A Realisation of Communication Etiquette

Once upon a time, only a maid or the butler get to answer phone calls at a residence. 

Then came your adolescence days where the key rite of passage was getting a phone line in the comfort of your own bedroom, so you could be the first to answer when the phone rang and spend literally hours just chit chatting despite the aching neck and burning ears. 

Those were the days.  

The evolution went on, where you suddenly come to terms where we have a bunch of people who forever seem so reluctant to return your calls, even after you left them numerous voice mails begging them to respond.  


Sadly, I am beginning to see that trend evading in emails too.  Some people just love to make you feel as if your emails have been sent to the black hole or to the dear void.     



Here comes the era when hardly anybody calls you.  Even if they do, they probably would have sms or emailed you first and ask, "Is it OK if I call you now?", as if it is intruding to to do so in the first place. 

I strongly suggest phone companies look into replacing air time with data package.  We'd all be better off.