Study Shows E-Mail Is More Romantic Than Talking On The Phone
Want more proof that millenials HATE talking on the phone?
A new study finds that a Facebook message or e-mail is more likely to get you date than a phone call!
According to The Daily Mail, 72 teenagers were studied, and the subjects considered their choice of words more carefully when composing electronic messages.
"Email enables senders to modify the content as messages are composed to ensure they are crafted to the needs of the situation. Voicemail lacks this feature," says Alan Dennis, an Indiana University professor and co-author of the study.
Dennis adds, "[This means] senders engage with email messages longer and may think about the task more deeply than when leaving voicemails. This extra processing may increase arousal."
The main takeaway? Perhaps e-communication isn't so impersonal, after all.
We should probably go back and reconsider a lot of the stereotypical assumptions that we hold about email and text messaging that may not hold true when we take a deeper look at how people react physiologically.
I'm young and current enough to embrace technology, but I'm also old enough to remember life without it. I remember passing notes to girls in school, staying on the phone for hours, and actually being nervous to ask a girl out.
I suppose, with electronic messages, the butterflies go away. It's less emotional investment, which could make it easier to recover from rejection. But still...PICK UP THE F***ING PHONE AND TALK TO THAT HOTTIE! #RantOver :-)
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