Maybe it's just my friends, but does anyone get the awkward text that reads "Call me" and when you call you ask why didn't you just call me in the first place?
I dont know why this bothers me so much, but it ties in the my artifact selection when I go into how technology is ruining our social skills. I say this because when I ask different people why didn't you just call me in the first place, why did you send a text as if it were some sort of prompt or request. I usually get the following responses:
"Well I didn't want to call and you not answer"
It seems to me, like the more technological advance our world becomes the more methods people have to hide behind them. This to me sounds like a stretch to the fear of being let down, rejection. As if the person would call and when they didn't receive a response, their whole life would be shattered. Come on! Or is it that thirty seconds it took to get to my voicemail is a total waste of time that could of been spent updating your facebook, I dont get it.
OR
"Well I didn't know if you were busy or could talk"
Again, what happened to the days before the world of text messaging when someone HAD to call to find out if someone was busy or not. There were no pre-calls to the call saying "Hey Im going to call you in thirty seconds will you be free" No! You simply just called someone and if they answered you would be able to determine in in 10 seconds whether the conversation was going to go anywhere. Either directly by the sound of the speaker enlightened to hear from you and continues the conversation or indirectly by their distracted or monotone voice that lead you to presume the convo was dead from the start...
Maybe Im overreacting, maybe it is a good thing for both parties. Say you honestly dont want to talk to the person , you too can save face by letting them down with a quick text message back
"Sorry...I have to umm,...wash my hair...."
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