A recent survey found a quarter of people aged 18 to 34 never answer the phone.
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I don’t think anyone answers the phone now, unless they recognize the number.

Most of the calls I get are

  • spam
  • spam
  • someone sent me a time sensitive message, so they ring me once to respond faster
  • spam
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Yeah, I’m early gen-x and I only answer the phone if its a member of my immediate family and even then it’s 50/50. Capitalism ruins everything. Need to talk to me? Leave a message and I’ll decide if and when to call you back.

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Everyone I want to talk to knows not to call me; I feel exactly the same. Phones used to be useful, but the sheer volume of telemarketers and scams have reduced it to uselessness. If it wasn’t for 2FA occasionally requiring a phone number, I wouldn’t even have one at this point.

chiisana
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You don’t always have a choice as it is dictated by the service provider, but whenever possible, disable SMS based MFA and enable TOTP or something else. SMS based MFA is susceptible to SS7 MitM attack.

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2FA

Use an authenticator or Yubi key. SMS authentication is the worst possible method.

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Same. In the last few years (2?) I don’t think I have given it out anywhere. I just pretend to not have a phone number, and if people think that’s weird I don’t care, deal with it. Nowadays if a service requires my phone number, I don’t need that service. Or in rare cases I’ll try to find a free online number for receiving a code, but that’s the only alternative I take.

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Settings>Do not disturb>exceptions>Caller in contacts

alt: Set default ringtone to silent, no vibration, Set people in contacts to custom ringtones.

Also on iOS: Settings > Phone > Silence Unknown Callers

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in ios there is a phone app setting to silence unknown callers.

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American? I’m from The Netherlands and I get maybe 1 spam call every other month or so. And I’ve been using the same number for almost 25 years.

Otter
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Canada, we face the same issues as the US for telecom stuff

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Must be nice to a functional telecommunications agency that has the tools to punish soammers.

Oh we do too. Verizon and att make money off of selling the scammers our phone numbers and they wont spend the money to stop it

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Lucky me I rarely get spam calls

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