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I'm from the last offline generation and don't hate the telephone, but the volume of spam calls my landline receives has to be 99% of rings. I may have gone to
by somehnacct3757 5y ago
I'm from the last offline generation and don't hate the telephone, but the volume of spam calls my landline receives has to be 99% of rings. I may have gone to bat for landlines if there wasn't the spam problem as I think they have upsides over cell phones. Way better sound quality, more consistent service, and answerable by anyone at home.
However, I have been getting 20+ spam calls a day for the last week and I am ready to get rid of the landline forever.
The generational decay would be much much slower if telecoms did their job.
- makeitdouble 5y agoI don’t know if phone calls decay is that much a generational thing. Our elderly parents stopped calling us and moved to Line the moment they had an iPhone (then an iPad), and even with their friends they seem to just hit the call button from the messaging threads. They still say they had someone on the phone, though they’re on third party services, so it seems it kinda just switched in their mind. Perhaps the same way we were switching between local calls, long distance calls, special operator calls in the offline days, but we’d still just think of it as phoning people whatever the actual service we were using behind.