Hi, you've reached the voicemail of Yasmin Rufo. Please don't leave a message as I won't listen to it or call you back. Unfortunately that isn't my answerphone message but do I, along with most Gen Z and millennials, wish it was? Absolutely.
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... A recent survey found a quarter of people aged 18 to 34 never answer the phone - respondents say they ignore the ringing, respond via text or search the number online if they don't recognise it.
The Uswitch survey of 2,000 people also found that nearly 70% of 18-34s prefer a text to a phone call.
For older generations, talking on the phone is normal - my parents spent their teenage years fighting with their siblings over the landline in the corridor only to then have their entire family listen in to their conversations.
I used the landline for business calls only in the late nineties
In contrast, my teenage years were spent texting.
From the moment I received my pink flip Nokia on my 13th birthday, I was obsessed with texting.
I would spend every evening after school formulating 160-character texts to my friends, removing every unnecessary space and vowel until the message resembled jumbled up consonants even GCHQ[1] would struggle to decipher. ...
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1 - GCHQ - We are the UK's intelligence, security and cyber agency. Our mission is to help keep the country safe.
www.gchq.gov.uk
@#5
Great tune.
And so apropos.
I had not known of the Nerves original.
thx.
The Nerves
en.wikipedia.org
... Despite their limited lifespan and discography, the Nerves remain notable for many reasons.
They were the founding vanguard of the Los Angeles punk and pop scenes that eventually produced the Knack, the Beat and the Plimsouls. ...
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