Why Won’t Millennials Call Me?
Maybe it all started with AOL Instant Messenger when they were teens. They created acronyms like PIR (parent in room), 9 or PAW (for parents are watching), and other secret shortcuts to secure their privacy.
This new technology changed the way they communicated, disrupting the late 1950s teen telephone culture celebrated in the famous “Bye Bye Birdie” number, “Telephone Hour,” that spread the word about Hugo and Kim getting pinned. And of course, cultural norms have changed since the “Telephone Hour” participants asked, “Did he pin the pin on? Or was he too shy?”
That’s a far cry from LH6.
My first experience with this phenomenon was several years ago.
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