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McDad said:
Millennials have a great system. My daughter doesn't answer her phone if the caller is not in her contact list. Her voice msg instructs caller to send a text. People who need to get in touch do via text. Solicitors mostly do not but the ones who do she simply deletes and blocks at her convenience. Brilliant
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I have a variant. I just don't answer if it's not in my contact list or I don't recognize the number and have been to lazy to put it in the list. I get the idea about the text though - not sure I'd encourage that. Every now and then I do check voicemails - like weeks in between. With age you get better at ignoring and telling people "No"; could be that you learn with age that there is no golden goose or Nigerian prince, so there's little to tempt you into answering an uninvited call from an unknown.
 
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AM64 said:
I have a variant. I just don't answer if it's not in my contact list or I don't recognize the number and have been to lazy to put it in the list. I get the idea about the text though - not sure I'd encourage that. Every now and then I do check voicemails - like weeks in between. With age you get better at ignoring and telling people "No"; could be that you learn with age that there is no golden goose or Nigerian prince, so there's little to tempt you into answering an uninvited call from an unknown.
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Oh, there's a Nigerian prince all right. He just sent me a $50K check for helping him out.

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AM64 said:
I have a variant. I just don't answer if it's not in my contact list or I don't recognize the number and have been to lazy to put it in the list. I get the idea about the text though - not sure I'd encourage that. Every now and then I do check voicemails - like weeks in between. With age you get better at ignoring and telling people "No"; could be that you learn with age that there is no golden goose or Nigerian prince, so there's little to tempt you into answering an uninvited call from an unknown.
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What's your concern with text?
 
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McDad said:
Millennials have a great system. My daughter doesn't answer her phone if the caller is not in her contact list. Her voice msg instructs caller to send a text. People who need to get in touch do via text. Solicitors mostly do not but the ones who do she simply deletes and blocks at her convenience. Brilliant
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That would be nice but I have clients that call my cell and I don't have everyones number/name in my contacts. I've missed 3 calls (I know of) that I needed to take today because I'm not answering anything unless it's in my contacts.
 
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hog88 said:
That would be nice but I have clients that call my cell and I don't have everyones number/name in my contacts. I've missed 3 calls (I know of) that I needed to take today because I'm not answering anything unless it's in my contacts.
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An easy fix with an auto text response instructing them to contact you a different way or leave a message. Boom. Maybe I am your personal assistant
 
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Got home in a foul mood and sent an email to the county - not that I think it will help. Ever since the county decided to install a sewer line out our way, developers have been buying up what was worthless property and planting homes on lots that should be considered unfit. The houses back directly up to a hill which means runoff has no place to go - this is CA house surfing down hill nonsense. That's on the people who buy or rent them - I don't care if they aren't discriminating enough to know better.

What pulls my chain is the contractors keep closing the road and making cuts in the road, and it's one at a time. You never know until it's time to head out to an appointment or go to the grocery. Today I had enough and stopped to ask WTH they planned to be done - yesterday it was down to one lane, but you could get down the road. The contractor threatened to call 911 - I'm usually a lot more polite, but I was hardly threatening. I told him go go right ahead. I didn't think to ask to see a closure permit - should have.
 
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AM64 said:
With all the security issues, I'm not fond of opening even texts from unknown sources. Perhaps it's not a problem, but I'm losing faith daily when it comes to being compromised electronically.
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I think that may be a rad overly cautious but it's understandable.

She has had no problems in 10+ years of phonership.
 
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