If it’s a life or death situation involving having to call Papa John’s for pizza, someone else is going to have to be the hero.

Twenty years later he still asks me, and yes I’m still scared.

Consequently, I stay away from the phone as much as possible.

I wish I could blame my fear of the phone on the fact that I’ve only ever known a smartphone.

I started out with the old-school invention—curly cord, wall-plug and all. After spending years trying to figure out my phobia, I think it boils down to this.

My first cell phone was given to me when I started 9th grade, and it was roughly the size of a small brick that someone would use to build a planter in their front yard. I simply want to see who I’m talking to, and I can’t on the phone.

My dad always asks me, “Are you afraid they’re going to reach through the phone and grab you?

S., over 100 teens shared with us their personal experiences with social media and romantic relationships. During the focus groups, technology – and especially social media – often was described as an integral part of the courting process for teens.

These are some of the key themes and responses we heard during these data-gathering sessions. And I met a girl on there and she lived up in [location]. Half of all teens (50%) have let someone know they were interested in them romantically by friending them on Facebook or another social media site, and 47% have expressed their attraction by liking, commenting or otherwise interacting with that person on social media.

Maggie from New York City specified in her profile that she wanted to meet someone between the ages of twenty-five and thirty-five who lived in Manhattan, so receiving emails from sixty-five-year-old men who lived a hundred miles away was not amusing.

Someone who blatantly disregards what you’ve stated you’re looking for is simply wasting your time.