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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. ...

@#2

Nor do I.

I receive mostly texts and emails from friends and family nowadays.

Though, oddly, I still keep my land-line, in addition to my cell.

Though the landline is VOIP, not the real "copper back to the central office" landline of yore.

My VOIP vendor also provides texting capability for that VOIP landline, and I do use that for 2FA.

@#5

Great tune.

And so apropos.

I had not known of the Nerves original.

thx.