Some people call through and say things they may not otherwise feel comfortable talking about. More often than nont, people call to talk about nothing in particular.

One researcher in the medical building with a window view of the installation says, "AgoraPhone has changed my life. I call it all the time, several times day, both to talk with strangers and with people I know. If someone is coming to meet me, I tell them to meet at the orange phone sculpture in the courtyard, and then when I see them from my window I call AgoraPhone and surprise them by saying hello and that he will be right out to meet them."

Some people at the site of the AgoraPhone sculpture approach it on their own and ask if anyone is there and sometimes passers-by are beckoned to talk. A woman tells of her experience at the sculpture, "I was just walking by and someone said, 'Hey, anybody there?' so, I said, 'hello,' and they asked me how my day was going... But I felt kind of weird... Yeah, kind of self conscious, because I am talking to this person and I do not even know who they are and people are walking by seeing me talking to this thing... It is like talking to yourself in public if people do not know what it is... It is kind of like when you are talking on a cell phone in public only this is really big and out loud like your conversation is on speaker phone! I think if it were well known what it was, you know, if it was socially acceptable, then it would feel less weird."

Another woman reports, "I just want to tell you that it is really so wonderful. I was just over visiting my daughter. She works over there (pointing) on the other side of campus so she can not see the sculpture but she sometimes calls me here anyway. My son, he works right in that window (pointing to the biology building nearby). He calls me and he can see me and it is just so funny. We have the greatest time. It is just so fun. But my daughter cant see me when she calls, so we were talking about it and I was thinking maybe it could have some sort of camera so everyone can see who is at the phone here?" her son and daughter call and talk to strangers through the AgoraPhone, besides talking with her. Her son calls more often than her daughter.