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!
phone calls are sus these days
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
Good thing I don’t answer my phone unless I get a voicemail from the person
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.
Same, I’ll just read the auto transcription of the scam call, bill collector, or my mother later when I have the energy
Doing this has gotten me off most spam call lists.
…you answer your phone? I literally only answer the phone for my spouse unless I am specifically expecting a call. everyone else can leave a message.
I let my voicemail fill up. Send me a text mofos.
I got a call from my area that woke me up in the morning. I’ve got doctors and shit so I answer it.
No sound. Me, hello? No sounds. Then like someone trying to move the phone.
Me, Who is this? Gruff annoyed voice: Who is this? Me, fuck you who are you? Annoyed voice: uh… This is the city police fund raiser …Rude as hell.
“Like an adult”
An adult does not let their tools control them. And I receive one good call for every ten my phone gets.
Unless they’re in my contacts AND I want to talk to them I don’t answer
If I don’t know who it is then I’m not answering shit. I don’t even bother looking up the numbers anymore because they all come from spoofed caller IDs now, and if you answer you’ll get 1000 more scam calls immediately because now they know you’re dumb enough to pick up
With the growth of the internet… do we even need phone numbers anymore ? I mean my phone number exists just for spam. I’m mostly just paying for my cellular connection to access the internet and not because I need to have a phone number.
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.
Shit, I don’t even answer my fucking door
Anyone who would knock on a door is clearly casing the joint
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
Wait what? How do you do that?
It only works on pixel phones. Basically a Google boy answers for you and makes them questions. You read the questions and decide if you wanna pick up.
I meant like how as in how do you turn it on, I have a Pixel phone
Go to the phone app. Then press the three dots on the top right. Then settings and the spam and call screen. Finally press call screen.
Oh huh. Turns out it was enabled by default, I just didn’t know how to use it.
Starts answering phone like an adult …
“Hello this is the law enforcement agency that does not exist in your county and we are about to arrest you for tax violations” hangs up “Hello company you have have never used before is chasing a bill” hangs up “Hello delivery company not operating in your country has a package for you” hangs up “Hello road toll company that does not exist in your country has outstanding toll” hangs up “Hello as a user of a service you have never used we just want to ask“ hangs up
Nah. I’ll keep letting these clowns go to voicemail.
I just get voicemails in Chinese. If China’s planning on arresting me I’ll never know…
“Years later on his death bed, Lemmylefty discovers he had a distant cousin with no other family connections who’s lawyers had been desperately trying to reach out to inform him that he was the sole recipient of his will … but you can only get access if you pay the legal fees to be paid in $5k of iTunes gift cards.”
If it’s a an expected country code, answer the phone.
If it’s an unexpected country code, leave it alone.
Does this work somewhere? In Canada, spam calls are always my country code (which is shared with the US). Area code means little these days, too. Spammers will just spoof numbers.
Well it is a decent first level of defense. I usually get foreign country codes. But obviously don’t trust local numbers either. Let them introduce themselves (don’t introduce yourself) and ask if you can call them back in a minute. In the minute, check if the number is really who they claim to be. Then call the number if it matches and you are interested in the conversation.
If it’s a phone call, leave it alone. They’ll leave a message if it’s important.
If it’s important, there might not be time to wait 5 hours for you to check your messages, hence the phone call
