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Have you ever had food (or package and furniture even) delivery where they need to call, or gotten a call from a pharmacy, or had to call a plumber, or lost a pet? There’s tons of reasons why people need to call a random person.
It makes sense to have the option to lock down a phone to just contacts, like for kids and the elderly, but not for everyone.
I'd love to know what people who set their phone to auto ignore anyone not on their contacts are missing. Just last week I had two random calls from new to me numbers that were actually calls I wanted to take.
Spam calls are annoying but only take a second to figure out what they are and I can choose whether I want to engage and waste their time or save my own by just hanging up. Though I don't get many lately, not sure if it's Canada improving its phone system or my own phone's filtering (I've seen people mention pixels do well filtering but I'm on graphene so no idea if that applies to me).
Also on Graphene. I'm unemployed and dealing with a semi recent health diagnosis, so I definitely get calls from numbers that I haven't saved. I just let them go to voicemail, and if they're not spam, I save the number and call them back.
For me it's calls from medical professionals regarding my wife. There's no way to know ahead of time the entire list of numbers all of these organizations - each facility, each provider, each insurer, each pharmacy.
Definitely! And if you’re someone’s emergency contact, forget about it.
If you're hot, then giving randos your phone number is a recipe for stalkers.
Everyone should have multiple phone numbers, each with expiration dates that vary according to how long you expect to interact with them: 1 day for food delivery, 1 month for dating, 1 year for classmates, coworkers, or family. 10 years for close friends.