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LOL this is why I usually answer, I can talk via instant message or text...But no phone or video calls. As I hate phone or video calls, I feel shackled to my device and I can't escape it. I find the idea maddening and only do phone calls for official things like dealing with doctors, work, or businesses. If I befriend someone (on the off chance) I ask them if they like phone or video calls with friends casually, if they do, I run.
For work i dont accept calls. Usually.
I prefer having text/email records.
No one can say to me "I did (or didn't) say that".
"I have the receipts right here."
Moose antlers will regrow next year with branches where wounds were made this year.
I prefer written conversations, too, but some people are absolutely useless for asynchronous communication ...
Yep, we all have different communication styles and it is fine, if it had to be a real time conversation. It would have to be over dinner, lunch, or coffee. As I need something to bind me into the moment aside from a conversation. I am a strange creature like that.
I'll do a phone call if it's more efficient but video calls are out of the question. I did them for job interviews during covid because it was useful in that context for us to see each other and twice when I was demoing how to reprogram some devices I support at my current job. But for just day to day social communication? Fuck that. We don't need to see each other unless someone is taking their clothes off.
Same here.