![]() ![]() Even in that brief 30-second conversation, I cannot imagine why me and Chris would have swapped numbers. ![]() “Sorry I’m at work and there are customers, but… good luck!” he hangs up before I have a chance to piece anything together. “Camden?” I haven’t been to Camden in years, but it’s a possibility. I explain that I’m ringing people on my contacts list, people I don’t remember, and does he happen to know how we met? “Er, no mate sorry. “Hello?” they ask, with the confident tone of someone who actually uses their phone. The first person I call, “Chris”, picks up after two rings. And one contact, “Emma Gemini”, literally blocks me without replying. A few of them have obviously changed numbers because my WhatsApps don't go through. To begin with, I pre-warn a few of these people with a message, but this doesn’t go too well. The names that I cannot for the life of me conjure up a face for. Instead, I go for the names that I have literally no recollection of adding. As someone who uses their phone a lot for work, I have to be careful not to ring “Este Haim”, “Jamie Klaxon” or “Lindsay Lohan PR” because that would be unprofessional. And so, one afternoon, I decide to give a bunch of them a ring for “a chat” in order to “reconnect.” What could go wrong?įirst, I whittle it down to a shortlist. There must have been a reason I added them to my phone in the first place. And who knows? Maybe all these names in my phone – “Esme Tinder”, “Kaya Club”, the vague and innocuous “Em” – shouldn’t be viewed as strangers but opportunities for friends I haven’t made yet. But in the era of social media, phone calls to people you barely know are almost considered a faux pas.īut all of this got me thinking: social norms are there to be broken. You might have actually rang someone’s house phone for a 30-minute conversation. Back in the day, exchanging numbers might have meant something. And God forbid you’d ever use your phone to actually ring anyone other than your mother. As time goes on, the names stack up, but still you just DM the same few friends on Instagram/WhatsApp/whichever platform you hate the least. If you own a smartphone, chances are you’ve had the same contact list for a number of years. ![]()
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