Do phone calls seem more intimate than normal one on one chats?

You pick up the phone and the person on the other end might not be looking into your eyes when they speak to you, but they seem to sound like they are right there talking directly into your ear. How much more intimate can communication be? Have you ever spoken into someones ear directly for twenty minutes in person? What do you think the result of that would be?

Maybe we should be able to smell the person on the other ends breath…that should bring it down a notch.