As much as we don’t want to admit it, the way we communicate is changing rapidly.  It doesn’t seem that long ago that I heard people saying, “why would I ever need a phone in my car”? The only way I got my wife to have one was “in case of an emergency”.  Now folks aren’t even calling each other any more.  They are using texting as referenced in this Washington Post article http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/21/AR2009022101863.html?sub=AR or other forms of social media like Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, etc.  There are social ramifications for this phenomena but the bottom line is if you want to know what is going on with friends or for business purposes, you will soon have to surrender to learning a whole new way to stay in touch.