We have gotten into the era in which communication is instant and in real time 24/7 if we allow it to.  We no longer have to send snail mail or check our landline answering machine at the end of the day.  We have a cellphone and it's pretty much inseparable from our physical body.  We are hooked to it by the hip.

With it the meaning and significance of contacts also shift.  

For us women especially the…