“Young people say they avoid voice calls because the immediacy of a phone call strips them of the control that they have over the arguably less-intimate pleasures of texting, e-mailing, Facebooking, or tweeting. They even complain that phone calls are by their nature impolite, more of an interruption than the blip of an arriving text.”18 Isn’t it interesting that phone calls represent an interruption, and an intimate kind of interruption at that? As more-mediated communication becomes the norm (think text messaging), less-mediated contact (the telephone) becomes more intimate and, therefore,
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