“Give me your email address so I can call you!” she said.
At first, I thought I misheard. She must have have muddled “call” and “write.” So I asked for clarification.
“Whatever. Call. Write. I prefer to call people at their email addresses. Or message them.”
Then I realized that she was referring to a FaceTime conversation, using her email address (an @cloud.com thingy), which she used interchangeably, and in fact, indistinguishably, with SMS/MMS. And I had a series of discomforting thoughts about the pros and cons of paying attention to extricable components within what I’ll call The Big Munge. By that I mean the grand unified stew of communication protocols and data that Millennials kids these days consumers interact with so differently now, and have so many different assumptions about.