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Call rude: why messaging has replaced phone conversations

Browser The Verge’s Thomas Ricker suggested that in the age of popularity of smartphones to get people to use facetime audio and distract from other things — it means to behave in annoying and inefficient. His words Ricoeur reinforced marketing research. According to the journalist, in 2017 there are plenty of ways to get a person’s attention without distracting them instantly from other classes. A phone call is not suitable for this.

Phone calls have become for many in bad taste. Why call when you can email and get a quick answer? Columnist M24 Anna Lebedev also believes the harmful telephone calls.

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Some time my phone is in silent mode. I rarely hear live voices. But almost every couple of hours reading comments in Instagram from my friends, trying to open the WhatsApp notifications and to reply to Facebook Messenger.

Even mom, for which modern technology still that flight to the moon, mastered the smartphone, I was suddenly writing, “hi. How’s it going? Would you mind to take me to the store?”.

Unlike the older generation, to whom everything is new, and they are unable to play with new devices, confident users of social networks write more for speed. But it doesn’t always work.

By the way, at mom’s request, I replied several hours later, when freed from their cases. Somehow not with his hands was to slide your finger across the letters. She would call me as soon as the thought came to write, it would have been much faster.

Hey! How’s it going? What’s new? – I write his former colleague, who had not seen for several years. The reason to write was her updated status – a sad poem on the theme of love. Immediately call was kind of awkward, because since our paths diverged, we learn about each other thanks to the world wide web.

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Hi. All is well, in a nutshell answers I friend. Then says that I bought tickets to the theater, and on weekends with his son would go jump on the trampoline.
– How are you? – I receive a sign of courtesy.

Okay. We must somehow meet.

– Yes, definitely. Let’s charge in a week.

And so goes week by week… Some people think that phone calls increase the chance of meeting you twice and even the second. But it’s not. If you desire to meet in person not for any reason, though you ring up, nothing happens.

One of my friend always simply responds to messages in social networks, preferring to communicate only by phone. Did not call – I do not want to see.

For some phone calls – attention to the sign. One of these friends after the friendly get-togethers, I wrote: “Thank you very much! Everything was very tasty. Want you to come back”. In response, we received the sad smile and the request to always call personally because it is much nicer any letters.

– You’re still pigeons to me send. Why are you calling? Come on out to the network. – as I overheard in a dialogue between the lovers.

– I want to hear your voice, to breathe into a tube. For me it’s like that hug.

– So come on in Skype! Breathe there, look at each other. Telephone calls are so last century! Now look at you. You modern from head to toe and talk like a old woman with a cot in hand, ridden panic attack, because it doesn’t know which button to push.

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Another method of communication – voice messages. Send your friend a photo from our family walk, and in response to receiving the voice file: “Oh, you great walk! Well done!”

And that’s all. Short, clear, without words-parasites like “that”, “well”, “is”, “shorter”. From the point of view of the linguistics of the voice message just a treasure! They will not see errors in the words and missing commas. But to perceive them as a way of communication – it’s nonsense.

Frequent calls can be a problem in the workflow. Here I would like to Express special gratitude to all the messengers that exist for the ability to create chat rooms and communicate promptly. In this case, the correspondence is much more effective than any calls.

Don’t get me wrong: the conversation is still important. I would like to know about an important event in the life of a close friend through SMS. But if you want to tell about your engagement, let us for completeness of feelings to hold a video conference. Can FaceTime, Hangouts, or Skype if you like. Or Line or WeChat if you are in Asia. Otherwise, send me a link to a map of where we will meet and I will gladly treat you to coffee while we behave as full-fledged people.

According to a recent study of the global telecommunications markets, by Ericsson, for a quarter of smartphone owners in Japan do not use voice calls. This is due to the established culture text communication in Asian countries: in Japan, popular e-mail, and, for example, in South Korea — a mobile messenger.

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While the West is somewhat behind in this respect from Asia — largely because of the proliferation of subscription plans with unlimited voice communication — where consumption is shifting towards mobile Internet. This can be noted in the advertising of mobile operators: a few years ago they moved EN masse from the promotion cheap calls to mobile Internet packages.

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