For context, I’m 65. “Back in the day” for most people, most of the time, phone calls were rare enough that no one worried about being interrupted by them coming in randomly. I suspect the frequency with which people send text messages, combined with the effectively zero cost of phone calls (hint: they weren’t always that way!), raised the frequency (or potential frequency) of phone calls to the level where people started worrying about the interruptions. Just a theory.
For context, I’m 65. “Back in the day” for most people, most of the time, phone calls were rare enough that no one worried about being interrupted by them coming in randomly. I suspect the frequency with which people send text messages, combined with the effectively zero cost of phone calls (hint: they weren’t always that way!), raised the frequency (or potential frequency) of phone calls to the level where people started worrying about the interruptions. Just a theory.