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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.

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 ,
@Coskii@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

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 ,
@chottomatte@lemdro.id avatar

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

Bluu ,

My phone is on silent 99% of the time, unless I’m expecting a call for something important. I miss most calls except for when I’m already looking at my phone, and honestly I rarely answer even if I see it. It works though. Most of it is spam. People close to me know I prefer texting.

eran_morad ,

Pretty much 100%, since i block all calls from unknown numbers.

xiao ,
@xiao@sh.itjust.works avatar

Close to 0%

gravitas_deficiency ,

This is part of why I straight up do not trust most “reliable polls”, because tons of them are still conducted via phone, and in the era of constant spam and caller ID, most people younger than boomers just don’t answer unknown numbers, and also don’t even have, and in fact have never paid for, a landline. Not to mention, I still have a west coast area code, and I live on the east coast, and most of my friends have area codes from wherever they grew up, not where they live now, so targeting by area code is often nonsense.

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.

trk ,
@trk@aussie.zone avatar

Pretty much never. Direct family only really.

Talking is for IRL, or actually urgent things. Everything else is a message or email.

Don’t ring me to discuss an email.

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