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Hawkeye
06-14-2005, 11:42 PM
Because of Destais thread, it spurred me to ask this question: Do you talk more on the phone or online, through AIM, Y!M, or MSN?

GooeyToast
06-14-2005, 11:44 PM
I NEVER talk on the phone, unless my dad calls from Arizona. It's so much easier to be surfin' da web AND talking to peeps at the same time.

44 caliber
06-14-2005, 11:48 PM
I don't much like either, I prefer face to face. But I like IM better because you can pay attention to a number of things rather than having to pay attention to one single thing.

ughhis
06-14-2005, 11:51 PM
Phones.
They're much more intimate.

Rase
06-14-2005, 11:54 PM
Of those two, phones are better in my opinion. I can multitask, so I'll just play my game or surf the web or read a book or whatever while talking on the phone. Plus, it feels more personal and I like talking to my friends.

Shoeberto
06-14-2005, 11:54 PM
Honestly, neither. Most of my IRL friends go to my message board, and if I want to talk to them I'll do it through there. If I want to address all of them, I make a thread, and for one-on-one I PM them. They do the same as well.

-N-
06-15-2005, 01:00 AM
IRL > IM > phone. Minutes are expensive, ya know.

Rye
06-15-2005, 01:00 AM
I talk more by IM than phone for sure.

rubah
06-15-2005, 03:48 AM
More often on IM. phones are usually a necessary evil, unless it's with other eoffers, then just necessary.

I am ashamed to admit that my dreams involve irc/aim windowsX.x;;;

Jojee
06-15-2005, 08:39 AM
For my offline friends, on the phone ^_^

For online friends, well, online, of course ~ :]

Shlup
06-15-2005, 08:40 AM
I probably talk more on the phone because I'm usually on my phone when I walk to and from class.

Rusty
06-15-2005, 09:09 AM
I talk to my online friends through msn, of course. But I usually talk to all my friends and family face to face more than I do on the phone :)

Xander
06-15-2005, 09:52 AM
Phone to importantest people, LJ to internet friends...MSN to people in between those. xD

Reles
06-15-2005, 09:56 AM
I talk on IM a lot, but I'd rather speak to a person on the phone.

Loony BoB
06-15-2005, 09:58 AM
I spend about 100 hours on the phone each month to Sarah, and I call a few other people once in a while too. Otherwise it's all IM's. But I voted phone because I prefer the phone to chat for the people who are most important to me.

<3 the phone.

Resha
06-15-2005, 10:10 AM
IRL friends....well; face to face! Sometimes I talk aaaaages on the phone, but not everyday or something, because it gets annoying having to have that thing stuck your ear all the time. xD I IM a lot, but not my offline friends. And VOICE CONVERSATIONS! <33333 :love: No silly thing stuck to my ear, even. ^_^

Cruise Control
06-15-2005, 10:18 AM
IM, it doesn't cost you an arm and a leg over long distances!

Meat Puppet
06-15-2005, 10:38 AM
I have no friends.

Resha
06-15-2005, 10:40 AM
I have no friends.

I'm your fwiend MP! ^___^ MOOHAHA. That makes you a liar. :) :love:

Jewels
06-15-2005, 11:45 AM
Definitely the phone. I usually just can't shut up, whereas IM...the conversation is just too slow for my liking these days...

Devourment
06-15-2005, 11:55 AM
I speak to a lot of people online, probably more than I do than with offline friends on my home phone. Reason being because my Mum is very strict about certain things, & she wouldn't like me speaking a lot to my friends on our home phone using it all the time, & I don't have a mobile phone, so that rules out speaking to offline friends with that. But all my offline friends are close by, so I don't really ever need to phone then. Though one thing I do find weird, is that I have more online friends than offline friends. >_<

I never use MSN and the like anyway, the only thing I use is my Hotmail account, where I speak to some people on there. Though I never go into chat... Don't know why, p'raps 'cause I just don't like it.

The Anarchy Angel
06-15-2005, 05:35 PM
Phones bite you!

ZeZipster
06-15-2005, 05:44 PM
IM... Awkward silence is so much less awkward online.