messaging or social networks - there is nothing in smartphones themselves that differentiates them from "dumb" phones as far as ignoring others is concerned.
- Frost1x 5y agoI think the main discerning function is that most smart phone communication mechanisms are asynchronous first. For traditional dumb phones, the only async feature was really voice-mail and message recorder systems which, from my experience, lead right back to synchronous communication ("call me back please"). With the advent of SMS, we slowly pushed more into the world of async and people learned how to find more and more socially acceptable ways to increase those time delays to the point of ignoring. For myself, almost all of my comms on my phone are async. Synchronous communication is now the exception instead of the norm. If you call me, unless you're my family or very close friends, you will go to voice mail and you will be screened.