Ian Bogost’s article, “Don’t Hate the Phone Call, Hate the Phone,” discusses how people in this generation despise the act of speaking one the phone and are so conditioned to texting or video calling. He states, ” One of the ironies of modern life is that everyone is glued to their phones, but nobody uses them as phones anymore.” I personally agree with this statement because a lot of people my age rather text on apps like iMessage, Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, etc. The biggest form if communication that I know for sure a lot of kids my age and up also like to use is FaceTime. Video call is another huge way of communication not only in our generation, but even adults and much older people use it too. People rather use these forms of communication because they feel that it is more comfortable and less personal. For example, Bogost states, “When asked people with a distaste for phone calls argue that they are presumptuous and intrusive, especially given alternative methods of contact that don’t make unbidden demands for someone’s undivided attention. In response, some have diagnosed a kind of telephoniphobia among this set.”  Bogost also goes on to say that ,”When even initiating phone calls is a problem—and even innocuous ones, like phoning the local Thai place to order takeout—then anxiety rather than habit may be to blame: When asynchronous, textual media like email or WhatsApp allow you to intricately craft every exchange, the improvisational nature of ordinary, live conversation can feel like an unfamiliar burden. ”  Now this is where I would have to agree with Bogost in the sense that it’s pretty ridiculous as to why people are so opposed to the idea to having a conversation on the phone and here is why. Way before their was even  a computer or any kind of texting or video calling people used to talk on the phone all the time and there was no problem. In fact, Bogost argues that even phone call back then was way better than now because their was no risk of losing signal during a phone call like there is now because now we have wireless phones. For example he states, ” The traditional, wired public switched telephone network (PSTN) operates by circuit switching. When a call is connected, one line is connected to another by routing it through a network of switches. At first these were analog signals running over copper wire, which is why switchboard operators had to help connect calls. But even after the PSTN went digital and switching became automated, a call was connected and then maintained over a reliable circuit for its duration. Calls almost never dropped and rarely failed to connect.” I would say Bogost does have a point because like most people, I have a smart phone and my calls fail all the time when I’m in certain areas. When you have landline it’s connected to something and because of this explanation on how phone calls used to work, they were much easier to make. However, on the contrary wireless phones are more reliable than a landline because it’s portable and it’s easier access to a phone and as a  millennial myself I appreciate the privilege to text, call, and video chat whenever I please, but I do not mind being on the phone like most people do not these days. All in all, I do agree with Bogost’s main gist of this piece. I do believe we need to appreciate the phone call because I do not mind being a little bit more personal because sometimes texts and emails can be misconstrued because we cannot always tell the tone of which the person is writing in. I think I’d rather seem more personal and inviting than impersonal because in life you cannot always just text and video chat to communicate, we need phone calls as well as face-to-face interaction as well.