I'm there with you    I have a landline because I don't have a cell phone I pay for... my phone is through work, and I mostly use it for that purpose.   My wife and 14 year old both have trac phones for emergencies... I suppose I might get one too if I changed jobs, but I wouldn't get rid of the land line, that's mainly what people use to contact me.

I pretty much don't answer the phone if it's not someone I know, and then I only answer about 1/2 the time

I hope none of us ever have to call someone from these boards.
Most of us either only have landlines or work cell phones, or we don't answer our phones, or we are true a-holes (me) who just never want to talk on the phone.
We are a sad bunch.

I'm not a Millenial, but I rarely make voice calls anymore. E-mail and text make up the majority of my communication, esp. for utilitarian purposes. Voice calls have their place though. Anything requiring extended conversing is done more efficiently with people actually talking versus typing and waiting for replies. Also any potentially "sensitive" conversation where there's the possibility of being misunderstood and causing drama is better off done over phone versus e-mail or text. If people need to hear your tone of voice or emotional content of your words, text communication will just cause problems.

Not weird at all. I'm the exact same way, in that I prefer to communicate by writing as much as possible and over the phone as little as possible.

I sometimes give handwritten notes to my wife just so I can avoid speaking to her...

I'm joking, but that's seriously not the worst idea I've ever had.

Just be aware...e-mail is considered antiquated/passe by some too. I get the "why do you bother with e-mail, I never check it, just text me or message me on facebook instead, it's the way people communicate now you know..." from friends and acquaintances in their mid-late 20s and younger (mostly from my wife and I's gaming group). Now my wife has an Iphone she swears by, but I don't own a cellphone and I don't have a facebook account, so I can't text or drop them a message on their pages, so I surmise I must be getting as old as I feel, but then I have been a Luddite in training for the past decade, so I don't really care.

We still have cable (my wife wants access to some of the channels as well as the stuff we watch regularly but could get via other means. I would like to have MLB Network and NESN, but I would have to add a tier with about 30 channels I would never watch (The Premiere Sports tier) to get them and it would cost far more than those 2 channels are worth to me to get, so I have no real attachment to cable if we dropped it, but like I said, my wife wants it, so we keep it and bundle landline, cable and net access together. If cable would get its ac together and offer an package where you could pick your channels a la carte, I would be much more inclined to keep it since I could tailor what I got to my preferences, and according to some of the business articles I read in the wake of Comcast's lawsuit against DirectTV over the Rob Lowe commercials, all wired providers are seeing significant loss of subscribers as new alternatives are eating into their customer bases and regional monopolies, and they will have to find new business models to compete against these providers, so I hold some small ray of hope that change will come.

-M

People I actually know can Facebook message me or text me. If I'm communicating through email it's work related or involving a purchase/sale online or through Criagslist or whatever. I used to do a lot of that, it's been my primary income here and there, so I tend to stay pretty connected even though it's less so for work reasons now. I check my various messages on my phone every time I catch a break throughout the day, and that includes email and Facebook messenger.

The advantage of amazon prime is really the shipping. Everything else is gravy. Where I live, I get free 5-7 day shipping with prime, which is much less attractive than the free 2-day shipping, but I am keeping it for now.

Their interface on my google tv is unusable. It has good apps for my blu-ray player and fire stick. The streaming quality is generally inferior to netflix. In terms of selection, it having the HBO shows had been a huge plus. That's how I watched The Wire. But now I'm getting HBO GO.

The music is improving. Google play music's interface is so much better, but also so much more expensive. I hope amazon music improves its usability, then I get stop subscribing to google play music.