If you avoid phone calls, you're missing out. Here's why | Melanie Tait
Culturally, we’re moving away from phone conversations – but they’re often the best part of my day
I’ve taken to switching my phone’s ringer on between 8.30pm and 10.30pm on a week night. It feels like a dangerous act, for someone who used to be part of the “no phone calls allowed” brigade.
There are lots of things to panic about with a phone call, chief among them being: what if we run out of things to say, and there’s, God forbid, silence?
There’s no curation of the witty comeback. There’s no inserting the perfect emoji. It’s two human beings, inside each other’s ear, trying to figure each other out and connect.
Over the past few months,
