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[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

My sister is aggressively extroverted, and I am about as introverted. She insists on talking over the phone. All the time. I have to recover from it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

I'd prefer to talk on the phone, you get through way more like that

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

I have a sibling I have literally told to stop calling me who still calls me.

People are silly.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Next time you get a unknown caller, they won't be so unknown anymore https://www.truepeoplesearch.com/

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Are spam calls that big of a problem, where you live?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (6 children)

I'm guessing the mass here is from USA. People from EU, where regulations work better, what's your opinion on this?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

I'm from France, there's actually a law to force telemarketers to use certain phone ranges, which I've blocked.

During some periods, I have a call blocked per day, sometimes more, then nothing for a while.

I sometimes have the odd phone call that passes through, but unless I know I'm expecting a call, or it is from a number I know, I never pick up. It's usually spam anyway

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

I'm from the EU. I do the same. I hate getting calls. It forces me to drop everything I'm doing and suddenly switch contexts, which I absolutely hate. So I usually don't answer unless I expect the call or know the number. If it's important they can enter a voicemail or preferably send a message, either of which doesn't require an immediate response and is therefore a lot less annoying.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

from the various comments it looks pretty much the same. I have two numbers UK, and PL, and I get spam calls on both of them. It's gotten to a point where if I don't recognise a number and don't specifically wait for a call from somewhere I just ignore it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Yeah, i see that. I guess I'm just lucky then. I mean there's this one survey company that nags ppl, but you block their one number or ask them to leave you alone and that's it. And the boring sellers always get flagged by Google so that's filtered out automatically. Basically, whenever my phone rings, it's for me personally and it's a call I'd want to take.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

I tend to block numbers known to spam from a specific exchange, as well as those that duckduck throws shade on

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I literally just did this for student forgiveness spam. I use the Google call screening.

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Nah man, if it's not important enough for a call it must not be that important, if you text me I might not even open the message

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Nothing like a good voice conversation, face to face or not

[–] [email protected] -2 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Me answering a call because it's way faster and convenient than only texting like a nervous, terminally online teenager who is trying to stigmatize using a phone to make phone calls: 🥱

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