Rank in order of what's more personal to you (1 being the most personal): phone call, texting, email, instant messaging.

For me: 1) phone call, 2) email, 3) texting, 4) instant messaging

I think phone calls are the most personal form of communication; it's the closest thing to talking to someone face-to-face (which I prefer the most). I find emailing more personal than texting because you're putting more thought into writing it? Kind of like writing letters except in digital form. Then again, people tend to despise email because there's so much of it. Therein lies texting: fast, immediate, and when you mean it, you can convey feeling pretty well, I think. But it's like the Twitter effect: say what you can in this many characters. I mean, you can send multiple texts too, whatever works. (Also, I think texting abbreviations like "4" instead of "for" and "ur" instead of "you're/your" make it more impersonal.) I put instant messaging last because I'm rarely on AIM anymore. But I think it's pretty personal because the person's right there talking to you, especially when you do video chat. If I were on/used it more often, I'd put that up there with phone calls.

Oye, it's kind of tough ranking these.

—10 March 2009 ; 4 comments

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Andrea on March 11, 2009 at 1:10AM

For me, nothing beats a handwritten letter.


Jasmin on March 11, 2009 at 6:52AM

Hmm, five years ago: 1) phone call 2) instant message (IRC) 3) texting 4) email

Now: 1) email 2) texting 3) phone call 4) instant message

For my birthday in the first year I asked M to write me a letter, which he did, all ten pages of it, it makes me tear up. I like phone calls but prepaid rates have made me shun long voice calls for awhile.


rhea on March 12, 2009 at 5:47AM

personally:

1. email
2. text
3. instant message
4. phone call

i don't mind talking on the phone for brief moments but for the most part i think i'm phoneaphobic. i don't do long conversations into the night. i do do however, long emails.


Rachel on March 14, 2009 at 4:23PM

i agree with Andrea.

also, I HATE TALKING ON THE PHONE. i both mumble and can't hear speech well unless i am looking someone in the face, which makes phone conversations awkward and uncomfortable for both me and the other party, because we're both constantly going, 'what? huh? eh? erm?'
Hi, my name is Amy. Be well, and say hello!



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