I feel like this is a carryover from text messaging, where people ask things like “Hey! What’s new?” Personally, I also hate that kind of text interaction. I v

I feel like this is a carryover from text messaging, where people ask things like “Hey! What’s new?” Personally, I also hate that kind of text interaction. I vastly prefer a phone call for catching up, because at least each party’s attention is fully on each other and there’s a defined end to the conversation. I’m probably in a shrinking minority with that opinion, having grown up in a time when phone calls were ubiquitous. But when someone’s glued to their phone because they don’t want to be perceived as replying too slowly, what’s the point of texting?