A quarter of Gen Z adults actively avoid phone calls and six in 10 even blank calls from their own parents, a study has found.
A third find calls ‘awkward’ and 24 per cent would never just phone someone out of the blue. In fact, 36 per cent reckon the bulk of the phone calls they make are trying to get hold of their mates on a night out. The poll of 1,000 adults aged 18-25, commissioned by Sky Mobile, found 73 per cent would rather catch up on WhatsApp, iMessage or Snapchat than speaking on the phone. However, it’s not just calls they are ignoring, as 41 per cent have even muted a group chat with their mum and dad.
The research also explored messaging between parents and their children – with 41 per cent of Gen Z noting their parents often reply ‘ok’ to almost everything. While 30 per cent get inundated with a stream of x’s at the end of a message from mums and dads. It also emerged 35 per cent find it amusing when their parents have no idea what emojis mean, with 27 per cent thinking their parents are clueless about the ones they are sending themselves.
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