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I never wanted a cell phone in the first place. I just needed one when my house burned down. If it were up to me, they would never have existed, and the pay phones would still work. Don't you remember how nice going to the movies used to be?

Hell yeah I should go out more. While I'm out, I want you to leave a message on my answering machine that I will ignore if it doesn't start with a number.

Just because it's normalized doesn't mean it should be. Several decades ago it used to be perfectly normal and polite to smoke in restaurants next to strangers.

Just because making calls is one of the functions of the device in my hands doesn't mean it's its primary function.

If you disagree with the take that unplanned phone calls without an emergency are invasive, imagine this comment is a phone call and you need to answer as soon as I post it, otherwise I'll be quite upset with you not responding.

I think your comment reads quite combative.

I think with the context of the Meme, yes there are some people who call you and you just know its gonna be a huge annoying phone call that you should just avoid and text the person after because some people just wanna talk your ears off.

I dunno if we have to do the: omg millenials/gen alpha is too phone anxious thing.

And sure its called a mobile phone, but as an argument that feels somewhat pedantic nowadays. Primarily its a mobile internet connected computer nowadays I would say. I use the camera/ texting/ social media functions way more than the real phone capabilities. Maybe thats different for you but I don’t think it’s uncommon that its one of the lesser used functions.

Sure if people are too anxious to pick up the phone and it negatively impacts their life they should get help for it. I don’t think we should shame them in that case though. It feels to me like shaming depressed people when they cannot find the energy to shower, which I would similarly feel is inadequate input.

They're on a whitelist. Random numbers are not entitled to your attention on demand.

Yeah, they are lucky to have me. Instant access to me via phonecall is not one of the reasons, but that's fine because they don't need instant access via phonecall.

My friends and family know not to call me unless somebody is dead or dying. It's worked out pretty well so far

Usually friends and family actually care about respecting the wishes of the person they're trying to contact. That concept might be unfamiliar to you.