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Please write it
Hand on heart: After how many phone calls do you think: That would have been possible via WhatsApp? At least 90 percent of telephone conversations are drawn out, irrelevant blah blah.
Text messages, on the other hand, get to the point, store the information and can be accessed repeatedly. Group chats offer efficiencies that phone calls will never achieve.
But don’t worry: telephoning won’t die out. Compared to text messaging, it is almost an intimate form of communication. This is appropriate for some occasions: It’s better not to just send your mother a text message for her birthday. This may have unpleasant consequences, a friend told me…
Just say one word
The zeitgeist wants people to stop talking to each other. It’s easier to send a few lines, non-binding, impersonal and without nuanced nuances, the humanizing – that’s what emojis do.
WhatsApp relieves us of any responsibility and any liability. In a clever way, it is subsequently irrelevant whether the recipient has read it; what is important is simply the act of providing information, which relieves one of any further responsibility. The only way to be sure is over the phone.
And what else is only available over the phone (or in person)? A serious answer to a “How are you?” Because you don’t read it in five lines, you hear it in one word.
OÖN-TV asked around in Linz:
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