For something that started out as a ‘movement,’ has now manifested itself into an overwhelming crescendo of consensus. Random phone calls are OVER. In her article entitled, ‘The Phone Call Is Dead,’ Alexia Tsotsis from Tech Crunch touched on a few of the indisputable points that 2oceansvibe has been giving for the last few years.

In the tech industry saying that something is dead actually means “It’s on the decline.” And yes, the phone call is on an inexorable decline.

My original title for this post was “The Phone Call Will Be Dead In __ Years” but as consumer inertia is somehow still keeping our parent company Aol in the dialup business, I thought it might be prudent not to include an ETA on the death of the call.

Less obsolete but more annoying than a handwritten letter, the phone call is fading as a mode of communication even if the nostalgic will be singing its praises for awhile. We reached a breaking point in 2008 when text messaging topped mobile phone calling in usage, and we’ve been living in a world dominated by text based communication ever since (Thanks Twitter).

If old media has taught us anything, it’s that it takes most industries at least a generation to be completely disrupted, especially something as powerful as Big Telco.

But we are definitely on our way there. According to Nielsen data, voice usage has been dropping in every age group except for those past the of age of 54. Text is just easier.

She also mentioned something that I have often said, but not yet written. And that is with regards to the iPhone 4’s alleged poor-reception hassles. People ask me if I have had any problems with it and I tell that I cannot comment, because I genuinely don’t make phone calls. They are COMPLETELY pointless, rude and ridiculous. What’s more they usually end with one of the parties having to email the other. Something they could have done in the first place to avoid this awkward, rude, one-sided encounter.

And if you don’t believe me, click here for reams upon reams of reasons.