{"id":33596,"date":"2025-09-20T23:49:20","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T23:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/33596\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T23:49:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T23:49:20","slug":"adrian-weckler-demise-of-the-phone-call-leaves-us-all-more-isolated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/33596\/","title":{"rendered":"Adrian Weckler: Demise of the phone call leaves us all more isolated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nWith unplanned phone calls considered rude and aggressive, and Gen Z and millenials too \u2018stressed\u2019 to pick up, are calls becoming obsolete?\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The sound of silence... try calling a 21-year-old randomly and there is a 5pc chance they will answer. Photo: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/tyImages_1388399712.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">The sound of silence&#8230; try calling a 21-year-old randomly and there is a 5pc chance they will answer. Photo: Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">In the iPhone\u2019s updated iOS 26 operating system, there\u2019s a feature that lets you screen calls. The iPhone itself will answer the call and ask politely who is calling and what it\u2019s about before putting the call on hold.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The answer is then relayed to you and you can decide whether to pick up or politely decline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With unplanned phone calls considered rude and aggressive, and Gen Z and millenials too \u2018stressed\u2019 to pick up,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33597,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[8819,72,61,60,279],"class_list":["post-33596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-adrian-weckler","tag-business","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-review-magazine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}