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Originally Posted by Xerxys
Dude, your gonna make me scramble to get a pen and paper to write down an address when you can text it? what about directions and I don't have google maps nearby? C'mon man.
Phone calls are not at all useless but it's not all the time you need to be personal on everything you know.
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after watching 2 people trying to exchange phone numbers via texting for 10 minutes instead of just calling the others' phone or using pen and paper...
also when I call, I'm more mindful of someone else's time and encroaching on that time. Things like email, voicemail, and texting make the assumption that the receiver has the time, gumption and interest in reading a new inbox, or pile of work. "Didn't you read my email?" "I told you that in the voicemail!" "I texted you the information"
That's not effective communication in my book. If I can't guarantee that you HEARD what I said and UNDERSTOOD what idea I was trying to convey, it's a waste of time just jaw jawing or thumb boarding.
So I do not check my voicemail on a regular basis. I don't find it reasonable to have to check my voicemail on my cellphone, work phone, and home phone. I can see who is calling via caller ID and I will call you back. If it's important you can speak directly to me and tell me what you wanted to say. If it's something as simple as... the verbal equivalent of "lolz u should b here its fun." it's a waste of my time.
Apply the same to email. I have a personal email for actual business. Sully it with "You should send this to 5 friends..." and you get put into the spam folder filter.
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