Do people just not ring each other any more, is this normal?

[Gurolou]

All my friends want to text or WhatsApp, it seems to be a thing, I hate it. We are all in our forties and fifties so texting wasn't even a thing for most of our lives. Is this really the same for everyone and just how things are? Because I actually hate texts and WhatsApp it just feels like stuff piling on top of me, and I miss talking to people.

Text messages all the way for me, I hate talking on the phone.

For Me personally I prefer text messages/whatsapp messages just feels easier and I also don’t like talking on the phone. Also dislike voice notes!

Yeah, I'm a old gimmer - nearly 60 - and I CBA to speak on the phone. (Unless it's business/something official...)

WhatsApp all the way for me. I do see the people I message 2-3 times a month though, (adult DC, other family, and 2 BFFs,) so it's not like I never talk to them!

I am mid 30s. Rarely speak on the phone to mates bar one plus my husband. We do voice notes though but it’s mostly WhatsApp !!

I do voice notes on WhatsApp with all my friends. Quicker and easier than texting as you don’t have to type, kind of like a phone call but you can fit little activities in between if you want and have a little bit of time to think of best reply.

WhatsApp /text /email and then people can answer when it suits them. I only ring if it’s time sensitive.

I'm in my 50s. The only people I ever phone are my parents, dsis and dd.

I'm late 60s and never talk on the phone.hate it

I CBA speaking on the phone

Messages all the way

I speak to my mum once a week. Not chatted to anyone else on the phone in over a decade I reckon.

I talk to my mum and my son on the phone.

other than that it’s what’s app all the way.

Ok, so you are all there on your phones. Don't you think it's inefficient? Impersonal? Isolating?

Phone for me. Messages if it isn't important. Voice notes are the spawn of the devil, so no, no and thrice no to them.

60s and don't phone if it can be avoided. Also hate voice notes as have to be somewhere private to listen to them and they take twice as long to read/listen to the same content.

The only people I speak to on the phone are organisations to deal with matters that are too urgent for email, or those that insist on phone calls and don't have any other way to communicate. I mostly use Whatsapp texts for friends, never voice notes, I find phone calls a faff as you need to respond immediately and feel it's a bit rude really to demand that time. I'm 47 and I used to have long phone conversations but I haven't done that for about 15 years.

I’m 50 and only ever phone my parents. It’s text or WhatsApp for everyone else. I hate calling people now. I used to love it when I was younger.

Don't you miss it, at all? I do. I miss just chatting shit.

Not inefficient at all. Can fit it in while doing other things. Doesn't interrupt what I'm doing.

What changed for you, that made you dislike talking to people?

I chat shit with people irl - not on the phone.

I don't mind phone calls if I won't be seeing the person any time soon and there's something we want to chat about. Otherwise, prefer texts to arrange meet ups then talk face to face. I don't like loads of back and forth text conversations though and despise voice notes!
I am in my forties and had a mobile for over 30 years so texting has absolutely been a 'thing' for most of my life

Phone DB and DM, WhatsApp everyone else. Sometimes jump to WhatsApp call, sometimes set a time for a phone call but mostly see people in real life to talk.

Oh man really? My phone pings all the time. The interruptions are constant. I genuinely hate how friendships have become just another interruption.

I always phone people if I’ve got anything to say. If it’s something quick and unimportant I sometimes send a text message or use WhatsApp, but I think messaging is too impersonal most of the time.

I ring my Mum occasionally but that's it! ( I do see her several times a week) Everyone else is WhatsApp. The odd video call on birthdays for family members maybe. Who has half an hour to spare to sit rabbiting on the phone? Also I hate people ringing me randomly. Its always a bad time but you feel you have to chat. Voice notes are the spawn of the devil and should be banned.