voice mail is for people who are not me

[jlh]

I've gotten to the point where I pretty much hate the telephone. I only talk to a few people on it regularly, all people who are not local. I used to talk on the phone all the time. And the oddest thing is, most of the people I talk to on the phone are male friends! (This is particularly true now that Mother has gone deaf, so we communicate via email.)

I also hate voice mail—hate it to the extent that I stopped checking it at some point and so Cingular or AT&T or whatever just turned the thing off, and I can't say as I care that much. If you want me, send me a text or an email, please. Anyway, apparently I'm not the only one hating on voice mail—there's a whole piece about it at the NYTimes, which I saw via Jezebel, and the blogger there hates voice mail, too.

At least my anxieties are trendy. I have to agree with that one guy who talks about how there are so many ways to reach anyone—I'd rather just cut off one of them.

Comments

[lillijulianne.livejournal.com]

i'm all hating of these things right now, but i don't know if it's just a preference or part of depression. i used to love talking on the phone. it is interesting that so many people feel oppressed bu the technology, though...

[jlh.livejournal.com]

I think it's that the phone is PAY ATTENTION TO ME RIGHT NOW whereas all the other stuff is, read it when you have the time to read it. Now that everyone has had the chance to be connected 24/7 or whatever, our reaction to it is to become asynchronous except when we're in person of course.