TMN’s Sarah Hepola believes she is the only person who likes talking on the phone anymore.
Putting this here for later because I have a lot to say on this topic and the idea of channels of communication and distracted friendship and The Way We Whatever Now (thanks, required courses for my Comm Studies major). But I will say that even though I tend to be phone-avoidant, I had a lovely chat with a friend on Saturday evening that, despite at the outset being marred by technical difficulties that were so bad I eventually had to switch over to Skype, helped yank me out of a lousy, hung-over mood.
Also—and this might be something I’ve picked up because I’ve edited a lot of Q&As in the past year—if you look at the ways that email interviews read as opposed to phone ones, there’s a WORLD of difference as far as flow and places that the conversation goes (I doubt, for example, that I would have been recommended a live version of O’Spada’s “Pay Off” in an email interview, and yet a phoner I conducted last week ended with just that). Although I should probably put IM correspondence against phoners too for a more one-to-one comparison.
