tl;dr: "I guess I usually just assume that it's probably not that important if you didn't text me, and you didn't send me a message on Facebook" "So for them

tl;dr: "I guess I usually just assume that it's probably not that important if you didn't text me, and you didn't send me a message on Facebook" "So for them if a voice mail isn't practical — which most of the time it isn't — and there's a more practical way of delivering the same information, they're gonna go for that." This is pretty much the whole ballgame. And a textbook-sounding example of Darwinism. A person can only do a maximum of N things in time t. There are an ever-growing (probably exponentially growing) number of way to communicate. Spending an outsize amount of time on a low-information-dense medium makes increasingly little sense. There are almost certainly other ways to accomplish whatever the allure is.