How often do you talk to friends on the phone?

[HoneySpider]

I'm so not a phone person, I much prefer to text or email. One of my new year's resolutions was to CALL a friend (ones that aren't local so I rarely see) once a month and I have barely done it. So I'm making a call tonight.

[HoneySpider]

Aww my friend didn't answer 

[travelbug]

Basically never! I hate talking on the phone... I'd much prefer text/email/Facebook and obviously in person hang out the best! I only call when I am super sad or something super exciting happens!

[Deleted]

My BFF and I talk about once a week. All my other friend's usually by text or on Facebook.

[Deleted]

The last time I spoke to anyone on the phone that wasn't my H or family, it was 2011.

The last time I texted anyone that wasn't my H or family was 2011.

The last time I spoke to anyone remotely resembling a "friend" via Facebook was May.

The last time I saw a friend, and not just the wife of one of my H's friends, was in 2010.

Oh, and I'm still waiting for a reply to emails I wrote to two friends in 2011.  One seems to have just...disappeared off the face of the earth, and the other just doesn't like me anymore, I guess lol.

I don't have any friends.

[katespade]

Aug 27, 2014 19:26:17 GMT -5 @moonbeam said:

I don't have any friends.

You are not alone in this. This is me, as well.

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Aug 27, 2014 19:29:53 GMT -5 katespade said:

Aug 27, 2014 19:26:17 GMT -5 @moonbeam said:

I don't have any friends.

You are not alone in this. This is me, as well.

(hug)  (hug2) Hugs for the lonely girls!

[katespade]

Aug 27, 2014 19:30:45 GMT -5 @moonbeam said:

Aug 27, 2014 19:29:53 GMT -5 katespade said:

You are not alone in this. This is me, as well.

(hug)  (hug2) Hugs for the lonely girls!

Right???   (hug) (hug2)

[awick14]

((Hugs)) to the lonely ladies.

I never call friends, but I used to when I worked out of town all the time. I called DH every night, and a friend every other week. (And my mom at least once a week.)

[travelbug]

@stargazer & katespade I'll join the lonely girls party too!

[mac08]

I have one friend I talk to on the phone once every few months.  Other than that, I only talk to my parents and sister and occasionally I will call my grandpa.  I am like most of you, so not a phone person!  I do communicate with close friends relatively often via text and sometimes Facebook and gchat.

[HoneySpider]

I can talk to my mom all day every day...she's the exception to me being "not a phone person"

[Blue Moon]

Not enough.

I talk to my BFF every 6 weeks or so on the phone and another gf maybe every other month to catch up on gossip. It's so much easier to just text/FB.

I felt bad my BFF squealed "you're pregnant!" when she answered the phone call in which I was planning to tell her the news. She said she knew because I called instead of texting.

[HoneySpider]

I don't have any friends locally anymore (they've moved away) so I am lonely here. WFH doesn't help that, I spend a lot of time by myself. My friends are so far away that I'm lucky if I see them once a year.

[HoneySpider]

Aug 27, 2014 19:51:09 GMT -5 Blue Moon said:

Not enough.

I talk to my BFF every 6 weeks or so on the phone and another gf maybe every other month to catch up on gossip. It's so much easier to just text/FB.

I felt bad my BFF squealed "you're pregnant!" when she answered the phone call in which I was planning to tell her the news. She said she knew because I called instead of texting.

I've had this thought before - if I ever have big news of some sort, calling will be a giveaway since it's out of the norm. 

[rockinrobyn]

My friend and I talk about once a month on the phone. She lives 6 hours away so dont see her often. Plus she never answers her phone and calls me at 10pm.

[bk1]

After BFF and I lived together, we talked on the phone most days. Before she got pg we talked 2-3 times a week. Now after pg/baby we talk every 1-2 weeks. Things are just much busier with her right now. I bet we will talk more once she is back to teaching and has other things to talk about.


But, I talk on the phone quite a bit. I talk to my mom almost every day and my MIL 2-3 times a week. Today I talked to my mom twice and MIL twice. *shrug* Some days are just like that.

I basically have a phone date with my mom every weekday morning at 9am even when we know we are getting together later that day. We have just always been like that.

[estrellita]

I hate talking on the phone. Hate! I pretty much only call my mom for any sort of actual conversation. I have trouble understanding people on the phone and it makes me anxious for some reason.

Sad thing is I barely even text people anymore. I feel like I don't have a ton of close friends anymore. I prefer talking to people in person and most of my friends have moved away. Add me to the lonely club!

[wanderingenough]

Rarely. My best friends and I talk via, text/email/ridiculous snap chat multiple times a week, if not daily. But we almost never talk on the phone.

The only people I talk to on the phone are my mom (several times a week), one of my brothers (about monthly), and my aunt (every couple months). That's it.

[tacocat]

I really only have one friend that I talk to on the phone and that's probably every couple of months. She's only an hour away, but up until recently she was bar tending so our schedules have been way different.

I'm just not a phone person. H is really the only person I can regularly have long phone conversations with.

[luv2rn4fun]

I have a handful of friends that I talk on the phone with about once a month; otherwise, I text more like once a week or so.

I see my BFF every week but we still have phone conversations every couple weeks or so (she's going through a really hard time).

I talk to DH a lot (on his way to work, lunch time, sometimes on DH's drive home)...we might consume 1+ hr of talking on some days. I also catch up with my dad, mom, and brother via phone on a weekly basis (or at least try to).

Even though it feels like I talk on the phone a lot I do most of my conversations either face to face or via text. I am known to go for walks and make phone calls...definitely not a sit on the couch/talk on the phone type of person...if I'm going to be talking, I'm also going to be active.

[anyastroud]

I live in OH and my BFF lives in CO so we make it a point to sit down one a week and talk for a few hours at a time. DH makes fun of us all the time for it. He always says that we are the only girls that get drunk together via conference call.

[MrsMB]

I actually have it written down in my schedule to call a friend or family member during the week. I'm still bad about it

[Deleted]

It's weird--it depends on which era of my life we became friends. My sister and my oldest friend from grade school? Phone 1x every 2 weeks. College/grad school? FB forum. Now? All text.

[spankswife]

Never. I really only talk on the phone to my mom, sister, and brother. I try to talk to them when I am driving home from work. Otherwise, never.

[melsamoony]

HoneySpider I am with you. I talk to my mom on the phone but don't really talk on the phone w my friends.

I don't mind being on the phone but I do much prefer in person interaction.

[ginkgoleaf]

I talk to one friend maybe once every couple months. Mostly I keep track of people on Facebook or through text. My BFF from high school and I email each other, but there's usually at least a month in between replies since the emails are so long.

[HoneySpider]

Well I've talked to 2 friends on the phone today, neither of whom is the one I called last night. I think I've met my talking to friends on the phone quota for the year