In Personal and Professional Interactions
In her article published in the New York Times. “Don’t Call Me, I Won’t Call You,” Pamela Paul examines the widespread acceptance of electronic communication over telephone calling. In fact, she illustrates with vivid examples how phone calling has come to be viewed as annoying and intrusive. Indeed, interpersonal communication has undergone fundamental changes from the time the telephone became part of everyday life in the late nineteenth century up to the advent of smartphones and social media in the twenty-first century. The rapid pace of life most people live today has favored electronic communication, e.g., text ...
