What if you run out of things to say on the phone..? *awkward silence*

Tulika Agrawal
Marketing in the Age of Digital
3 min readOct 16, 2019

If you avoid phone calls, you’re missing out. Here’s why?

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“Culturally, we’re moving away from phone conversations — but they’re often the best part of your day”

ABOUT THE ARTICLE:

Phone calls are more intimate. They make you laugh and talk in the moment without having to think too much like you have to before sending a text message.

Phone conversation essentially mean that the other person is important and that they have time for each other in their busy hectic schedules.

When we converse with individuals we care about regardless of whether face to face or via telephone we realize that our mind discharges oxytocin. Oxytocin is answerable for that sentiment of being close and associated with somebody. What’s more, it doesn’t simply make us bond with individuals, it additionally makes us feel much improved, by decreasing the degrees of stress hormones, similar to cortisol, in our body.

MY THOUGHTS ON THE ARTICLE:

The voice is one of our most dominant instruments, planned not exclusively to convey yet additionally to construct closeness. Our voices pass on feeling so viably that we can distinguish feelings in discourse in any event, when the words themselves are muted by dividers. The voice shows whether you are genuine.

Additionally phone calls made by individuals feel needed, required and included.

Text messaging is not personal, don’t kid yourself.

Truly! When calling, you can’t thoroughly consider a sharp reaction like you can with messaging but talking over the telephone implies that you’re giving more thoughtfulness regarding the individual on the opposite end than if you were simply messaging them.

A phone call shows that someone is dedicating time and one’s undivided attention to a conversation.

With such a significant number of advanced roads now accessible for contacting somebody, the issue with telephone calls isn’t that they’re badly arranged. It’s that they’re getting traditional in todays era. Particularly for youngsters who in general utilize their mobile phone always. A phone call may in any case convey an increasingly unequivocal interest for consideration toward the other individual.

Talking on the telephone gives the euphoria of unreviewable, unforwardable, unsearchable discourse. In the event that something turns out somewhat strange, there’s no record of it.

Wouldn’t you prefer to hear your friend actually laughing rather than read “Hahahaha” and wonder if it’s really happening on the other end?

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