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Obviously, when I say "my hatred for phones" I am actually typing this on a phone. I love phones in the modern sense of small but hugely powerful portable computers. In the older sense of a dumb interruptive synchronous audio-only communication device, I hate phones and always will.
@regordane I agree and disagree. I generally don't like being called or having to make calls, but there was something magical about a phone back in the POTS days. Maybe it was the static, or maybe it was that you could see the wire going into the wall, and knew it snaked outside the house, into the ground, and off into a great expanse of tangles. And Jeesus do I hate having a smartphone. SMS was great, but the biggest mistake humanity ever made was taking MSN/AIM/ICQ/etc. out of the home...
@regordane ...office and putting it in our pockets, always on, with read receipts and the expectation that you're available. The beauty of instant messaging back in the 2000's was that you logged on to talk to people, so people were willing to have lengthy conversations, and then you logged off when you wanted to do something else. Now, even my best friend and I keep it short, because hey, idk if you're at work, or fighting with your s/o, or just don't feel like chatting... you're *always on*