how often do you call your friends?

[tellytubby20]

with yet another lockdown - feeling a bit sad about the whole thing. also realised that i hardly ever speak on the phone with my friends. chat to lots of them on whatsapp sometimes daily but most are not actually all that keen to talk on the phone and we only chat every few months. usually thats fine, but at this time i sometimes just miss talking to people. how often does everyone else talk on the phone to your friends?

I have one friend that I speak to every other day.
Another every couple of weeks.
And a group of three I have WhatsApp coffee with every Saturday.
It helps.

Never ever. I hate chatting on the phone. I'm in WhatsApp contact every day though.

I don't. We're all 'in person' people. We exchange the occasional WhatsApp to make sure all's running smoothly and look forward to hitting bars/restaurants and anywhere else to mingle again soon

Never. I'm not a phone chat person.
Maybe once or twice a week message/whatsapp chat with my neighbour but usually to plan something.

Never! I hate speaking on the phone. Text conversations and group messages are what have kept my friendships going this last year.

Never, I hate talking on the phone. I did a few House party/ FaceTime things when the last lockdown happens, initially but I’m not bothering this time. I speak to all my friends on WhatsApp regularly and that’s fine by me. Never get the obsession with calling people tbh.

Chat to my two best friends every other day same as lock down in March plus loads of texts in between. Other friends text, email and Whatsapp message several times a week.

Two elderly aunts and uncles, phone once a week or so as one set don't have kids that live nearby so are on their own.

Same as you - love chatting on messenger, hate chatting on the phone. Very, very occasionally (maybe 2 times a year), myself and my school friends have a facetime chat as a catch up, but other than that, unless it's something urgent I never phone.

Even if it is urgent, I usually message them first and ask if they're free and say its urgent. If they reply straight away, I'll just talk about it over messenger instead, but after a few mins I'd call instead.

I very occasionally talk on the phone to my mum. But I usually message her instead too.

Also, to add, I find voicenotes on Whatsapp a good compromise. Though I feel like a bit of a twonk recording them, at least it’s easier than messaging if you’ve got a lot to say, but it’s not restrictive and everyone can reply as and when they want and take their time over a response.

I think that’s what I hate about phone calls, I just find them so restrictive as you can’t really get anything else done and then there’s the awkward trying to get off the phone if they’re rabbiting on and you need to be somewhere/ do something .

Almost never, I don't like talking on the phone. We speak all day via Whatsapp, though.

I've got one friend who calls me for a chat when she's walking somewhere, and I can't stand it! Partly because she only does it when she's en route somewhere so I feel like I've been drafted in as entertainment for her, and partly because I just don't like talking on the phone unless I have to for work.

Never.

Seconding the voice notes, also! Can listen in your own time, but more human than just words on a screen :)

Very rarely, we have a group call with four of us once a week and as we're now in lockdown I'll probably speak to another friend about once a week when we would normally have met up. Everything else will be WhatsApp. I HATE talking on the phone (which my mum just can't understand, she just rings for a chat and I spend the whole call waiting for a 'proper' reason!)

Never. I hate “chatting” on the phone, except to my parents, which I have no alternative for as they live far away.

I’ll text you all day long but I’ll never call. A good friend wrote in her Christmas card that she’ll “ring soon for a chat” and it nearly ruined my Christmas!

Never. We use WhatsApp, messenger etc to send occasional messages. I have one friend I meet up every week (when not in lockdown) and others that I meet once a year due to distance. I speak to my dsis on the phone maybe once a fortnight. We're very close though but living in different countries.

Never-I hate talking on the phone. I don’t know that I have ever spoken to my closest friend on the phone and we’ve been friends for well over 20 years!

We see each other regularly during normal times and speak on WhatsApp regularly throughout the day. Have done loads of family Zoom things too.

I check in regularly, there's one friend who likes to talk for a long time so I ring her when I have a lot of housework.

I used to love it but technology has changed me and I seem to only be able to do it on speaker phone whilst getting on with something else now.

I love to chat but in person over coffee/wine. If I really need to call a friend I tend to try and do it while walking. Sitting on the sofa having a long batter on the phone seems so pointless now (which does make me sad).

Never!

Every few weeks. We schedule it in to make it a phone call with a coffee, as if we were meeting for coffee.

We message every few days but rarely ring which suits everyone

ok - so maybe my friends are not that weird after all. i just keep reading on MN how often everyone chats to their friends, but i guess they mean Whatsapp...though i still miss speaking to people