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Phone’s still great for business…socially, it’s dying

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That headline really means audio-only phone calls.  The (“smart”)phone as the swiss army knife of communications tools will never die.  LONG LIVE THE PHONE!

May I present the evidence?  I call to the stand this blog post by Larry Lisser, titled All I wanted for my birthday was a lousy phone call.

Despite having three phone numbers plus Skype (what? no mention of VSee, Larry?), as well as phones themselves, and lots of friends and family, he received only one, 1, phone call…from his 73 year-old father on a cell phone.  Here’s what he got instead:

14 Skype IM’s

2 BlackBerry Messengers pings

1 BlackBerry Pinning ping

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Phones aren’t phones—call anyway!

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It may not be official, but if you’ve been suspicious that people in their twenties and younger aren’t picking up their phones, you’re right.  There’s a ton of anecdotal evidence to support this (such as this recent ZDnet article).  I started really thinking about this two years ago when I was driving to a twenty-something friend’s house.

I was running late (that’s L.A. traffic for you) and called ahead to say so.  I was a good boy and used my Bluetooth headset.   I also knew the friend was at her house, available to pick up the phone.

I got sent to voicemail.

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