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> Now, if someone calls me on the phone, I’m like, “How violent of you to call me.” I am twenty years their junior, but good god that made me feel old. Is it p
by xethos 3y ago
> Now, if someone calls me on the phone, I’m like, “How violent of you to call me.”
I am twenty years their junior, but good god that made me feel old. Is it primarily how rare phone calls are (albeit coupled with lack of body-language and real-time decision-making, but still) that makes so many young people in their twenties fear them?
- ThalesX 3y agoI'm in my mid 30s and I don't fear them. I dislike them. I don't want to be interrupted from whatever I am doing to answer a phone call that could have been a message. I don't care about your body language or the need for real-time decision making unless it's something truly important to me, like a family matter.
- gnz11 3y agoI understand that feeling. Phone calls aren’t the first order of communication anymore so when it does happen it’s either a telemarketer, scam call or potentially someone with bad news.
- shrimp_emoji 3y agoKnocks at the door are even scarier. It's just the irresistibly impending and involuntary socialization that's scary. I assume it's an evolutionary thing, like dogs being afraid of thunder.