Technology continues to make us ruder.

According to a Uswitch survey, Zoomers prefer texting over answering live phone calls from strangers and unsolicited numbers. They also refuse to listen to traditional voicemail messages from people they don’t know.

Instead of answering or listening, many Zoomers simply text: “What do you want?”

I think technology-enabled rudeness began with the invention of the answering machine. Some people began using them to screen calls in the 1970s — something considered extremely rude at the time, according to social scientist James Katz.

However, by the mid-1990s, Katz explained, more than two-thirds of U.S. homes had them — and half used them to screen their calls.

Still, it was considered rude to hang up on an answering machine without leaving a message — something that drove me nuts until the invention of *69 in the early 1990s.

By dialing *69, you could........

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