I hate telephones
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I hate telephones
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#2Same for doorbell. I flat out won't answer the front door if someone rings it and I'm not expecting anyone.
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#3Sounds to me like this guy has an anxiety disorder that he's masking as a hatred of phones.
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#4Me too. No land line, no mobile. I don't have an anxiety response as detailed here so much as a properly calibrated respect for my own uninterrupted time. Job wants me to get a mobile phone but we'll see. Email makes sense: it's a pull interface. If you want a push interface to communicate with me you'll have to ring my door bell
I recently made the mistake of helping carry the load at work by answering the phone there. It's alright, mostly scripted, & my lack of customer friendliness (Surprising the amount of silence yes/no answers invoke) will hopefully transition us away from having a developer handling support calls soon
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#5I wonder if this might be a general trend as the bulk of communication has pretty much already moved to text. If not outright phobia, at least dislike of the medium of 'speaking' would seem to be likely.
More companies might need to accelerate towards offering text/chat options for their customer service if they don't already. It may not directly put a customer off, but it might be another signal in a list of comparisons that pushes the scales in favour of a competitor.
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#6async ftw
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#7I'm about to ditch my landline and one of the main reasons (in addition to not using it much) is that legitimate calls are far outnumbered by junk calls. I don't answer numbers I don't recognize but it's still a distraction.
There seems to be some principle in play where the misuse of a communications channel rises to the point where it's annoying but not quite unusable. If I got 20 junk calls a day, I'd have to turn my phone off. As it is, it's at nuisance level but still usable.
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#8Sounds to me like this guy has an anxiety disorder that he's masking as a hatred of phones.
Yeah, let's make diagnoses of people we don't know because of some blog post.
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#9This would be appropriately titles “i hate anxiety disorders”
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#10I'm about to ditch my landline and one of the main reasons (in addition to not using it much) is that legitimate calls are far outnumbered by junk calls. I don't answer numbers I don't recognize but it's still a distraction. There seems to be some principle in play where the misuse of a communications channel rises to the point where it's annoying but not quite unusable. If I got 20 junk calls a day, I'd have to turn…
Out of curiousity, when were you born? I was born in the 80's, and among my friends literally noone has a landline, not even the older ones. There's simply no argument for it. I'm in northern Europe by the way.