> Even without those two annoyances, the political spam texts are nightmarish. This was one of the biggest shocks I had moving to California. I eventually got

> Even without those two annoyances, the political spam texts are nightmarish. This was one of the biggest shocks I had moving to California. I eventually got fed up and actually replied telling them never to text me again and someone actually replied. That was when I learned that real people are on the other end of these things. It made it even creepier that my phone number was handed out, not to a machine, but to a real person.