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

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.

reallyzen ,
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I have an app that blocks scam/spam so irl I answer 100% but technically I only pickup 50%

Anonymouse ,

I’ve run the gamut with these apps and none seem to really work I’ve even tried a few paid ones. These days, if you’re not in my contact list or you don’t provide caller ID, I don’t answer.

Corno ,

Maybe around half of them. I don’t answer calls if they’re from numbers that aren’t familiar to me, as they could very well be robocalls/scammers.

EABOD25 ,

Probably 20-30%. I don’t answer calls from different area codes than mine

chahk ,

I’m in the opposite camp - never answer calls from area codes same as mine. Scammers now target numbers with same area code as the one they’re spoofing. If also the first 3 digits after the area code match too, that’s an even higher chance of a scam.

EABOD25 ,

I don’t have the same area code as the area I live in so it’s pretty simple to weed spam calls out

RandomVideos ,

Almost all of the ones i dont miss

I also miss most of them so its not a high rate

oxjox , (edited )
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100%. I don’t get any marketing or robocalls so it’s either family, someone from work, or someone from an appointment or delivery I have. At this point, I much rather speak with someone on the phone than sit around and text back and forth.

potentiallynotfelix ,

30%, my new mexico number gets a lot of spammers which just don’t get blocked.

Edit: I pretty much only pick up calls that I know or from a different state.

NomenCumLitteris ,

Personal: 0% unless it is a call with a planned time.

Work: 0% unless it is an in-house number of my organization. Communication can occur via email, please and thank you.

Coskii ,
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I pick up every call I’m aware of. Scammers, phishers, polls, and everything else. I love messing with people, and good luck with getting accurate poll results, I have a dice rolling app I use to answer the questions.

It’s even on a schedule for me now. The ‘TV company’ scam calls around 5pm to try me out, polling places seem to be weekend exclusives, and rarely I’ll get a noonish jingle from some other random organization.

About 40% of the scam calls automatically disconnect after 8 seconds, and the rest I get to play with.

HubertManne ,

I don't have mine on me except when traveling and I easily don't get to it before voicemail. Wish we had configuration on how many rings before voice mail or forwarding or such. So I miss a lot but a fair amount I will call right back. I will answer some I don't recognize but im in a passive job search. Preference wise its talk in person, then phone, then email, and I do my chat via email.

InputZero ,

All of them, but I’m also unemployed and looking for work. I can’t let me not answering my phone to be the reason I get passed over for a job. More often than not it’s a spam call but I can’t afford to let an opportunity for an interview go. It sucks, before this I would barely answer the phone for known contacts. If it can be said on the phone it can be said in text, in far fewer words too.

FergleFFergleson ,

Basically none at this point. Unless it’s recognized as coming from one of the handful of people in my address book, or occasionally if I’m expecting a call (like from a doctor or the mechanic or something). But otherwise there’s no point. No one that would contact me or that I would want to contact me would use the phone - they would text, IM, email, etc. The odds of a phone call being junk or a scam is far too high to bother with.

10_0 ,

Nice try scammer! I know your tricks!

ZeroTwo ,

3%. Mom, dad, and girlfriend. Anyone else nah.

ClassifiedPancake ,

99%. I just don’t answer Anonymous calls because nothing good comes from that.

But there was a time where I could not even answer unknown numbers because I was in some kind of spam database and got 5-10 calls a day. It went on for weeks and they changed the number every time. Simply hitting decline didn’t stop it. I ended up setting my phone to block all calls not in my contact list (while still looking into my caller list occasionally) and a few weeks later it stopped. Now I became more trustful again.

I don’t get calls often anyways.

chottomatte ,
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All of them unless I’m asleep while putting my phone on silent mode , or listening to the lecture , or I didn’t hear the ringtone

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