# Do you really \*like\* people calling you all the time?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-really-like-people-calling-you-all-the-time/337844>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [December 31, 2005, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-really-like-people-calling-you-all-the-time/337844 "2005-12-31T13:19:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![Anastasaeon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Anastasaeon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anastasaeon)\
**Post date:** [January 1, 2006, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-really-like-people-calling-you-all-the-time/337844/41 "2006-01-01T06:42:37Z")

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I don’t own a cell, and happily so. I used to, and I didn’t care for it at all.

When the landline rings here, my husband and I just look at each other for a moment, saying to each other with our eyes, “if it’s important, they’ll leave a message,” and we get on with what we were doing without a single spoken word.

The only people my husband calls is me or his best friend, the only people I call is my husband, mother or grandmother. We take incoming calls from his father if we see who it is on caller ID. Everything else is worthless to us - if it is important, like the bank or my lawyer or something, they always leave a message and we get back to them.

I was more of a chatter as a teenager, but as I got older, I became much less of a phone person. I’d rather see my friends face to face, when possible. I live a quiet, peaceful life. Adding more ringing, buzzing, beeping things that interrupt me is just adding annoyance to my world. Like adding leeches to a pool.

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**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\
**Post date:** [January 1, 2006, 8:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-really-like-people-calling-you-all-the-time/337844/42 "2006-01-01T08:34:05Z")

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I keep mine with me pretty much all the time, but only get about a call a day, and that’s usually an email from my wife. It’s actually more important to me as a substitute wristwatch.

Mainly, I use it for contacting the office of my part-time job (I go directly from my house to the job sites, rather than stopping at the office), and for tracking down friends when we’re trying to meet somewhere outdoors.

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**Author:** ![manx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/65b543/32.png) [@manx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manx)\
**Post date:** [January 1, 2006, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-really-like-people-calling-you-all-the-time/337844/43 "2006-01-01T11:38:34Z")

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> [@An Arky](#):
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> Text messaging is for illiterate teens who can’t form a complete thought by themselves.

It costs me twenty cents to send a message to a friend. On weekends, it’s free. Calling is between $0.50 and $1.50, depending on the time of day. If I need an immediate response, I’ll call someone, otherwise I’ll text. I hate talking on my phone in public (I forget about an ‘inside voice’) so I’ll text my friends. It’s a different way to communicate, definatly less personal that calling, but also less intrusive.

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