Looking for new landline provider

Simple.. Cos their wimmen!

It may be because talking to an inanimate object (a phone) is simpler than conversing face-to-face, when you need to take into account facial and body signals, not to mention vocal variations which transfer less well over a phone line.

Using a phone is less stressful, especially for the young (and others!) whose social and conversational skills are still developing. Texting, of course, creates an even greater psychological distance and so is even easier.

Teenage boys may be less interested in communicating, except with girls.

Hmm, maybe for teenage girls..! I prefer face to face communication, if I am at work I will nearly always go to someone's office to speak to them rather than ringing them up.

I never had problems talking to people when I was a teenager. Stopping myself thumping the living daylights out of them when they wound me up was another matter though..! (Hmm, maybe that's why I'm on Usenet so much..!!)

True..!

Ivor