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Why Gen Z and Millennials Are Hung Up on Answering the Phone
Hi, you've reached the voicemail of Yasmin Rufo. Please don't leave a message as I won't listen to it or call you back. Unfortunately that isn't my answerphone message but do I, along with most Gen Z and millennials, wish it was? Absolutely.
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... A recent survey found a quarter of people aged 18 to 34 never answer the phone - respondents say they ignore the ringing, respond via text or search the number online if they don't recognise it. The Uswitch survey of 2,000 people also found that nearly 70% of 18-34s prefer a text to a phone call. For older generations, talking on the phone is normal - my parents spent their teenage years fighting with their siblings over the landline in the corridor only to then have their entire family listen in to their conversations. I used the landline for business calls only in the late nineties In contrast, my teenage years were spent texting. From the moment I received my pink flip Nokia on my 13th birthday, I was obsessed with texting. I would spend every evening after school formulating 160-character texts to my friends, removing every unnecessary space and vowel until the message resembled jumbled up consonants even GCHQ[1] would struggle to decipher. ...
The Uswitch survey of 2,000 people also found that nearly 70% of 18-34s prefer a text to a phone call.
For older generations, talking on the phone is normal - my parents spent their teenage years fighting with their siblings over the landline in the corridor only to then have their entire family listen in to their conversations.
I used the landline for business calls only in the late nineties
In contrast, my teenage years were spent texting.
From the moment I received my pink flip Nokia on my 13th birthday, I was obsessed with texting.
I would spend every evening after school formulating 160-character texts to my friends, removing every unnecessary space and vowel until the message resembled jumbled up consonants even GCHQ[1] would struggle to decipher. ...
====================== 1 - GCHQ - We are the UK's intelligence, security and cyber agency. Our mission is to help keep the country safe. www.gchq.gov.uk
#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-08-28 06:23 PM | Reply
I don't have this problem.....unless I suspect spam.
#2 | Posted by Tor at 2024-08-28 06:39 PM | Reply
@#2
Nor do I.
I receive mostly texts and emails from friends and family nowadays.
Though, oddly, I still keep my land-line, in addition to my cell.
Though the landline is VOIP, not the real "copper back to the central office" landline of yore.
My VOIP vendor also provides texting capability for that VOIP landline, and I do use that for 2FA.
#3 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-08-28 06:55 PM | Reply
Make a call. If they don't answer. Send a text.
#4 | Posted by ClownShack at 2024-08-28 07:00 PM | Reply
The Nerves are not amused.
www.youtube.com
Yes, this is the original. Blondie covered it.
Peter Case of the Plimsouls and Peter Collins of the Beat.
#5 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2024-08-29 01:33 AM | Reply | Funny: 1 | Newsworthy 2
@#5
Great tune.
And so apropos.
I had not known of the Nerves original.
thx.
The Nerves en.wikipedia.org
... Despite their limited lifespan and discography, the Nerves remain notable for many reasons. They were the founding vanguard of the Los Angeles punk and pop scenes that eventually produced the Knack, the Beat and the Plimsouls. ...
They were the founding vanguard of the Los Angeles punk and pop scenes that eventually produced the Knack, the Beat and the Plimsouls. ...
#6 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-08-29 01:47 AM | Reply
Nothing gets an answer or call to action quicker than a phone call (from a familiar number). Underrated ability these days.
#7 | Posted by GOnoles92 at 2024-08-29 08:59 PM | Reply
"Nothing gets an answer or call to action quicker than a phone call (from a familiar number)"
I get multiple calls from unknown numbers every day, Most of them these days are political. Otherwise, they try to spoof using numbers close you yours, like the first three digits, or the last four, just mixed in order, trying to get it close to a number they know you have.
Imagine my surprise one day, when I say MY NAME on the caller ID!
I laughed so hard, I didn't pick up!
#8 | Posted by Danforth at 2024-08-29 09:23 PM | Reply
My home number notifies me of SPAM RISK.
It's either ignored, hung up on, or showered with a tirade of foul language.
#9 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2024-08-29 11:39 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1
#5
That's really bad. No wonder nobody knows it exists.
#10 | Posted by DarkVader at 2024-08-30 11:44 AM | Reply
If you're not in my contacts, I won't answer. Leave a message and I will call you back if it's important.
I'm not going to have a long conversation by text either. Text messages had better be short and to the point.
#11 | Posted by Whatsleft at 2024-08-30 12:12 PM | Reply
This may also explain why polling has become questionable.
#12 | Posted by Whatsleft at 2024-08-30 12:14 PM | Reply
My wife and I put our former landline number on an Android cellphone. There are three flats in our building, and nobody has a landline anymore.
#13 | Posted by john47 at 2024-08-30 05:16 PM | Reply
#8
Same thing happened to me. Not in contacts, I don't answer. No message left, number blocked.
#14 | Posted by willowby at 2024-08-30 08:03 PM | Reply
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