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If it's urgent, wouldn't it make sense to just call?

• squintychino 13y ago
  It definitely makes sense. But it seems people have forgotten that phones are capable of making phone "calls" and just use the text/internet features.
• Encosia 13y ago
  There's a difference between something urgent and something that's merely time sensitive, I think. In my example of scheduling tennis practice, updates need to be timely, but they aren't urgent enough to warrant spending time on the phone with everyone involved. Firing off a few asynchronous messages actually means the last few people I would have called get the information quicker than if I had called each person individually. Voice calls are great for a lot of things, but are slow, tedious, and unnecessarily single-threaded when it comes to plenty of time sensitive communication needs.