old.people… always old people
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stupidcasey@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Completely unrealistic, nobody will keep there ringer on
MissJinx@lemmy.world 4 months ago
protist@mander.xyz 4 months ago
I’m also 43, and I and many of my friends call each other all the time
stiephelando@discuss.tchncs.de 4 months ago
33 and I’ve started calling people. It’s nice to just chat with friends and family
teuniac_@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I’m 30, same. It’s also much faster to arrange something.
Bluewing@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I absolutely hate text messages. I refuse to spend hours of my time sending text messages back and forth to solve a problem that a 60 second phone call could have disposed of.
mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
and I refuse to spend hours of my time listening to voicemails when I could have scanned a text message in 15 seconds
Bluewing@lemmy.world 4 months ago
This is why you actually answer the phone to prevent 300 voicemails. That’s on you if that happens. And I have repeatedly found that a one or two line text message NEVER conveys the whole message because people do not know how to create a cognizant thought. So I can either spend hours texting back and forth to get the whole picture or you can call me directly, answer my pointed questions, and be done in 60 seconds or less.
jj4211@lemmy.world 4 months ago
It really depends case by case.
If back and forth starts going, then it’s time for a call.
However text first to establish:
- Is it shorter to take care of in text. Particularly if one party of the conversation tends to be needlessly verbose, text can be a godsend to let you skim their BS and cut to the chase.
- If there has to be a conversation, when would be a good time.
MissJinx@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Oh I would 100% exchange texts for 3 and a half days instead of just calling. So much energy to call someone
peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 4 months ago
And if they do call and it’s an emergency they’ll leave a message anyway
Demdaru@lemmy.world 4 months ago
They’ll call twice.
Calling me twice in a row without good reason guarantees war, because I assume you’re literally dying.
RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 4 months ago
Hopefully it’s not an actual emergency that requires immediate answer
jj4211@lemmy.world 4 months ago
If it’s an actual emergency, call 911.
If it doesn’t need 911, society needs to accept that people are sometimes just not immediately available and be accommodating.
I will answer my phone if one of a handful of people call me if at all possible, but sometimes it just isn’t in the cards. It’s convenient to take care of seemingly urgent matters that way, but it’s not the end of the world if it has to wait a bit for someone to be actually available.
The world survived for centuries without the ability to immediately get a hold of everyone at a moment’s notice.
RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 4 months ago
Sucks if someone needs some urgent info from you, like a blood type or whatever for emergency contact reasons and they could have it, but you don’t like to answer the phone.
Nobody was saying you have to always immediately answer your phone. Just that there’s situations where a phone call is better than sending a text.
JeremyHuntQW12@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I always do. How could I hear it otherwise ?
stupidcasey@lemmy.world 4 months ago
jballs@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
It’s weird but at one point in the last 10 years, society just decided that everyone uses vibrate now.
baggachipz@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Not boomers, they love the constant dings and obnoxious ringtones to be as loud as possible.
mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
don’t forget the type sounds
SeptugenarianSenate@leminal.space 4 months ago
Let’s be honest with this one. Most are probably just too lazy or inept feeling to figure out how to turn them off for themselves. The phone companies seems to have their software install with max volume and haptics turned on by default.
Sprinks@lemmy.world 4 months ago
…and the call back ring tones. For about 5 years i hated calling one person in particular because id have to listen to Hey, Soul Sister every…fricken…time.
ITGuyLevi@programming.dev 4 months ago
I’m not a boomer but do love when my wife calls and everyone gets to hear the ever-classic ‘Helo Moto’ ringtone.
slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 4 months ago
When i was around 14, around the nokia 3210 times, we all made our own ringtones.we would download cheat sheets of music we liked and put it in and suddenly: friends theme song. One of my friend made a voice recording where he sang: “Telephone… Pick up. Telephone… Pick up”. Even now this is the funniest ringtone i have ever heard, and i had it as my own ringtone until my phone died. Even now when i hear a phone i can only think: telephone… Pick up!
slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 4 months ago
I don’t get that at all. I assume it’s partly some ADHD or autism or what do i know. I had a girlfriend who would unbuckle her seatbelt 5min before we arrived and the car would just beep louder and louder and whatever. It drove me insane. I know it’s just a minor thing, but i never understood how you couldn’t be bothered with that. Especially because it’s very easy to not do that. I never got used to it, when she did it when i was driving, i would just stop and wait until she buckled up again.
Schmoo@slrpnk.net 4 months ago
My dad’s ringtone is a motorcycle engine revving at max volume, and he never silences it. He also just lets it ring when he doesn’t want to answer.
yermaw@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
We decided that ringtone were bullshit exactly when we had the option to have any sound imaginable for free.
Before that…
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 4 months ago
that works great if you keep your phone in your pocket. if you don’t…
echodot@feddit.uk 4 months ago
Women in my experience point blank refused to keep their phones in their pocket and instead put it in the purse along with everything else so whenever it rings (assuming they even hear it in there) it’s always a mad dash to get it out before the person on the other end dies of old age.
Eq0@literature.cafe 4 months ago
I’ll apologize first: Sorry, kind internet stranger, you walked right in one of my pet peeves. (Now I feel morally justified in starting my rant with a level of emotional involvement that is totally and admittedly unjustified)
WOMEN’S POCKETS ARE A F****ING JOKE! Have you ever tried putting anything more that the glimmering sparkle of a summer night in a woman pants pocket? It either falls right off or tries to stab the kidney once the poor girl sits down. Usually both.
Because pants need to be stupidly skinny and form fitting, not made for comfort or for carrying anything!
My toddler’s pockets (2 years old) are bigger than mine!
/end rant, feel free to ring me up for extra rants on the subject
Bysmuth@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
I feel like i’ve become highly attuned to the sound of a phone and can hear it anywhere in a room. The disadvantage is of course a lingering stress whenever i get confused with a similar sound or someone elses phone