Posted on 09/10/2024 9:46:21 AM PDT by DallasBiff
So many things can keep you from seeing your loved ones in person, from busy schedules to long distances to a rather unexpected pandemic. Fortunately, thanks to modern technology, the people we miss are often only a phone call or text message away. But if you're someone who's more prone to typed out messages than verbal ones, you may want to reconsider. According to science, if you want to feel more connected to the people you're talking to, you should call them instead of texting. A new study, published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology, found that communication interactions that included voice, like a phone call or video chat, created stronger social bonds than communication through typing, like text messaging or email. Read on to find out how a call can bridge that gap, and for more things you should never send via type, find out The Most Annoying Text You're Sending All the Time.
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Texting is evil, IMO.
Flame away.
DEI = The Journey “of Experimental Psychology”
I’m retired now, but I spent my whole career on the phone. Communicating.
Now I don’t want to even answer a phone, much less “communicate” with people for no good reason
Put me down for Texts.
And I will sit there and watch your call go to voice mail. My wife and kids were just discussing this last night. 15 years ago, we’d pay actual $$$ to buy a specific ring tone for our calls. Today, I’ll toss that damn thing across the room if it rings. Always, ALWAYS on vibrate. The best time to call me is TEXT MESSAGE.
If it has been a while, and time is not crucial, I like to send a typed or handwritten letter by snail mail. A girl I knew well in college got stomach cancer. I hadn’t kept in touch since marrying, but the handwritten note meant a lot to her. She followed up with a phone call while she was clearly heavily medicated, but the letter set ip a proper goodbye.
No flames. I agree.
It really kills me when some new Gen Z kid starts at my company. They send an email and ask to set up a Teams call to meet me.
I send them my phone number and tell them to call.
No shit, Sherlock.
As far back as I can remember, I hated calling because I thought it would be interrupting the person, since they had to drop whatever they were doing to answer the phone.
At least that’s how I felt about having to answer the phone.
So yes, I prefer texting.
“According to Science”
Are these the same ones that said we came from apes?
That said there was a big bang but now there wasn’t a big bang?
That fluoride was good for our teeth but now is bad for our health?
That said the polar bears were going extinct but now there is more than there ever was?
That said our plant would be dead in 10 years 25 years ago?
That the covid-19 came from bat soup?
That oil was from dinosaur bones?
And now say that we are going to burn up from climate change?
I am just going to call Bull Sh!t and STFU.
I agree. For shy people like me, it’s less intrusive.
Very sorry for the loss of your friend.
Text for business, call for family.
Furthermore, if I don’t recognize the number, I don’t answer, I let it go to voicemail and call back if it’s important.
Exactly. A phone call becomes the highest priority, even if it's a telemarketer. Text messages and email can be read when the recipient is ready.
Same here
all that and there’s no denying the printed word.
Like I need “stronger social bonds” with those callers
..yeah, right.
Let me say I was scared, but at least I was in the backseat.
To quote Sheryl Crow:
Hello it’s me, I’m not at home
If you’d like to reach me, leave me alone
I remember seeing a study long ago indicating that blind people feel far less isolated than profoundly deaf people do.
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