Except that 90% of the time you answer and it just hangs up because it’s testing to see if the line is active to sell to telemarketers
It’s amazing how we’ve allowed a lack of regulation to completely destroy a fundamental form of modern communication. You basically can’t call a stranger and expect them to answer the phone, everyone is screening all their calls because more than half are scams!
Why would you answer it? If it’s important, they’ll leave a message. I’m not going to pick it up and risk having to deal with a scammer or something like that.
Shit, I don’t even answer my fucking door
Anyone who would knock on a door is clearly casing the joint
Why has this ladies laptop been given military medals and seen the global war on terrorism and desert storm?
Probably as she lives on coronation street, so she’s seen a lot of crazy stuff. Murders, rapes bombs etc. It’s not as safe popping into Rita’s shop for the newspaper and baked beans as it once was.
Fun fact - Gail from Coronation Street invented the hobby of dogging
This is one of the reasons I got a pixel. To be able to get a bot to answer,of they are real they get recorded and it gets transcribed. So I can tell if I wanna pick up or not. I would legit pay for this feature on an app
I have Bixby on my Samsung which I guess is similar?
If you know me you would have messaged in some format that is more reliable than calling on the phone.
If you called you either don’t know me or it’s important enough you can leave a message.
Yep! Every single time if it isn’t one of my contacts or my caller ID doesn’t know who it is. If it’s important they’ll usually leave a voicemail.
I have never really liked talking on the phone, even before the advent of cell phones. The fact that it seems to be fading more and more as a common communication tool is something I am honestly pretty happy about. Sure it means I have like 4 messaging apps on my phone, but I don’t really mind. Even work is all text via Teams.
It has probably been at least a year since I have made/received an actual audio call on my phone.
Sounds reasonable to me
If it’s a an expected country code, answer the phone.
If it’s an unexpected country code, leave it alone.
Yup, all the time.
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I’m not a hardcore privacy follower. So I use truecaller.
So sad that everyone’s talking about the phone calls rather than asking if Gail’s okay.
