Because sms respects my time. I can check it when I can I do not need to stop everything I am doing for it. A call doesn’t, I have to stop everything to pick it up.
I’m the same way with my mail.
I’m a millennial - I don’t check my mailbox for 6+ weeks at a time.
If I order something, then I know about it and expect it at my door (because it’s fedex, amazon, or ups).
Otherwise, it will have to wait until I happen to remember I have a mailbox.
For example, with bills - I expect you to have my email address and use it, because I supplied it whenever I established xyz account.
Exceptions:
- Around the holidays when people send out holiday cards!
- For a local property tax exemption, my county refuses to email it. Their requirement for receiving the exemption is that you live here locally, and part of their way for verifying that, is by sending the request form to your local physical address.
I don’t check my mailbox for 6+ weeks at a time.
That seems dangerously negligent.
Welfare checks have been conducted over less.
When it’s too cold out to wanna walk all the way up there, I’ve gone for 3-4 months at a stretch. All I ever get is garbage anyway, so it’s only ever mattered twice, and one of those was an expected package.
No one’s ever called me a welfare check :(
I’m in the military lol. The government definitely knows I’m alive by 0600 sharp every morning.
Ok boomer
I’ve had a P.O. box for years because I don’t want to disclose my home address when I register domains. Maybe I should check it one of these days…
If you live in rhe US, you can get your mail sent to your email inbox every day you are getting something that is directly addressed to you (ie not spam). It’s call USPS Informed Delivery.
It doesn’t always work if they get your address slightly off (say they put STE instead of APT) but it’s a lot better than nothing.
Just signed up for this, thank you. It’s fantastic!
Now I can check my mail from the comfort of my bed. USPS email comes daily at 0400.
I’m like this with email. I do a quick visual scan about once per week… or fortnight… because it’s almost all SPAM, and no matter how many blocks and filters I create, it does little to hold back the tide of trash.
Everyone who matters knows the only way to reach me reliably is via text message.
Annoyance issue.
--late BoomerYou’ve got a point. A whole lot of boomers are annoyance issues leading us millennials to not answer our phones
Sms aren’t limited by my availability…you can send them at 4am in the morning so i can ignore them for 2 weeks for no reason. Meanwhile if you call me at 4am I’d still be awake but it’s none of your business why and i wouldn’t answer them anyway so why bother.
“No.”
The professional thing to say here is “spam prevention”.
As an older millennial I use the phone just fine, thank you very much.
It’s Facebook and other random proprietary crap being used for IRL communications (especially important stuff like community associations, etc.) that I can’t deal with.
I refuse to use Facebook and any time I hear someone talking about using it I just think of how much better off everyone would be without it. I haven’t used it in probably 5 years but I could only imagine it has got worse.
Why should I feel obligated to be available for a phone call?
Im just autistic and can’t hold an unrehearsed phone conversation, let alone irl conversation, to save my life.
I once signed up for something that required separate home and cell phone numbers. Some shipping service or something. And it wouldn’t let me put the same number for both. Like come on, nobody is paying for landlines nowadays. I ended up putting my parents’ phone number for the home phone (which they coincidentally just got rid of this week.)
I have two landline numbers that came with my internet contract but I don’t have a phone connected to the modem. So whenever your scenario happens to me I just give them one of my real landline numbers. I’ve tried calling myself and you can actually hear it ringing as the caller but no one will ever pick up lol
Why would they even ask that lmao. “Eat my entire ass” that’s why, fuck you.
Genx and haven’t liked to pick up the phone my whole life
How did you make plans with friends before cell phones? You never talked with a boyfriend or girlfriend for hours on a landline?
Most likely I’d make plans face to face. I have spent too many hours on the phone with loved ones, but that’s usually planned or expected. I don’t like picking up the phone if I don’t know who it is, and even then I’d often rather avoid. Just send me a message please instead.
no email?
“I can, I just don’t want to be”
“My rate for voice services is $0.35 per minute. Ask about by bulk rate for 15, 30, or 60 minute increments when prepaid. Any calls without prepayment will be billed at the per minute rate, net30 terms. Please have a PO# ready when calling.”
