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Teenagers no longer answer the phone: Is it a lack of manners or a new trend?
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Re: Teenagers no longer answer the phone: Is it a lack of manners or a new trend?
#32I don't think its just teenagers. Unless I know the number or am expecting a call, I don't pickup either. Too many scam calls or sales calls.
I answer every call, and if it’s a scammer I talk to them as long as possible. They hate it. Haven’t gotten a scam call in months. I’m sure I’ve spent less time total this year dealing with spam calls by answering them vs. not.
Re: Teenagers no longer answer the phone: Is it a lack of manners or a new trend?
#33I'm in my late 30's and if it was possible I would block all incoming calls, except those from a whitelist.
Never seen it prescribed to manners if someone picks up a phone or not. Is that a US thing?
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#34I get 5-10 robo calls a day, can’t blame anyone
Start answering them, tell the robot the right things to talk to a human, and say this:
“You have made an unsolicited call to a cell phone. Per federal law, you are required to tell me the NAME and ADDRESS of your company so I can sue you. Do so now.”
No idea if any of that is true, but my scam call rates have dropped to less than 1/mo.
Re: Teenagers no longer answer the phone: Is it a lack of manners or a new trend?
#35Is it the fact that goddamned spammers have ruined phone calls for everyone?
Yes. The 90s was peak connectivity.
Re: Teenagers no longer answer the phone: Is it a lack of manners or a new trend?
#36This doesn't apply to just teenagers. Anyone younger than 30 has probably noticed this trend by now. The only people I answer the phone to are people I know who prefer that mode of communication. That list mostly consists of people older than me, with a few exceptions. For everyone else, whatever textual mode of communication is my preferred way to talk, since then I have a record to go back to, time to think to resp…
> Anyone younger than 30 has probably noticed this trend by now. I'm almost 40 and generally don't answer the phone. " What the f* are you doing calling me? "
I am well over 40 and when you don't schedule a call I wont pick up the call. Maybe I will call you back 20 mins later just to - passive aggressively - teach you that being called is annoying ...
Re: Teenagers no longer answer the phone: Is it a lack of manners or a new trend?
#37This doesn't apply to just teenagers. Anyone younger than 30 has probably noticed this trend by now. The only people I answer the phone to are people I know who prefer that mode of communication. That list mostly consists of people older than me, with a few exceptions. For everyone else, whatever textual mode of communication is my preferred way to talk, since then I have a record to go back to, time to think to resp…
I'm almost 40 and I only answer the phone if whoever is calling me messaged me to ask if they could call me.
Re: Teenagers no longer answer the phone: Is it a lack of manners or a new trend?
#38Re: Teenagers no longer answer the phone: Is it a lack of manners or a new trend?
#39All of my phone calls go straight to my email via an AI powered text transcription. Then that rings the terminal bell so the color on my tmux status bar changes and I'll call you back if/when I want to.
I can't imagine managing a phone any other way. Unless you're paying me a lot of money or you live with me (and even then there are limits) you do not have the right to my immediate attention.
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#40I’m middle aged and communicate almost exclusively via text for non-work stuff. But I’m often reminded about how easy it is for things to be misconstrued over text. Just the other day I sent what I meant to be an encouraging text to someone. Turns out I sent her into a spiral of self doubt by accident. It took a long phone call the following day to get us back on the same page.
What did you say???
I was praising her strengths but I guess they weren’t the areas she wants to be strong in. So she perceived it as not being important in those other areas.