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First, the technical know-how to use a VoIP number is not accessible to everyone. Maybe it's accessible to a good portion of people in the Bay Area because almo
by szhu 6y ago
First, the technical know-how to use a VoIP number is not accessible to everyone. Maybe it's accessible to a good portion of people in the Bay Area because almost everyone knows someone who works in tech, but there's a lot more people out there.
And second, if enough senior citizens were on VoIP numbers, I bet that's exactly where scammers would target next.
The solution you're suggesting isn't so much to switch to a product that's inherently better, but to switch to a product that only people who don't fall victim to scams are using.
- dylan604 6y agoActually, I wasn't meaning for it as a suggestion for seniors. I was just saying that it's not that far of a wild notion to wait to get a new number. Growing up, my family played the get a new unlisted number game, but it did not work until going without for an extended time. That was for a landline, so I skiped that story for one with a more modern version. There is something to the waiting for a period of time before just getting a new number. The VoIP story was more of a seed planting for anyone else that might be reading and interested. Senior or milenial, doesn't really matter to me who it might be that might want to to give it a shot. Plus, seniors tend to have family members that could help them set something like this up. Don't write those seniors off so lightly