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as far as i’m concerned that’s a weird edge case. Most of society uses a phone at least once a month for something, unless they’re young and have no responsibil
by lurking_swe 2y ago
as far as i’m concerned that’s a weird edge case. Most of society uses a phone at least once a month for something, unless they’re young and have no responsibilities yet.
You can enable “silence unknown calls”, let everything go to voicemail, and then screen your voicemails once a day, once a week, whatever your preference is. Problem solved?
- zamadatix 2y agoMore people in e.g. China alone rely on data based communication apps for these things than there are people who use traditional calls in all of Europe and America combined for a given month. Your personal experience is not the cultural norm for all humanity, nor is it the example of how someone with responsibilities must be like.
- lurking_swe 2y agois a data based app used for emergency service calls as well? Just curious (as someone that’s never been to asia - yet)
- zamadatix 2y ago> I think the sole exception is probably emergency services like 911, which is an important thing many people forget counts as a phone call through the app since it's not a regular task (for most of us thankfully at least). It's not universal. In some places you can reach emergency services via WeChat instead of contacting 110 and what have you but, in general, it's the most likely to be applicable reason to make a traditional phone call in many places you'd otherwise not.