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> a lot of them have a call phobia

Yep, that's me. I hate phone calls. I don't see phone calls as a natural human interaction at all and they make me really uncomfortable. I never pick up my phone but am almost always available for text messages.

No issues with video call or face to face chat though, so that's not that I find human interactions toxic. But phone calls are something I hate to do. They somehow feel too intrusive and too intimate.

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Thats really interesting to me as a gen x'er. Grew up largely before the internet was a thing. I'm in the complete opposite opinion. I find face chat to be intrusive and too intimate. For what could simply handled over voice, no need to see my face or surroundings.

We live largely on zoom these days, and less and less people have their cameras on and they are more like voice calls. I really don't see the difference between this and a phone call

Same. Multinational company, no one uses face / camera unless we need to. Uses up more bandwidth, and calls with China or Brazil are already flakey enough as it is.

Face chat is for friends and family; for business I don't want or need to see your face.

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