The lost art of having a chat: what happened when I stopped texting and started talking

We are more connected than ever, but we rarely seem to really speak to each other. So, Rebecca Nicholson decided to try

Like most people I know, my Weekly Screen Report is obscene. Every Sunday, when the notification pops up to tell me the hours I have wasted, mostly texting, I think about all the things I could have done. Finished Middlemarch. Started Middlemarch. But as I have my phone in my hand, I scroll through Instagram instead. I send an article or a joke to a friend, a picture of the dog to the family WhatsApp, catch up on someone else’s night out.

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