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I can’t imagine why anyone ever answers the phone. I get at least ten robocalls every weekday. I don’t ever look at my voicemail and I haven’t answered a call in ages. Edit: I know I’m not alone because CNN just released a poll with no responses from people under the age of fifty, because they couldn’t reach enough of them by phone.
What's your phone for if not to answer when people call you?
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> I can’t imagine why anyone ever answers the phone. I get at least ten robocalls every weekday. I answer the phone all the time and it's always someone I know. I do not have a caller id display. Here's how I managed that. Only 4 people know my real phone number and are under orders not to add it to any digital address book. My phone number is registered to an alias. I pay for my phone using cash. My area code is in…
How do you get--and keep--a job? Have friends? Make medical appointments? Order pizza?
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For me, when playing/recording, it would really distract me (more than e.g. having a phone in silent mode so that when flow mode ends, I notice I'm hungry and need to wake up to the outside world, I can see who has tried to call). The Kraftwerk description sounds a bit eccentric to me. Their business model is about being eccentric, so no surprise there.
>For me, when playing/recording, it would really distract me I think this might be easier if you are working as a group and have a big clock on the wall. I am a rubbish instrumentalist, but do hang around with a hell of a lot of musicians, and 'how long was that' does seem to be one of the most commonly asked questions of each other when they are in a studio. Also, if paying for a studio, they generally become very g…
I'm from europe (the Netherlands). Everytime I see these american robocall threads it blows my mind. What about your system is so bad that allows this to go on? It's not a problem here at all.
Also, not many people on the planet speak dutch, so the addressable market is quite small.
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What's your phone for if not to answer when people call you?
This question reminds me of Kraftwerk's method of using a phone. I'd love a mobile phone that did this; >When the German electronic band Kraftwerk were in the studio, they refused to be disturbed. Working for hours on end, patiently perfecting their sonic arrangements, required zero interruptions. So much so that they even took the ringer out of the only telephone in the studio. So what happened when someone wanted t…
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The way a friend described it to me, if you have a child, and that child is out of your sight, you sort of have to be open to answering phone calls from your local area.
One thing I like with Google Voice is that it has a phone screen where you have to say your name and then it plays it back to me before I decide to accept the call.
I can’t imagine why anyone ever answers the phone. I get at least ten robocalls every weekday. I don’t ever look at my voicemail and I haven’t answered a call in ages. Edit: I know I’m not alone because CNN just released a poll with no responses from people under the age of fifty, because they couldn’t reach enough of them by phone.
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Wouldn't help here in the US. They almost always fake caller id from a local prefix.
70% of the spam calls I get could be stopped simply by blocking the exact same exchange that my number is in. Do spam callers really think I'm expecting a call from the same area code, same exchange as my own number? Do most people have friends that have phone numbers with the same first six digits in common with their own? I feel like this trick can't possibly work on anyone who has already seen it twice, and just b…
In the US, outside of the dense metro areas, this is a much more common than you think. For non-metro areas, it is quite common for everyone in the area (business and personal) with which you might receive a call has a number in the same exchange as your number.
But it is doubtful the spammers are considering that fact. It is much more likely they simply did A/B testing and saw a measurable increase in answer rate if the transmitted caller ID matched area code and exchange of the number they were dialing. And so they simply started using this trick, because their testing showed it worked.