Comment on This is also when I conveniently forget you called, making your preferred method of communication incredibly slow compared to texting.

danekrae@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• rockerface@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Usually friends and family actually care about respecting the wishes of the person they’re trying to contact. That concept might be unfamiliar to you.

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  • theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Nah you’re 100% in the wrong here, and it’s wild that you bring up respect, as if this attitude and behavior isn’t incredibly disrespectful. Calling someone is literally not disrespectful. What the fuck is wrong with people

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    • Cenotaph@mander.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Isn’t it? On a cell phone it demands that I drop what I’m doing at a moment’s notice and respond to your inquiry. Unless it is something time-sensitive, the call probably should have been scheduled or a text message would have served the purpose without demanding an instant response

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      • klemptor@startrek.website ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Right? IMO it’s rude to just call someone out of the blue and expect that they’ll be able to drop everything to chat with you.

        Unfortunately, my mom loves to call unannounced, and because my parents are getting older I feel the need to answer in case something’s wrong.

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      • unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Yeah its like walking into a room without knocking, while in talking to someone and just screaming at the top of your lungs. “WE NEED TO TALK RIGHT NOW”

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      • Matombo@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Phone rings

        “Hi, do you have time for the call now?”

        “No, Im busy right now, I will call you back.”

        Where disrespectfull?

        Way faster then text!

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    • eneff@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      you need to chill

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    • LwL@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Not a single person in my life has ever had an issue with the fact that i prefer to be texted and reserve phone calls for more immediate issues. My time belongs to me and no one else so I have no obligation to answer people, and text is faster to parse for me and always has a protocol available if I need it later.

      Calling someone isn’t disrespectful. Calling someone that has made it clear they do not want to be called except for emergencies is. In my case I’d just mute all calls from them after it happens the second time.

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• ReplicantBatty@lemmy.one ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  My friends and family know not to call me unless somebody is dead or dying. It’s worked out pretty well so far

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• explodicle@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  They’re on a whitelist. Random numbers are not entitled to your attention on demand.

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• eronth@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Yeah, they are lucky to have me. Instant access to me via phonecall is not one of the reasons, but that’s fine because they don’t need instant access via phonecall.

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