John found that people had stopped picking up his calls. This was true even of his mother, with whom he had a good relationship.
He assumed this was because people just no longer did phone calls anymore, until one day people also stopped replying to his texts.
After some trial and error, he found that he was being listed as a spam caller. He tried calling various tech support groups, but no one answered. He still felt less alone, though. That date in which he was stood up - maybe the woman had just never got his messages. Maybe people didn’t dislike him as much as he thought.