Avoiding Calls And Texts

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I've done that.

 

I think I may have made a post like this a loooong time ago. I can't remember and I dont even smoke weed.

 

Yeah...I think we just had this thread a while back.

I don't mind texting. It's quick and there is no long conversation. As far as talking on the phone...I'd usually rather not but I take calls depending on circumstances. If I'm busy, I won't answer. Unless it's one of my kids. I will always answer the phone if they call, no matter what I'm doing or what time it is. They know this so they don't call if they know I'm usually busy at that time of day and it isn't important.

 

Yes, my phone has wires... And hardly anybody knows my number so it never rings unless it's family.

 

I have a phone because I've got stuff that needs to be communicated, and issues that need resolving. I'm not passive aggressive about it.

If you don't want someone to get in touch with you, don't give them your contact info, or tell them exactly when and how it is okay to contact you.

Don't be that asshole who always has a phone on them, but wants to act like nobody's allowed to call it, and like it's all everybody else's fault for making use of it - you're the one carrying the thing, and the people calling it are calling a number you gave them.

I totally get not always wanting to be available to everybody all the time - so those times are when I leave my phone somewhere or turn it off. The flip side is that it's often really great to be able to get in touch with anyone at any time, just don't do it too much and get in everyone's face all the time. I see that some people are less respectful of others than they used to be, because of how they've grown up in this instant gratification situation with cell phones. On the other hand, we all benefit greatly from them, and you are the one who chooses to have it.

I think it's largely you having unrealistic expectations about how important things should be - it's a phone call, not a message from god - and you trying to blame others for your social inability. Sometimes I don't want to talk to people, and that's fine, so I don't, but you're acting like the problem is them for wanting to talk to you. It sounds like you're passing the insecurity/irritability buck.

 

I mainly use my smartphone for surfing the internet when i'm at my parents or in the train, and also the youtube app at home. I still have to put my SIM card in it. Once that's done i will probably use whatsapp a lot too.

 

My phone is with me all the time but it's also always on silent, if I miss a call they will call back. Not many people call me anyway but if they leave a voice message there is no hope I will get back to them because when I get a text that says I have voice mail, I delete it and never check. They will call back if it's important.

 

i have so little use for them that i don't own one. thus no problem with this aspect of it.
the only problem i have, is there are some things people won't even take my money for, (like to rent an appartment of my own by myself)
because they think if i don't have a phone, a car and a credit history, i must be some kind of begger.

the fact that i have a reliable income and money in the bank, doesn't seem to even be on their radar.
i have e-mail. why the fuck should i have to pay for a phone, i would almost never use?
just so some spook shop can know where i am? i'm not threat to any one or anything, unless honest words are THAT scarry.

don't get me wrong, i don't dislike people, by why in the hell should i have to pay, for the "privalege" of living in an effing fish bowl?

 

I'd much rather text, but I have to answer the phone for my husbands business. Sometimes I leave my phone at home or shut it off if I need a break or want to fall off the map for a while.

Sometimes I miss the olden days, when we weren't so attached to our devices, and talking on the phone was much more enjoyable.

 

It's all between our ears I'm not that attached to my phone (even the one i can call and text with ). But then again; I didn't really enjoyed talking on the phone when there were only landlines either. It can be annoying to see others are overly attached to it.

 

i don't remember that at all.

i guess prank calls were more enjoyable before caller ID, but i never really got into doing that either.

 

Avoiding calls.... Easy!

 

I used to talk on the phone for hours and enjoy it. Now I only talk on the phone if I have to.

 

Mmmhmm. I've set my phone with different ring tones and noises so I don't have to look at who's calling me or anything, I just associate by sound.

For instance most of my family I have set as a railway train. So when I hear the horn most of the time I won't bother getting my phone because it's always bloody dramas they ring me for. Seems living far away from them means I'm the go to person when they want to complain. That's all well and fine, but if I'm not in the mood I won't bother when I hear that train a comin'.

Other friends have different tones. Some tones are upbeat and they are used for friends that I will always answer. I like the ringtone I like the friend.

And then I have a tone for my partner, it's really funky and I like it.

Then I have my every day who the fuck is this ring tone.

Though most my ringtones are quiet and discreet. A noisy phone often pisses me right off.

 

I Usually Turn Mine On Every Two Months Or So To Check Messages And Charge It.

I Really Only Have It For Emergencies Like Breaking Down Or During The Bushfire

Season, But There Is A Downside To Leaving It Off As I Discovered Recently When I

Checked It Last Month There Was A Voice Message From A Longtime Friend Saying

Her Father Had Just Died And To Call Her In A Few Days For Funeral Details, When I

Read The Message It Was Two Months Old.

Second Message Was From My Lawyer Saying Since I Was Not Returning His Calls

He Would Put My File Aside Till He Heard From Me.

Both Of These Misses Could Have Been Avoided If The Caller Had Just Rung Me At

Home, I Wish Peeps Would Listen When I Say DON'T RING THE MOBILE RING THE HOME

PHONE......Le Sigh... :wall:



Cheers Glen.

 

I actually like talking on the phone, it just has to be with the right people. I don't like calling businesses but I don't mind talking to friends and family. I like texting but I also hate texting. I'd much rather talk.

 

never having tried to run a business myself, but it occurs to me, if someone is doing so, and the phone is a part of it, there probably isn't really much choice then to put with what other people who are doing the same thing.

you don't have to hate people, nor be indifferent to what they experience, to not find them very interesting. and i don't. and it wouldn't or doesn't surprise me that most people don't find me very much so either. its just a matter of i have very different interests then most people. i'm not saying better or worse. i don't mean that as a judgement of people or anything like that either.

that being said, and not trying to run a business of any kind, the cost of having phone, is just way more then the amount of use i would get out of it.

when i did have one, i mean a cell, when i wasn't in a place i could have a land line of my own (do landlines even still exist? i suppose they must. wi-fi base stations and routers must be connected to something),
i got more use out of it as a pocket watch, and playing tetris to pass the time while waiting for a bus, then actually as a phone, to communicate with anybody.

 

ha, i do this too. well, my mom, wife and brother each have special ones. and almost no one else calls me.

so i'm not quick to answer my phone because i'm too busy or too important...if it's not one of those three people, it's probably a telemarketer or phishing scam.

 

I don't have a cell. I'm sure if I did though, I would keep it on vibrate and not answer it.