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Personally, I loathe the telephone. I hate it when the house phone or my cellphone rings (or lights up, in the case of my cellphone, as I tend to keep it perpetually on silent/no vibrate mode these days), partly because I know that it's almost assuredly going to be some spammer/telemarketer/survey/whatever that I can safely ignore, which is the case 99.999% of the time, but partly because it might be someone I actually know, such that I would have to get up and go to the phone (or pick up my cellphone, if that's the case) and answer the phone (or call them back, more likely) and actually talk to someone. Blugh. I never look forward to getting a phone call, on those rare occasions when I am expecting one. I'm not sure what I hate more, honestly... waiting for such a call that I'm expecting or getting such a call out of the blue that I wasn't expecting. They both suck, but the unexpected ones are maybe slightly more irksome and even anxiety-inducing, because I always initially expect it to be bad news of some sort. I never look forward to making a phone call, on the extremely rare occasions that I'm forced to make a phone call, for whatever reason. It's dreadful. I've never made a "video call," but I'm pretty sure that I would hate those even more than mere voice calls. Basically, as far as I am concerned, the very concept of the telephone (smart or otherwise) can die forever.
I also hate sending/receiving texts on my phone. For me, it's email, this blog, and Twitter (until I get completely sick of Twitter and abandon it again, which may very well happen, and possibly sooner rather than later), and that's pretty much it (via my desktop PC, that is, not via phone, as I hardly ever use the smart phone I do have for anything beyond maybe playing a game on it, once every other blue moon or so). I think I prefer the blog/Twitter, at least when I'm using them merely to blast my thoughts out into the ether, without any concrete expectation of a reply.
Have I mentioned that I'm a fairly asocial person, generally speaking (and have become more so in more recent years)? Not necessarily antisocial, but definitely asocial (and there is a difference). I'm pretty sure I've mentioned that in the past on more than one occasion. ¬_¬
Personally, I loathe the telephone. I hate it when the house phone or my cellphone rings (or lights up, in the case of my cellphone, as I tend to keep it perpetually on silent/no vibrate mode these days), partly because I know that it's almost assuredly going to be some spammer/telemarketer/survey/whatever that I can safely ignore, which is the case 99.999% of the time, but partly because it might be someone I actually know, such that I would have to get up and go to the phone (or pick up my cellphone, if that's the case) and answer the phone (or call them back, more likely) and actually talk to someone. Blugh. I never look forward to getting a phone call, on those rare occasions when I am expecting one. I'm not sure what I hate more, honestly... waiting for such a call that I'm expecting or getting such a call out of the blue that I wasn't expecting. They both suck, but the unexpected ones are maybe slightly more irksome and even anxiety-inducing, because I always initially expect it to be bad news of some sort. I never look forward to making a phone call, on the extremely rare occasions that I'm forced to make a phone call, for whatever reason. It's dreadful. I've never made a "video call," but I'm pretty sure that I would hate those even more than mere voice calls. Basically, as far as I am concerned, the very concept of the telephone (smart or otherwise) can die forever.
I also hate sending/receiving texts on my phone. For me, it's email, this blog, and Twitter (until I get completely sick of Twitter and abandon it again, which may very well happen, and possibly sooner rather than later), and that's pretty much it (via my desktop PC, that is, not via phone, as I hardly ever use the smart phone I do have for anything beyond maybe playing a game on it, once every other blue moon or so). I think I prefer the blog/Twitter, at least when I'm using them merely to blast my thoughts out into the ether, without any concrete expectation of a reply.
Have I mentioned that I'm a fairly asocial person, generally speaking (and have become more so in more recent years)? Not necessarily antisocial, but definitely asocial (and there is a difference). I'm pretty sure I've mentioned that in the past on more than one occasion. ¬_¬
