(via IM)
Neil: “I figured out how to put photos in the contacts into the iphone. There is an app that transfers all the photos from Facebook.”
Mommyblogger: “Cool.”
Neil: “Now if you ever call me on the phone, your face will fill the screen and I’ll know not to avoid the call, like I sometimes do when my mother calls.”
Mommyblogger: “Aww, I bet you take all of your mother’s calls.”
Neil: “I want to add your number. What’s your number?”
Mommyblogger: “What do you want my number for?”
Neil: “I can call you some time. Free minutes after nine!”
Mommyblogger: “I’m not sure my husband would want you to call me.”
Neil: “Are you serious? I IM with you all the time!”
Mommyblogger: “That’s different. IM-ing and email are not real. Calling on the phone is real.”
You make an interesting point. Besides the implications that might be drawn by phone calls, I would find phone calls from someone I “knew” online awkward. With blog or FB comments or Twitter, I can make a point and that’s it; I’m out.
With a real time give-and-take, what the hell would we talk about? In person, you have at least the weather and the setting to get the conversation started.
Phones, so 2008 for actually calling people!
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Phone conversations and IM conversations are totally different somehow.