Board:   [fsxNet] fsx General
Subject: Re: Quitting the smartphone
From:    Adept(21:2/108)
Date:    Thu Aug 20, 2026 07:37

 At>  > If someone wants your attention, have them call you.
 At> MM>
 At> MM> I'm just the opposite.  I hate voice calls.  Texting gets my attention
 At> MM> quicker.
 At>
 At> To each his own... Some people I know enjoy spending time typing
 At> paragraphs of text nonsense that I ignore as it could have been
 At> articulated verbally in less time and got my limited attention span
 At> better.

I hate voice calls for a variety of reasons, and like text for a variety of reasons.

Voice calls:
Cause me anxiety
Require immediate shifting to call
May be something I'm unprepared for
May come with a video component that I'm unprepared for
Have a greater chance that I mis-state something

Text:
Is what I grew up with
Allows for time shifting
Can be edited to make it better
Gives me time to think through the topic
Lowers the chance that I'm mis-stating something

Mind you, you don't get verbal tone with text, and lots of people read extra tone into text when it isn't there. So I know it's not all positive.

And, yeah, low attention span is hard. Especially when people ask questions that I had already typed out an answer for.

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