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Phone conversations

It really depends on who I am talking to. If I have to ring up the bank or some other institution where I have no idea who the hell it is on the other end of the line, I start getting weird with that cutesy, friendly voice that I've mentioned here before. Stutters, lumps in throats etc. probably because it's a formal situation with a stranger, I get nervous whether it's on the phone or irl.

if it's someone I've spoken to before, no problem at all. I'm not surprised a lot of people find the phone awkward, it's sort of in the middle between personal (they can hear your voice) and impersonal (it's not face to face) so it's a bit of a strange situation.
 
To me, talking on the phone is kind of like talking face to face if you know the other person, but if I talk to someone I don't really know on the phone, it feels weird and I try to make the conversation short if that happens.
 
when it comes to pick the phone..i hate it cuz most of time people talk a lot and ask lots of questions...sadly,i can say i hardly call someone too..that's why most of my friends thinks i don't care about them as i never call which is not true but i can't do something about that....but when i have to talk on phone,it's not that scary i can talk well unless the person i talk to make me feel nervous...i used to run to the phone when it rang while i was young but the reason that made me did that before doesn't exist anymore.
 
Only with family members I know well. Even then I never actually call them, they call me. My hearing isn't very good, so I tend not to like talking too long. Sometimes I can't understand what they're saying and it sucks. And then sometimes I start to zone out.

If I have to talk with a stranger, I avoid the phone at all costs. It's so bad the last time we needed to call the landlord, I made my roommate do it. :(

On the whole, I vastly prefer texting.
 
Ugh phone conversations are the worst. I can't handle them, they're horrible. For some reason when I'm on the phone I always run short on things to say... or I just can't pretend to care enough when I'm on the phone to bother thinking of things to say in response to what people tell me. I really really hate talking on the phone.

As some people have said, calling is worse than answering. Answering the phone usually consists of me answering, asking how whoever it is is, then passing the phone to whoever they actually called to speak to. With calling you have to actually talk to people and often it's someone other than who you want to talk to who answers so you have to ask for them and it's just awkward.
 
I'm decent, I suppose. I'm definitely not the right person to call if you want an interesting conversation but I'm a decent listener, I give responses, keep my composure, etcetera. After a long conversation, I do however, feel that my conversational skills sucked. I actually 'pretend' to be a more confident person on the phone than when people come up to me and strike up a conversation irl, which is a pretty euphemistic approach in my opinion. I rarely make calls though, unless I find it to be an absolute necessity.
 
I suck at phone conversations. I'd rather have face-to-face or go down to IMing. I only care enough when I'm talking to my step-dad, but, when I'm talking to anybody else, my mood usually is "Can we end this already please?".
 
I hate talking on the phone unless I'm driving, yeah, I know it's bad. Otherwise, I prefer to text... it's much easier =P
 
i'm pretty sure i'm the same whenever i talk on the phone. although, i think i try to sound more confident and assertive (especially when it comes to talking to service providers), seeing as the person on the other line doesn't see me.
 
I'm usually not a fan of talking over the phone, but I try my best to not make things awkward whenever I do. I prefer face to face interaction, rather than hearing only his/her voices. Even skype or oovoo conversations are more favored than phone calls.

However, I guess I can go out of my way to give a good conversation or so. It also has to be the people I talk to. I usually have the briefest talks with strangers or people who are looking for my parents. I usually take a couple of minutes to have a chat with my friends if they call me. The only time when I stay on the phone for a long period of time is probably for my girlfriend or a really close friend of mine.
 
Well to start I actually really enjoy talking on the phone. I get a little nervous sometimes when calling a company to set something up or ask about times and whatnot so by default I end up putting on this really sweet voice. Which If anyone is around to hear me when this happens I get instantly laughed at or made fun of right when I hang up.

The more I get to know someone or the more comfortable I am with someone the more I tend to run out of things to talk about when on the phone. Which is my only phone calling downfall I think. It's like if I'm comfortable with you my mind kind of wanders around and I end up thinking to myself or I just go blank or I will weirdly enjoy the "presence" of a phone call and so become so relaxed that I end up not thinking. IDK it's very hard to explain, but that's the best I can do! If I don't talk to you on the phone a lot then most likely I'll just keep talking because I won't want to bore you and since the comfort level hasn't been established I feel like I have to keep you entertained.

Regardless, as I said before I really enjoy talking on the phone and I randomly call up my friends every few weeks because I like just talking. Texting to me gets really annoying really fast especially if I just want to tell you a story and get it over with.
 
I'm not a fan of talking on the phone, but I don't speak any differently over the phone than I do in face to face conversations. I do prefer internet conversations though.

And talking to people on the phone isn't nearly as bad as talking to automated voice-recognition machines over the phone. Those things NEVER recognize my voice correctly:/
 
I'm really good at phone conversations with people that I am really close with. But when it comes to people I do not know that well, I really don't like having phone conversations because they always end up being very awkward. My personalty stays the same in both telephones and in person.

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I am really bad with phones, which is a little funny because my first job was as a telephone operator and I was actually really good at that. :P But I guess it's because I didn't have to do any small talk... it was all business. When I call friends or family, I feel obliged to ask them how they're doing and talk for more than just the initial request. :( I really hate talking on the phone so that annoys me and makes me even less likely to do it.

Relatedly, I hate leaving messages on answering machines.
 
I'm more of a face-to-face person, which is a lot easier than phone conversations. I tend to stop mid-sentence, and always start right when my partner starts, so we both stop and wait for one of us to start, which gets very awkward after a while. Despite all this, I rarely talk on the phone, but would rather text.
 
I hate it. For some reason, I talk differently. I almost have a hard time doing so. Idk what it is, but I hate talking on the phone.

Especially when ordering food. Haha.
 
I hate talking on the phone. Even before texting, I hated it. I hate calling people, I hate people calling me. It's just terrible. If I call someone, I'm probably just calling to ask something and ONLY ask something. I don't want to chat. At all. So once we confirm your answer, then bye. lol And I never leave messages on answering machines, unless I'm calling someone with something school or work related. Those are the only exceptions, and even then I hate it. I hate having to leave my name and number and ****. Why should I have to anyway? Don't these people have caller ID? I mean, it's 2012. I'm going to stop now.
 
When I was a youngster, I used to be afraid of answering the phone. Nowadays I have no problems with phone conversations. Might be a good idea to try and get used to it as some companies like to hold an initial telephone interview before inviting applicants to a face to face interview at their company.
 
It used to be hard, especially when talking to some relative of mine, lol. I am more comfortable talking with my friends, believe or not. Sometimes it's not a case of uncomfortableness in speaking through the phone but more a case of getting annoyed, mainly when talking with my grandma. She tends to ask countless and very similar questions, always getting paranoid that something happened to use if we took a time to answer. I stay away from answering the phone when her number pops on the caller ID; harsh, I know.

While somehow working at a bank, I've got more familiar in taking in calls and stuff, lol.
 
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