I don’t know if phone calls decay is that much a generational thing.
Our elderly parents stopped calling us and moved to Line the moment they had an iPhone (then an iPad), and even with their friends they seem to just hit the call button from the messaging threads. They still say they had someone on the phone, though they’re on third party services, so it seems it kinda just switched in their mind.
Perhaps the same way we were switching between local calls, long distance calls, special operator calls in the offline days, but we’d still just think of it as phoning people whatever the actual service we were using behind.
Our elderly parents stopped calling us and moved to Line the moment they had an iPhone (then an iPad), and even with their friends they seem to just hit the call button from the messaging threads. They still say they had someone on the phone, though they’re on third party services, so it seems it kinda just switched in their mind.
Perhaps the same way we were switching between local calls, long distance calls, special operator calls in the offline days, but we’d still just think of it as phoning people whatever the actual service we were using behind.