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lemonsharks ([personal profile] lemonsharks) wrote in [community profile] agonyaunt2021-07-25 02:42 pm
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DEAR ABBY: Recently, family members have started texting to inform me about personal, private matters. When they do, I text back, which sometimes leads to lengthy paragraphs. I wish they’d just call me! I’m beginning to wonder if that’s what they are avoiding. I should add that I am not feuding with my family. Am I wrong? — PERPLEXED IN CONNECTICUT

DEAR PERPLEXED: No, you are not wrong. People have become so enamored of their electronic devices they seem to have forgotten that sometimes it’s more efficient to just TALK to the other party. I know from personal experience that emailing and texting can take far more time than a spoken conversation.
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[personal profile] sathari 2021-07-27 04:12 am (UTC)(link)
First, I'm nth'ing everyone else's comments here: some people prefer asynchronous and/or written communication, and if LW prefers phone conversations for certain types of communication, LW can use their own words and request it.

Second--- okay, any and all of the "kids these days" stuff centered around written communication just makes me want to scream, because, hello, letters used to be a primary form, if not the primary form, of long-distance communication. And freaking telegrams were the "text messaging" of the previous century. So can we just stop with the sneer words about people who happen to like written and/or asynchronous communication, or at least not pretend that it's somehow solely an artifact of current technology in a way that's a priori a bad thing?