Call Your Friends (Instead of Always Relying on Texts)

Nina Badzin
3 min readJul 29, 2019

Do you rely almost entirely on texts and emails to communicate with friends? Like many people with a smartphone, I’ve leaned towards texting and emailing, but I’ve been working on fitting phone calls back into my life.

It’s hard to deny that the ease of texts and emails comes at the expense of intimacy. Sure, with texts and emails (and social media’s various messages…

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Nina Badzin

Conversations about friendship in my podcast, DEAR NINA. Co-founder of the creative writing groups at ModernWell in Minneapolis