• jatone@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    5 days ago

    Its simpler than that. Texting is asynchronous you always know the person will be able to respond without having to coordinate availability with you.

    Its just a straight up more polite acknowledgement that the other person’s time is valuable abd you dont have a right to it.

    • sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      5 days ago

      I mean, yeah? But also some people have the job to answer your call, like at doctor’s offices. So it should not cause anxiety to call them, yet it does.

      And sometimes having a conversation via voice (or even better, face to face) is faster than a text exchange, but still, we’re not used to it.