It's very interesting how different everyone's experiences are. I also hate phones, although it's never risen to the level of a phone phobia. I didn't get a mobile phone until 2012, or a smart phone till 2015 - by which point I was really getting it to use the internet rather than to call people.
Through work experience I've gotten a lot better at calling people, though I will still avoid calling them without a prior appointment if at all possible. But I find I'm much, much happier to ring people via Skype whether on my laptop or on my mobile, because it doesn't seem like a "phone" to me, it's some other means of communication.
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Date: 2018-07-26 07:34 am (UTC)Through work experience I've gotten a lot better at calling people, though I will still avoid calling them without a prior appointment if at all possible. But I find I'm much, much happier to ring people via Skype whether on my laptop or on my mobile, because it doesn't seem like a "phone" to me, it's some other means of communication.