Mankind has, as you may have noticed, become very inventive about devising new ways for people to avoid talking to each other, and I’d been taking full advantage of the most recent ones.
I would always send a text message rather than speak to someone on the phone. Rather than meeting with any of my friends, I would post cheerful, ironically worded status updates on Facebook, to show them all what a busy life I was leading. Jonathan Coe, The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim, Penguin Viking, 2010, p. 19
I would always send a text message rather than speak to someone on the phone. Rather than meeting with any of my friends, I would post cheerful, ironically worded status updates on Facebook, to show them all what a busy life I was leading. Jonathan Coe, The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim, Penguin Viking, 2010, p. 19