I don't like the phone. I've never understood people who could be on the phone for hours at a time. Maybe because I consider the phone a tool, not a toy.
Helps to prove the point. Men talk to communicate information, women talk just to be talking. It’s a physiological/chemistry thing with them. Thus, way, way back when, women sitting together, cuddling their babies, started the first telephone conversation as a soothing brain chemistry process when the male hunters were out in the forest, still grunting to each other with hand gestures as an additional communication process.
It is said that there are 3 types of male archetypes : hunter, farmer, shepherd. Do men whisper to their horses, plants, sheep? Meanwhilst, back home, what do women do, just sit around like rag dolls? The guy out on the job is focussed on that JOB, but the woman at home, for her activity outlet TALKS.
In egypt hand/body language is a vital part of the whole communication process, whereas an american woman can spend HOURS on the phone talking about nothing at all. I’m no clinical psychiatrist but in that question : who invented language, my $2 is on women. Talking is MORE than simple communication to the fairer sex.