Telepocalypse

Skype anxiety

I guess it will be a sign of old age soon, behaving like this. You're sat there, chatting away on Skype. But you keep watching that damn elapsed call time clock running. And there's this little anxiety in the back of your mind that this call is going on a long time ... and we've just left it running while one of us goes to the loo ... and keeps running while I take a cell phone call ... and we haven't said much in the last few minutes, have we?

I think "metered communications anxiety disorder" might become the defining way of discerning us Gen-Xs and older. My parents still have trouble making transatlantic idle talk -- "surely this call must be costing you a lot?" I'm still stuck on "surely this call must be costing me something?". No it isn't.

Daughter, when I were a lad, we had to pay for every call and message. And she won't believe me...