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&lt;/script&gt;</html><description>Telephonophobia is a new term that I recently learned when reading an article in the Wall Street Journal.&#xA0; It means the avoidance of using the phone for a good old phone conversation. I am going to show my age a bit here but the lack of willingness of our younger generations to pick up the phone and talk to someone drives me crazy.&#xA0; The article says that the younger generations actually experience anxiety with placing a phone call.&#xA0; Likewise, the roadblocks that companies put in place to prevent you from speaking to a human to help resolve an issue drives me over the cliff. During my professional life working for a major pharma company, I could see this evolving.&#xA0; With the explosion of email, employees communicated primarily via email instead of by phone and that further evolved with text messaging and instant messaging tools.&#xA0; An issue that could be resolved with a five-minute conversation routinely took 10 or more back-and-forth messages with the incidence of misunderstandings increasing. The phone now fits somewhere between a text message and a Zoom call. I realize that convenience and speed drive us toward electronic communications, but have we lost the ability to simply use a phone?&#xA0; Try it, you might like it. Randy Freides P.S. Call your father this weekend to wish him aView Full Post;</description></oembed>
