> 3) Reaching out. To mean making contact. What is wrong with, I wrote to x, I called Y etc.

As a young nonnative whipper snapper I think reaching out kinda makes sense in the modern world. We’re connected to people in so many ways simultaneously that the way in which we reached out is irrelevant and often forgotten. I don’t always know if I called, wrote, emailed, texted, slacked, tweeted, messengered or carrier pigeoned you. I just know I reached out.

And before you say most of those are a form of writing, I think they’re often perceived as closer to talking (in person almost) than to writing.