I had an interesting thought the other day about phone calls. For some people they can be scary, daunting, not knowing what to say and dreading freezing and not being able to answer a question or think of something to respond. For others it is second nature, an essential part of their working life.
I remember back to when I was in high school, scary to think that it was 5 years ago. I recall hour long and more phone calls with friends after school and/or after dinner even when I've spent all day with them. Since finishing high school this seems to have changed, and I wonder if it is just me. Instead I am able to see what my friends are up to every moment of the day via social networking. It started with MSN, instant messaging, then progressed to MySpace, then Facebook, and in the future it might be Twitter and Google+ or something else that is developed.
So now, in the age of social networking, have we lost the skill of a social phone call for the sake of a phone call?
