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I thought only old people still used the phone for making calls.
by bigbacaloa 4y ago
I thought only old people still used the phone for making calls.
- topspin 4y agoThing is there are a lot of old people.
- politelemon 4y agoAnd there are more being created all the time!
- Markoff 4y agoYeah, but new old people bring their habits from younger years like not using phone for making private calls.
- topspin 4y agoYou'll need a few years yet for that. Most old people around today used rotary phones unironically.
- kelnos 4y agoHell, I'm not even that old (41), and we had a rotary phone until 1988 or so. We also had a touch-tone cordless phone, but the corded phone in the kitchen was still rotary. I expect there are even younger people than I who used rotary phones as kids.
- xxs 4y agoThat would depend on the country, yet I'd consider late 30s to be the age. Also I am using the phone daily to call anyone - family, coworkers. It'd appear, around here, the ear buds have not caught up.
- LinuxBender 4y agoEven rotary cell phones [1] I'm old but that is too much for me. I just bought my first smart phone and spent a while in developer mode quieting it down to extend battery life so some old people can do this. [1] - https://skysedge.com/unsmartphones/RUSP/index.html https://skysedge.com/unsmartphones/RUSP/index.html
- topspin 4y ago> so old people can do this Some can, many won't. Eye sight and dexterity problems have a lot to do with this. When you can't see and your hands shake it's a lot easier to just "hey google call so-and-so."
- LinuxBender 4y agoFair point. Edited my comment to include some.
- kenniskrag 4y agoAnd all of them were once the youngest people on earth.
- loloquwowndueo 4y agoDefine “old” :) Also even those of us who don’t ca that much, do receive calls since some entities still prefer to call you (government, medical, education). It’s either that or snail mail - despite the fact that most of them have my email address.
- bigbacaloa 4y agoLike many comments in this site, this is very US centric. Where I live (in Europe) no government entity calls anyone. They might send an SMS as confirmation or notification, but formal communications are sent electronically. Nobody under the age of about 45 calls on the phone as a regular matter.
- loloquwowndueo 4y agoWell I’m not in the US :)
- Markoff 4y ago> I thought only old people still do phone calls for private communication. FTFY Just yesterday I received spam call, my only response was answering with "Yes?", then when they started to talk about something I just hang up without a word, they wasted enough of my time and energy. Private matter I communicate 100% through IM or video calls within IM, it must be very rare ocassion that my retired father calls me on the phone or that I have to call wife because she is not responding to IM.
- xxs 4y ago>they wasted enough of my time and energy. compared to the myriad of ads plastered everywhere. I suppose the latter has just been normalized - yet the amount of 'energy' (as in joules; or as in human frustration) is unparalleled compared to the one spent on unwanted calls, or just calls.