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[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Not just young people. I am 48, and if I get a call from my mom I would’ve thought something happened to my dad.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yep. Basically any generation that grew up with texting and chat kinda leans this way... so millennials and younger. But also some gen x.

Phone calls are for things that can't wait and need the other person to drop what they're doing, and things urgent like that tend to be medical or work stuff. Or things time sensitive in another way.

Demanding the other person stop what they're doing to attend to you immediately is considered kinda rude for minor topics when such an easy and less pushy alternative is available.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

That's funny, because my mom loses her shit if I don't respond to her text message within 15 minutes. Then she rants on how her family abandoned her and she may as well be dead.

Every damn time.

She doesn't call anymore though.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Yep same. I text and Snapchat with my mom daily. If she calls, shit went down.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's funny because my mom just asked me when she can call me this morning and I'm going oh fucking he'll I just started my vacation this better be something fucking stupid like if I can order her a grout cleaner. We usually texts. She knows I don't answer calls and if it's really important she can call twice. My job has been on the phone since I was in college so the last thing I want to do is talk on the phone.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

And, was it just a grout cleaner?