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anonymous
September 14 2013, 16:57:03 UTC
It depends. I believe there is a certain obligation to fulfill social obligations - to say please and thank you, to apologize for inadvertently insulting someone, to use a napkin at dinner and congratulate someone on their new baby - but that obligation is tempered by both personal comfort and degree of relationship.
If you find phone calls extremely anxiety inducing, then only the most important, strongly held social obligations to call someone can be fairly held to apply. If someone doesn't like being touched, than you shouldn't expect them to preform social obligations involving touching.
Basically, social obligation should be considered, but so should personal comfort and autonomy.
Phone calls aren't necessarily more personal than email, but they're different. The conversation is more 2-way, and if it's someone you don't talk to much, it's easier to engage because it's 'in the moment' as opposed to the over time-and-multiple-messages like an email conversation. When you're not close, it's easier for a phone conversation to be
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If you find phone calls extremely anxiety inducing, then only the most important, strongly held social obligations to call someone can be fairly held to apply. If someone doesn't like being touched, than you shouldn't expect them to preform social obligations involving touching.
Basically, social obligation should be considered, but so should personal comfort and autonomy.
Phone calls aren't necessarily more personal than email, but they're different. The conversation is more 2-way, and if it's someone you don't talk to much, it's easier to engage because it's 'in the moment' as opposed to the over time-and-multiple-messages like an email conversation. When you're not close, it's easier for a phone conversation to be ( ... )
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