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BrainBurner  ·  3145 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Don't Hate the Phone Call, Hate the Phone

What an odd read. An argument was made that one piece of telephonic machinery is superior (in terms of human connection) to another. I'm sure someone published a similar article long ago saying that face to face chats are superior in many ways to those new fangled telephones. It will ruin the children! I do appreciate the design and technological differences in between cell phones and landlines that the author outlined, but I really don't buy his argument that humanity is worse off for the new predominance in cell phones. I still observe plenty of my peers still talking on the phone to family and friends, and they seem to have no more issues with call quality than someone with a landline. Text messaging and other apps that the author mentions are just other means of communication. The author comes off as well meaning but out of touch in this article.