Asklemmy

43855 readers

1646 users here now

A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions

Search asklemmy 🔍

If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!

Open-ended question
Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
An actual topic of discussion

Looking for support?

Looking for a community?

Lemmyverse: community search
sub.rehab: maps old subreddits to fediverse options, marks official as such
[email protected]: a community for finding communities

~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_[email protected]~

founded 5 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

What percentage of phone calls (to your personal phone) do you answer? (fedia.io)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

44 comments fedilink hide all child comments

I'd say I'm hovering around the 60% mark.

I don't answer calls from numbers I don't recognise, unless it identifies someone I'm expecting a call from with the "maybe" thing. I don't use my phone for work (often). I don't call people to catch up, I'd rather IM. My mother or my best friend call and I ignore them more often than I probably should.

But really I just don't like talking on the phone that much.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

0%.

If I don't recognize your number I'm not answering the phone. Unless, I specifically am waiting for a call, like from an archaic doctor's office, or to get a verification of something. That is the only circumstance I will answer a unknown number from.

Even then, I use a voice answering service, that asks the person to identify themselves, and then I am told who is calling. So if that's not filled in I still don't answer.

Then, if they get to voicemail, and they don't leave a voicemail message, they're obviously spam... And I'm vindicated by not answering the phone

90% - If I recognize your phone number, I will answer the call if I'm not in a meeting. If you call multiple times in a row, I will leave the meeting to answer your call. But it better be an emergency or we're going to have some feedback to go over...

Also, the people who call multiple times instead of texting and then calling, really really really really really need to stop doing that. If it's an emergency call, text, call again. Because of the call I'm going to pay attention to what the text message says. So I can see oh it's a f****** emergency. If you're the kind of person who leaves a voicemail message, or text message, that just says call me back as soon as you can. F*** you. Learn how to communicate

[–] tburkhol 3 points 2 months ago

I got my current number around 3 years go, and the vast majority - easily 95% - of calls I get are still real estate, political, or job search spam for the previous owner. It's on permanent DND, but I'll check the text log every day or two.