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otter ,

I don’t think anyone answers the phone now, unless they recognize the number.

Most of the calls I get are

  • spam
  • spam
  • someone sent me a time sensitive message, so they ring me once to respond faster
  • spam
echo ,

Yeah, I’m early gen-x and I only answer the phone if its a member of my immediate family and even then it’s 50/50. Capitalism ruins everything. Need to talk to me? Leave a message and I’ll decide if and when to call you back.

KoboldCoterie ,
@KoboldCoterie@pawb.social avatar

Everyone I want to talk to knows not to call me; I feel exactly the same. Phones used to be useful, but the sheer volume of telemarketers and scams have reduced it to uselessness. If it wasn’t for 2FA occasionally requiring a phone number, I wouldn’t even have one at this point.

ReversalHatchery ,

Same. In the last few years (2-3 probably, I don’t count) I don’t think I have given it out anywhere. I just pretend to not have a phone number, and if people think that’s weird I don’t care, deal with it. Nowadays if a service requires my phone number, I don’t need that service. Or in rare cases I’ll try to find a free online number for receiving a code, but that’s the only alternative I take.

metaStatic ,

2FA

Use an authenticator or Yubi key. SMS authentication is the worst possible method.

chiisana ,
@chiisana@lemmy.chiisana.net avatar

You don’t always have a choice as it is dictated by the service provider, but whenever possible, disable SMS based MFA and enable TOTP or something else. SMS based MFA is susceptible to SS7 MitM attack.

metaStatic ,

Settings>Do not disturb>exceptions>Caller in contacts

alt: Set default ringtone to silent, no vibration, Set people in contacts to custom ringtones.

colournoun ,

Also on iOS: Settings > Phone > Silence Unknown Callers

acosmichippo ,
@acosmichippo@lemmy.world avatar

in ios there is a phone app setting to silence unknown callers.

Maestro ,

American? I'm from The Netherlands and I get maybe 1 spam call every other month or so. And I've been using the same number for almost 25 years.

Midnitte ,

Must be nice to a functional telecommunications agency that has the tools to punish soammers.

otter ,

Canada, we face the same issues as the US for telecom stuff

umami_wasbi ,

Lucky me I rarely get spam calls

queermunist ,
@queermunist@lemmy.ml avatar

Meanwhile, boomers will spend hours talking to a ChatGPT script that has convinced them its the real Oprah Winfrey.

LucidBoi ,

hahahahaha im dying idk why youre getting downvoted

witty_username ,

Well obvs the bots got offended

Max_P ,
@Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me avatar

Texting is also damn convenient, I can deal with several conversations at once without having to pause the movie I’m watching.

Speaking on the phone doesn’t just tie your line, it ties your whole life too.

Dymonika ,

Sure works wonders if you’re busy with a chore. Laundry? Dishwashing (for the unfortunate souls without easy access to a dishwasher)? That’s the best time to call any yakker you know!

Carrolade ,

Another advantage of text, for me at least, is that I can read much faster than I can listen. This is why I prefer text articles to news videos, even though video can often offer extra visual information over what photographs can offer.

That said, I do somewhat agree with the article’s concern that live conversation is an independent skill and potentially has its own unique side-benefits that might be becoming rarer.

JesusSon ,
@JesusSon@lemmy.world avatar

I am Gen X (1970 give or take a couple of years) and I don’t answer shit. I look up numbers and rarely listen to Voicemails. If you know me and I want to talk to you, you will know how to reach me. Everyone else can get fucked.

I think it’s less generational and more fuck all this spam and scams.

witty_username ,

I read your message in Fred Durst’s voice

acosmichippo ,
@acosmichippo@lemmy.world avatar

in my voicemail greeting i tell people to text or email me.

beejjorgensen ,
@beejjorgensen@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

I’m the same generation. My flowchart is: known contact, answer. Unknown contact, voicemail. Automatic VM transcriptions are great.

ganymede ,

honestly i think this is due to unplanned voice calls essentially being broken technology now.

imagine we had 2020s email spammers while mail servers had 1990s spam filters, that’s basically where we’re at now with unplanned voice.

metaStatic ,

I always answer the phone.

Because if you're not in my contacts my phone doesn't even ring.

foster_hangdaan ,

This. I just set my phone to Do not disturb and only the calls from my contacts list are exempted.

acosmichippo ,
@acosmichippo@lemmy.world avatar

in ios the phone app has a setting to silence unknown callers.

