Or even just...call a friend for a chat. Few people are interested in that these days. A few decades ago, you'd even see media where people were chatting on house phones so much that different people in one house would fight over the phone. "Get off the phone" used to mean "stop talking to your friend on the phone."

Here's an article from 1999[1]:

> Although you may think your parents are unreasonable when they tell you to get off the phone after you've "only" been talking two hours, it doesn't have to turn into a big blow-up.

It honestly feels like a lot of people are trying to find excuses to be anti-social these days.

[1] https://www.ucg.org/watch/beyond-today/virtual-christian-mag...