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Coincidentally, I recently had a family member involved in a terrible accident and I was the first person called by the police officer (an unknown number) becau

Coincidentally, I recently had a family member involved in a terrible accident and I was the first person called by the police officer (an unknown number) because I appeared first in my family member's phone (and I subsequently had to relay the news). As such, I don't care about robocalls because you really never know. Even if the probability is low, I'd rather be bothered in those situations. I just stopped caring about something that ultimately doesn't matter in the big picture. Back to the point, I think it was staged, but more to illustrate the CEO also is getting robocalled. If he sat up there and just said it, who wouldn't roll their eyes and say "yeah sure". Without being in the right place, recording at the right time, there is literally no way to convey "I'm having this problem too", even then, there'd be skeptics.

dmckeon 8y ago
I hope your family member is recovering, but if the police officer had not reached you from the officer’s phone, would they have tried calling you from your family member’s phone? Was your number in your family member’s phone tagged with an “ICE” (“In Case of Emergency”) or some local equivalent, so emergency service-folk know who to call, and could you green-list calls from their number? More generally, what chances of a call being an emergency contact versus a spamming robo-call are people willing to accept? If I had a hemophiliac child, or an at-risk geriatric parent, I would be far more willing to accept all calls. Since I do not, I use a robo-call blocking service (Nomorobo, but any of several would do, if/until Stir/Shaken works.)
- tsumnia 8y ago
  Unfortunately the phone's screen was shattered during the accident (made inoperable); I am unsure how I was the one contacted, though I doubt I was their ICE. I assume it was a simple "My first name starts with an A and we shared an uncommon last name". To that degree I don't really care, I'm happy we were contacted immediately. With the scenario experienced, as I said, I don't really care about robocalls. There's that old saying about "If it won't matter in 5 years, don't spend more than 5 minutes getting angry about it". With that in mind, I just sort of filter out the annoyance. Yes, robocalls are annoying, but again, I prefer it over rhacker's alternative of finding out about important things later. There were posts on here months ago about how Facebook had a pretty aggressive notification process for users that started leaving the service. I'd stopped posting on there shortly after the accident because my posts became more about my family's status - if felt cheap/dirty/not-right to then post about a meme or something silly. The notifications annoyed me, so I disabled social network notifications and generally "stopped caring" about these types of minor annoyances overall. My point is that I agree that robocalls are annoying and, sure, I hope someone gets fed up enough to attempt to fix them, but in the grand scheme of my life and happiness, eh. If it happens, it happens, if it doesn't, it doesn't.

dmckeon 8y ago

I hope your family member is recovering, but if the police officer had not reached you from the officer’s phone, would they have tried calling you from your family member’s phone? Was your number in your family member’s phone tagged with an “ICE” (“In Case of Emergency”) or some local equivalent, so emergency service-folk know who to call, and could you green-list calls from their number? More generally, what chances of a call being an emergency contact versus a spamming robo-call are people willing to accept? If I had a hemophiliac child, or an at-risk geriatric parent, I would be far more willing to accept all calls. Since I do not, I use a robo-call blocking service (Nomorobo, but any of several would do, if/until Stir/Shaken works.)

tsumnia 8y ago
Unfortunately the phone's screen was shattered during the accident (made inoperable); I am unsure how I was the one contacted, though I doubt I was their ICE. I assume it was a simple "My first name starts with an A and we shared an uncommon last name". To that degree I don't really care, I'm happy we were contacted immediately. With the scenario experienced, as I said, I don't really care about robocalls. There's that old saying about "If it won't matter in 5 years, don't spend more than 5 minutes getting angry about it". With that in mind, I just sort of filter out the annoyance. Yes, robocalls are annoying, but again, I prefer it over rhacker's alternative of finding out about important things later. There were posts on here months ago about how Facebook had a pretty aggressive notification process for users that started leaving the service. I'd stopped posting on there shortly after the accident because my posts became more about my family's status - if felt cheap/dirty/not-right to then post about a meme or something silly. The notifications annoyed me, so I disabled social network notifications and generally "stopped caring" about these types of minor annoyances overall. My point is that I agree that robocalls are annoying and, sure, I hope someone gets fed up enough to attempt to fix them, but in the grand scheme of my life and happiness, eh. If it happens, it happens, if it doesn't, it doesn't.