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I'd be surprised if there isn't a twillio-based system for this already...
I’m probably a bit the other way in that I get frustrated with text messages going back and forth and back and forth when a one minute phone call will sort everything out far more efficiently. Probably also has something to do with hating tapping away at tiny virtual keyboard on the phone, too. My teenage daughter seems very reluctant to make a phone call. Watching her try and organise something with her friends driv…
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Except that checking for a dial tone is mentioned later, so I’m going to go with ESL rather than ignorance of what a dial tone is.
His name is Jim Fisher, and he's from the UK. I do consider it likely he grew up speaking English.
I receive about 20 spam calls per day. In contrast, I receive about 0.2 legitimate calls per day. Google itself suspects that these are spam calls, because it pops up a bright red "SUSPECTED SPAM CALLER" warning when the phone begins ringing. And yet, I have found no option to have the phone automatically decline the call. There's not even an option to silence the ringer for any call not from my contacts; I actually…
Only ringing for people in your contacts is how a phone should work out-of-the box. But for some reason it is instead impossible. Another good idea: a phone call from an unknown caller should be alerted with a short text stating who they are and what they want.
I recently had to spend a lot of time on the phone to set something important up. It was a very frustrating experience. I would call them, and be met with a robocall. The robocall would not really have a section for what I actually needed to do, so I would stumble around and often end up at the wrong person. Often we were both confused and it wasn't clear what was going on. Every time I called, it's a different perso…
I receive about 20 spam calls per day. In contrast, I receive about 0.2 legitimate calls per day. Google itself suspects that these are spam calls, because it pops up a bright red "SUSPECTED SPAM CALLER" warning when the phone begins ringing. And yet, I have found no option to have the phone automatically decline the call. There's not even an option to silence the ringer for any call not from my contacts; I actually…
Android's Do Not Disturb function should allow a setting for allow calls from contacts only. Mine does at least. If that's not to your liking a third party app would most likely be all you need.
I will have to look into third-party apps. I never really considered it, as I use Google Voice and want to keep using it, and didn't really think about it maybe being possible to use Voice plus something else that deals with calls...it seems like Voice is already too intrusive to inject more stuff in there (my calls are already delayed by as much as a couple of seconds coming in and out because of Voice; seems like more would just guarantee that I can't answer legit calls before it goes to voicemail).
But, I do need to sort it out. Recently I've been getting multiple calls a day and have resorted to leaving my ringer off completely. My mom worries, though, if I don't answer for a while.
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In theory there's the national do not call registry: https://www.donotcall.gov/ In practice... there's some groups who are still allowed to call you even if you're on the registry. Others will just ignore it, and filing a complaint is difficult.
I added all my numbers to this list a year or two ago and shortly after the spam calls started. Even on numbers that are not publicly used. (I have Google voice as my primary number and it calls my mobile number and a voip desk phone. Now all three get spam calls. I had them for years and the voip and mobile numbers were previously clean. )
My changed relationship with the telephone became weirdly apparent when I watched the original WarGames movie recently. There's a scene where David (Matthew Broderick) is alone with McKittrick (Dabney Coleman) in his office being interrogated separated by an office desk. While they're sitting there the telephone on McKittrick's desk starts ringing, which he silently ignores keeping his eyes glued on David, who grows…
I've never liked the phone, but I really hate it these days when there are so many better ways to communicate.
> The problem is the medium. The problem is synchronous communication. The problem is the telephone. I hate telephones.
> I’m told that, in 1993, 2.5 million people in the UK had “telephone phobia”. That’s over 4%, similar to rates of arachnophobia. This is not unusual, and I’d bet rates are higher now. Everyone hates telephones.
> ...Asynchronous textual communication is how everyone communicates remotely now. It’s here to stay. Killing the telephone is a big market.
I don't hate telephones. I do however hate the implied (and quite arrogant) call to action in that post "I hate telephones and like chat, so we all should get rid of them and exclusively communicate via chat"