• weastie@lemmy.world
    272·
    5 days ago

    Honestly, I hard disagree. Texting is so inefficient. If I want to have a conversation with someone, I just call them. It’s so much easier to just get everything sorted all out at once instead of trying to send messages back and forth and you get distracted and forget to reply. Meh. You can so easily turn a conversation that takes hours, sometimes days into a 2 minute phone call

    • Demdaru@lemmy.world
      4·
      3 days ago

      I understand your point but every single person that said that to me was unable to form their message neatly and efficiently.

      No hello. No asking if it’s okay to ask. Write concisely, state all your questions in first message, drop the masquarade of niceness. People who use that get similiar response - and without the awkward call-like “gimmie a sec, need to check” or worse “let me circle back to it later”. As soon as I get the info, you have. In the meanwhile, you can focus on something else.

      Not saying this applies to you though - simply yoir comment caused a flood of bad memories of call-centric people being unable to use messages, mostly due to laziness.

    • Doomsider@lemmy.world
      4·
      3 days ago

      Texting is great for some things, but you lose a lot in translation. I have seen a lot of arguments that happen over text that would not happened on a voice call.

  • Railison@aussie.zoneEnglish
    182·
    5 days ago

    Modern day phone etiquette: it is impolite to call someone on non-urgent personal business without arranging it.

  • IninewCrow@lemmy.caEnglish
    112·
    5 days ago

    I never answer my phone.

    If it was non urgent, the person calls once, gets mad for a short while and forgets about calling.

    If it was urgent, I’d get more calls, texts, email, video call, knock at the door, mail by post, telegram, stones thrown at my window, smoke signals, naval flash lights in Morse code, carrier pigeons with messages, foxes with messages, police at my door, the local priest at my door, an overhead blimp with a giant sign, an acrobatic aircraft writing a message in the sky or a brick with a piece of paper with a message thrown threw my living room window.