What you are saying totally makes sense. A phone call is a brief, observable interruption where you can sort of follow along with how close it is to ending. Th

What you are saying totally makes sense. A phone call is a brief, observable interruption where you can sort of follow along with how close it is to ending. The issue with getting rid of pagers is that it means people are now texting using a special app, rather than calling. (I should have been more clear about that detail.) I think that staring quietly at your phone is a little bit more fraught than answering a page or a call.