It is just me, but it's also a _lot_ of people in my industry. Nobody should be making blanket statements because there are always exceptions!Well that's you , most of the people i know especially in the law department where i work never use e-mail outside a few notifications and we communicate everything via phone calls with our clients.
To each their own but the guy up there said it like the whole world keeps their phone on silent nowdays which is completely untrue.