I would like to be able to do this, but there are concrete reasons that I don’t:
Many of my friends hate phone calls. Outside an emergency, I pretty much have consider calling my friends not to be an option unless I remember the specific person saying otherwise. (I, on the other hand, can’t have a spontaneous conversation that’s any good over text messages.)
Right before I moved to a different area a few years ago, I asked a few friends if I could call them sometimes, and the only answer I got was ‘I don’t do phone calls’
Talking to a friend I haven’t met in 1-2 years is fine and good. With someone I haven’t met in 4-6 years, however, the usual result is that I feel like the shared context should still be there, but it mostly isn’t, which doesn’t make for good conversations.
Probably there’s some kind of better conversational approach that could solve this, but I don’t know it.
I would like to be able to do this, but there are concrete reasons that I don’t:
Many of my friends hate phone calls. Outside an emergency, I pretty much have consider calling my friends not to be an option unless I remember the specific person saying otherwise. (I, on the other hand, can’t have a spontaneous conversation that’s any good over text messages.)
Right before I moved to a different area a few years ago, I asked a few friends if I could call them sometimes, and the only answer I got was ‘I don’t do phone calls’
Talking to a friend I haven’t met in 1-2 years is fine and good. With someone I haven’t met in 4-6 years, however, the usual result is that I feel like the shared context should still be there, but it mostly isn’t, which doesn’t make for good conversations.
Probably there’s some kind of better conversational approach that could solve this, but I don’t know it.