Schal330 ,

“It’s the anxiety associated with real-time conversations, potential awkwardness, not having the answers and the pressure to respond immediately” - this hits the nail on the head for me about not wanting to be on the phone/teams call in the work place. Being pulled into a call with no context is my biggest nightmare.

southsamurai ,
@southsamurai@sh.itjust.works avatar

People answer phones?

It’s a meme among people that know me that you pretty much have to leave a message if a text won’t do. I genuinely can’t remember the last phone call I answered. Thinking back, it was when my dad was having surgery, and they give calls with updates. That was maybe three years ago?

But I’ve been doing that since I got my first answering machine back in the nineties. I fucking hate talking on the phone. Even as a teenager, if it wasn’t someone I was having sex with, it wasn’t going to be a long call. The only exceptions were my two best friends, and my grandmother. One grandmother just didn’t call to chat. The other only called rarely, and you don’t fucking ignore your grandmother. Neither grandfather was going to call either. My mom’s dad would drive over if he wanted to talk about something with one of us. The other was dead.

There are two people I would answer a call from, my wife and my best friend. But they’d never call outside of an emergency because they know I hate phones for talking. I probably would for my dad, but he hates phones almost as much as I do.

maegul ,
@maegul@lemmy.ml avatar

I mean, maybe a hot take, maybe not … casual/social voice conversations at a distance were never a good idea in the first place.

Not absolutely at least. A disconnected voice that can summon your attention at any time wherever you are is a weird, uncomfortable, unpleasant and maybe unhealthy thing.

Textual communication at a distance odd much more natural, as it matches the disconnected communication with a more formal and abstract medium.

tabular , (edited )
@tabular@lemmy.world avatar

A photograph of the hand puppet “Kermit the frog” inside an office with a smart phone. There is text above the photograph. Kermit is implied to be sitting on a computer chair, casually resting his legs up as if leaning them on a desk. Kermit is holding the phone and looking at it’s screen. The text above reads, “me waiting for my phone to stop ringing as I don’t use it for that”.

otter ,

This is part of the problem for me. I can’t dismiss the popup unless I hang up, and I don’t want to do that in case my number gets marked as “active”.

So I sit there and wait till I can use it again.

Also I appreciate the detailed alt text :)

acosmichippo ,
@acosmichippo@lemmy.world avatar

at least on iphone you can swipe away the notification without hanging up.

aoidenpa ,

This is soo me! Declining the call would pull more attention. I play dead.

seaQueue ,
@seaQueue@lemmy.world avatar

If: you’re a starred contact and call twice within 10 minutes and I happen to have the phone at hand and I’m pretty sure you have something important to say I’ll probably pick it up.

That happens about once or twice a year. We invented voicemail so we can speak when it works well for both parties.

toastal ,

I don’t mind a ‘phone call’ so long as it isn’t actually using a phone number where ISPs can spy, but using some encrypted service.

BellyPurpledGerbil ,

Everyone I need to talk to is in my contacts. If you’re not in my contacts, my phone doesn’t even ring. You go straight to voicemail.

I was fine with phone calls when I was younger. Now it’s mostly spam robocalls or scammers or both. Nobody seems interested in solving those problems.

3aqn5k6ryk ,

There is a setting in iphone that i enabled to silence unknown caller. Havent turn it off since i enable it. I usually ignore anyone who isnt in my contacts.

cheese_greater ,

Its a great feature but I’ll do you one better (or orthogonal):

There are apps that let you set block ranges so when you get a million calls from variations of something like 1-876-543-2109, you can block all of them with basically whatever granularity you need 1+ digits) It should be built in but you have to buy it for like $3-4, but absolutely worth it

trk ,
@trk@aussie.zone avatar

“A voice note is just like talking on the phone but better,” says Susie Jones, a 19-year-old student. “You get the benefits of hearing your friend’s voice but comes with no pressures so it’s a more polite way of communicating”.

Gross, voice notes are the worst of both worlds.

Text for things that are information critical, voice for things that are time critical.

Email for business (and keep the original chain going instead of starting a new one every time you think of something else to add!), text messages for associates, chat apps for friends and family.

Anyone who disagrees is wrong.

Midnitte ,

I mostly agree, but I think voice notes for close friends/family probably have a point.

At this point, I would also argue that texts/emails are also for time critical things since voice calls are essentially dead at this point.

99.99999% of the phone calls I get are spam. I haven’t gotten a new voice mail in like 6 months.

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