Do what I did and just cancel the subscription. It’s worthless! What’s a phone for if you can literally connect with anyone using any other means.
In 20 years cell phones (as phones not portable computers) went from a tool that united people in new and exciting ways to a way for solicitors to spam us. It’s to the point that I don’t know anyone who answers their phone if they don’t have the caller’s number saved.
This is a choice that we have made. We could legislate this behavior and we as a society choose to act as if it is inevitable.
Funny related story: someone in my city signed up for a mortgage but used my phone number on accident. I got 40 spam calls the first day, and still get calls about it years later. I even got a message from one of his friends one time looking to catch up. His name is Brian and he works at a local restaurant as the GM, I learned all this just from info fed to me by third parties.
I have a Steve that did the same thing. A lot of people contacted me over the years about him wanting to see if they could buy his property. I finally said yes, and that was the last I heard from any of them.
I don’t care if Monday’s spam
Tuesday’s spam and Wednesday spam
Thursday I don’t care about spam
It’s Friday I’m in spamMonday you can spam apart
Tuesday Wednesday spam my heart
Thursday doesn’t even spam
It’s Friday I’m in spamSaturday spam
And Sunday always spams too late
But Friday never hesitate…My dad was complaining how the younger generation doesn’t answer their phone anymore and I had to explain it’s all scam calls now and it’s his generation that keeps the scammers in business
I’m likely your dad’s age. Strange that he wouldn’t get this concept. Even if you’re in my contacts, I’ll text before I call to ask if it’s ok. Even with my own spawn, I don’t just up and directly call her.
That’s always seemed odd to me. I’m personally not a fan of texting, I always just call people. They answer or they don’t, and they’ll either call back when they’re free or text and we go from there.
For friends my own age, we’re all working sixty plus hours a week because hurray America and we live in different time zones. It’s a mutual courtesy to set a time to talk.
Ah the time zone thing makes sense. For all my buddies locally, we more or less know each other’s schedules.
I wouldn’t be too sure about that.
Gen Z falls for online scams more than their boomer grandparents do
I believe that. Also, think it will always be this way. Older generations experience way more scams than the young ones have yet to learn about.
I’ll call you and we can talk for a couple minutes, just so you can have a real call.
Username really checks out here
My condo offers free home phone as part of the amenities. No thanks, having a home phone just so you can be constantly harassed by telemarketers is not something that’s appealing to anyone who isn’t over 60.
I do contemplate the merits of having a home phone with the ringer perpetually on silent, and that being the only number I give out to places like Spirit Halloween whereas family/friends get the cell.
I have added my phone number to the do not call list and I have gotten 1 Spam call in 4 ish years
I did the same and get 3 spam calls a day.
