The first minute of every phone call is torture now

Re:The first minute of every phone call is torture now by vineyardmike on Wednesday November 02, 2022 @01:57PM (#33440192)

I’m going to go out on a limb and guess 17 year olds who can’t call people aren’t the reason for societies problems. Certainly less to blame than the 45yo’s who bemoan them.

Every generation thought that society was collapsing. Despite that, time progresses, people age out of the population and a new generation is born. And society (mostly) doesn’t collapse.

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Re:The first minute of every phone call is torture now by bobsmooth on Wednesday November 02, 2022 @04:29PM (#33442511)

Those 17 year olds grow up into adults with the same unaddressed anxieties.

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Re:The first minute of every phone call is torture now by vineyardmike on Wednesday November 02, 2022 @04:36PM (#33442591)

When I was 17 I spent like an hour emailing a teacher telling her I’d be late on an assignment by a day. Because I was very anxious about writing an email to a “superior” and didn’t know how it’d go, or what the “right” email looked like.

Now I email hundreds of times a day, and have constantly shifted deadlines to no professional detriment. I still get nervous emailing a new important person, but you do it anyways.

Do people really forget what it’s like being young? Sometimes you just grow up and move on.

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