People can leave me voice mail and texts there. I have to spend $180 per year on something that I use maybe 5 minutes per year.Įverything else I do on my VOIP. On the very rare occasions that I MUST use it for those financial institutions, I bring it out for a minute or two to get the pass code. It's in the Faraday bag so that no signals go in or out. I keep my phone in a Faraday bag, leave it buried way down in a desk drawer. Now I only have one because some financial institutions require me to have a mobile phone, otherwise, I would not own any sort of phone. I always used to turn my phone completely off since the early 1990s. I used to work to keep the % of garbage down in my email, but realized at some point that I was receiving so few emails I wanted that weren't just transactional messages from a machine, that it was pointless (I can just search for transactional emails if I need them, because I'm expecting them and know where they should be from, so inbox clutter barely affects that use at all). The only medium where the chance of my actually receiving your message the first try is over 90% is Whatsapp. If you email me without giving me a heads-up first, there is nearly a 0% chance I'll see it. More machines talking to me = I'm less likely to check messages unless I'm expecting something. WhatsApp is the best way (0% automated messages), then text (maybe 75-80% automated?), then phone (something like 95-99% automated), then email (~99.99% automated, and that's just the stuff that gets through gmail's spam filters) The best ways to contact me are basically ordered by how many of the messages I receive are automated, whether spam or not. I'd rather use natural language to relay my requests to a computer operator who's job it is to know their system (or an expert that can field my questions), than to deal with it myself. It's also not much use for me, since I kinda hate fighting with everyone's stupid websites, and usually opt for phone calls and paper mail. That's wont help an old person who isn't very comfortable with computers. All appointments, appointment updates, notices, lab results, prescription refill requests, etc. > My doctor's office, and their whole medical network, uses M圜hart. It gets worse when you realize that the people most likely to have health issues (old age) are the same ones most likely to fall for the scams. Doctors offices often have multiple phone numbers and it’s not realistic to have them all on the allow-list. A major thing that’s overlooked in the phone spam discussion is the fact that when people have to deal with medical issues, especially chronic/ongoing ones, they need to allow calls from unknown callers.
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