Phone is on silent, all calls automatically screened for spam, when it rings and isn’t in my contacts, it goes to voicemail, no voicemail, no callback. All groupchats are muted, all notifications are silent, no message content on lock screen, no notif for emails, no social media apps except Lemmy. Emergency alerts are disabled too, if I’m gonna be sucked to death by a tornado, I don’t wanna be looking at my phone when it happens.
So true. My phone number has an area code from a place I never actually lived in (carry-over from a family plan, most of whom do live in said area code) and I got bombarded with calls the other day. I just assumed it was US election spam and blocked every number. Could one of them be my cousin calling from the trunk of a kidnapper’s car? Possibly. But, eh, not sure what I could really do from thousands of miles away.
Same! My area code is 2k miles from here before I moved & kept no affiliations with anyone over there, so when my phone constantly blows up with spoofed numbers from that area code, they’re so easy to ignore, report, block.
2026: We simply don’t answer our phones anymore. Every incoming phone call is a scam.
A package arrived with a phone inside. Once he put the phone in his hand, it rang. Most people would answer that call, I think.
The idea of that happening and someone immediately pressing decline with no hesitation is hilarious.
Unknown number: probably spam. Came via postal service: definitely spam.
In that circumstance I would check the voicemail immediately. Sorry, best I can do, Morpheus.
Phone is on silent, all calls automatically screened for spam, when it rings and isn’t in my contacts, it goes to voicemail, no voicemail, no callback. All groupchats are muted, all notifications are silent, no message content on lock screen, no notif for emails, no social media apps except Lemmy. Emergency alerts are disabled too, if I’m gonna be sucked to death by a tornado, I don’t wanna be looking at my phone when it happens.
A part of me has been hoping for Presidential Alerts that look like demented tweets, so that everyone switches to FOSS phones.
So true. My phone number has an area code from a place I never actually lived in (carry-over from a family plan, most of whom do live in said area code) and I got bombarded with calls the other day. I just assumed it was US election spam and blocked every number. Could one of them be my cousin calling from the trunk of a kidnapper’s car? Possibly. But, eh, not sure what I could really do from thousands of miles away.
If my cousin can’t be bothered to text to arrange a time to talk, I guess they’re not getting rescued.
No worries. Your cousin would leave a voicemail.
Same! My area code is 2k miles from here before I moved & kept no affiliations with anyone over there, so when my phone constantly blows up with spoofed numbers from that area code, they’re so easy to ignore, report, block.