Voicemail should be lower on that list, I'd rather take a call than check voicemail any day.
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I'm glad ring central let's you delete in mass and transcribes them. Not listening to that shit.
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About the same time that 99% of the incoming voice calls are scammers.
I don't want to talk.
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One thing that severely degrades the usefulness of the phone network is all the spam calls. It’s all I get these days. I can’t just call someone and have them pick up because nobody answers calls from unknown numbers.
It’s especially frustrating when I’m waiting for a call, like for a delivery, and have to pick up every unknown number.
ETA: Also, the immediacy of phone calls make them mainly used for emergencies. If I get a call from someone I know the first thought is “oh god what’s wrong?”
So I don’t call people because I don’t want to freak them out.
How is spam calls such a problem? Have probably had 2 cold calls the last 10 years. In norway you register on a goverment do-not-cold-call list and basically I have not gotten sales calls since.
Sadly, I live in the USA and do not have a functioning government. We can’t get health care, let alone reliable span call blocking.
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excellent point.
This was a teacher that told me in the 90s. “Phone calls are an invasion. When you call someone you’re saying ‘stop everything you’re doing and talk to me’. This was specially true when Caller ID was not a thing.”
Leaving a message equals to a DM or text. The recipient can respond later, but a call, it must be at that moment. It’s synchronous.
Leaving a message equals to a DM or text. The recipient can respond later
You've never met my wife.
It infuriates me when I'm talking to someone, their phone rings, and they instantly take the call while I'm still talking. It's like someone interrupting me and they instantly switch focus to the other person, like what they have to say is more important than me.
And it irritates my friends how I'll quickly check who it is, then ignore the call while someone is talking to me. "Aren't you gonna take that?" No, I'm listening to you right now.
And people who use text apps for synchronous communication are holding it wrong. I shouldn’t be expected to respond immediately to a slack message.
Your not. They have false expectations and that's their problem.
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I 'member when they used to be called PMs.
I guess they aren't private anymore.
They never were
Well, they were before we decided every scrap of data needs to be vacuumed up to the cloud for ~~marketing~~ reasons, in that no one in the 90s was wasting committing computing resources to scan them and the necessary storage/databasing to store them long term aside from an inbox. I can say with a good degree of likelihood that my IRC chats and maybe AIM/MSN convos are probably gone, and that's good thing.
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My username and the hundreds of others like it back on R*ddit indicates otherwise 😆
Your username is not proof that your messages on Reddit were encrypted and not visible by anyone but you and the other party…
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just because people used to trust the government doesn't mean they where ever trustworthy.
You're username proves nothing except you used to believe.
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