Over 70% of young adults surveyed in Japan have ‘phone phobia’ – The Mainichi

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1. >In addition, 44.8% of all respondents felt displeasure when the landline phone rang at work. The most common reason for this, chosen by 50.8%, was “I have to stop what I’m doing to answer it, which breaks my concentration.”

   It’s not just young people that feel this way, especially after apps like Slack and Teams became widely adopted I feel very much the same way.

   Like “Who has the audacity to just ring up someone and expect them to drop whatever they are doing and give them 15 minutes of their day out of the blue?”

   But I’ve felt this way since I was in my 20s and we only had email, so might be an outlier, haha

2. me too thanks

3. [my goodness a voice, hello in there!](https://youtu.be/Y_nC4qvdPTI?si=Vam2fINq99UVWvsF)

   Young adults are seriously socially stunted. Clearly because of phones, no not the kind you talk into but the little computer in your hand meant for posting, liking, trolling and scrolling

4. I’ve always had this even as a kid. Well before cellphones were common. There’s something way different between talking in person and on a phone.

5. Sounds less like phobia and more like it’s annoying.

   Same goes for me. I much prefer a heads up so I can stop what I’m doing properly instead of dropping everything.

6. Same. Can’t stand talking on the phone. I’ll do it if I have to but it’s not my first choice. In contrary, so many services seem phone based here.

7. Not only is it annoying to just randomly be asked to give up part of your day. Nothing is recorded.

   I can write notes down but the other person? A lot of times I’ve had important info relayed to me via phone only to have the person who said them forget the details and none of it is easily available to see in messages.

8. Always have been

   why not just text me or email me so I can see it while doing something else at the same time

9. Yup. The missus complains about this all the time.

   “Hey could, you answer that?”

   “I don’t know how.”

   “What do mean you don’t know how!?”

10. Oh my god it’s me. I simply can’t. I mean I can, but the fear is intense. I hear those vibrations and my heart starts beating, start sweating, and slight adrenaline release. It’s insane.

    It’s literally just talking to someone on a fucking phone. Lol.

11. This isn’t just in Japan lol

12. No one likes having to answer the common phone on their open space group of tables.

    Boomers hate it, Gen X guys hate it, Millenials hate it, Gen Z guys hate it. One of the rare things that every generation can align on.