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"People still use phones?" For my social circle, phones have become fax machines -- archaic tech that you forget exists until required for some abnormal situat
by a_wild_dandan 3y ago
"People still use phones?"
For my social circle, phones have become fax machines -- archaic tech that you forget exists until required for some abnormal situation. My pocket computer's "phone" reference feels quaint, like those floppy disk icons on save buttons; except disk drives aren't so persistently, actively detrimental to my day that I must disable them.
So now, all unknown callers are automatically ignored. If it's important, they'll submit a proof-of-work voicemail. Otherwise, modern apps work perfectly for everyone, and the vestigial phone system can remain in the graveyard where it belongs, thank you very much.
- katzgrau 3y agoThis is the way I wish it could be (for me, personally), but some standardization among my friends is required. Which app do we tie our interdependence to? A very real question.
- baby 3y agoLiterally everybody I know uses whatsapp
- MissTake 3y agoPersonal anecdotal knowledge does not a standard make. I’d not be shocked if many in my circle use WhatsApp but since I’ve never used it myself - ever - I’d not know for certain. Neither statement makes the case for usage of WhatsApp a “standard” or not.
- ghaff 3y agoThere are 2 or 3 international people I use WhatApp with once in a great while. I've never used it with someone in the US and I bet a number of the people I communicate with via SMS would stare blankly if I suggested using WhatsApp.
- callalex 3y agoAre you young enough that most of your friends don’t have children yet?
- sgbeal 3y ago> If it's important, they'll submit a proof-of-work voicemail. If you don't use voice-over-phone, why keep voicemail enabled? i disabled mine in 1999 when i discovered that certain colleagues would use it to pass work tasks off to me when they knew i wouldn't be able to pick up the phone. They could then use that as an excuse to say, "well I passed it off to him, so it's his job now." The call history itself is enough info that someone tried to call me. A message saying, "it's me! Call me back!" is just noise at that point. (Obviously, only people i knew get called back.)