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

submitted 1 month ago by 2001aCentenaryofFederation@fedia.io to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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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.

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[–] GreyShuck@feddit.uk 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Basically all of them.

A quick skim shows me that the only people who have called me this so far this year are:

Doctor
Dentist
Sister
Wife
Close friend

I expect that this would be much the same for last year too.

I have no reason not to speak to any of these.

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Must be nice not getting like 2-8 spam calls daily (no, that is not an exaggeration)

[–] GreyShuck@feddit.uk 5 points 1 month ago

I've had the same number for 24 years now. I have only ever had a handful of spam calls in total over that time.

I probably get one a month or so on my work number.

[–] OmanMkII@aussie.zone 1 points 1 month ago

I've found if you accidentally take a spam call it can be fun to string them along and waste their time for a good 30m if you've got time to kill, the humour is great but it also gets you blacklisted for a while and they stop calling