Re:The end of phone calls: why young people have silenced th...
by capitainenemo on Monday August 30, 2021 @04:16PM
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I mentioned this on another HN thread, but I personally have my default ringtone set to a 0.1s mp3 of silence I made once. I then gave everyone in my address book group a real ringtone. Pretty much anyone in there I actually care if they call. All others can leave a message.
As for the parent post's preference for SMS. Most people I know are on XMPP (well. basically google hangouts), Telegram, Signal.. I'm not a fan of the multitude of walled gardens that the chat world has become, but SMS is pretty limiting and still not guaranteed to be free. There's 2 people I still talk with on SMS - the rest are on more featureful chat clients. I also do get a considerable amount of SMS spam, unfortunately.
Oh, also, I use google voice for my SMS 'cause my main plan does charge for SMS - I don't particularly care about this since no one I know really uses it anyway, and the few who do are easy to redirect to google voice.
Re:The end of phone calls: why young people have silenced th...
by effingwewt on Monday August 30, 2021 @08:58PM
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Genius! Doing the silent ringtone now, well done!
It's not because I consider calls useless, though, but because most of the time I'll notice the vibration (most environments are quiet), and I find the vibration less disturbing in most environments than a ringtone. If I don't happen to notice the vibration (could happen e.g. while walking), rather few calls are so important that they couldn't be returned later on.
Bonus points for being less disturbing in case I happen to forget to silence the phone in situations that warrant that. I of course still make it a point to make it completely silent if I go somewhere that really requires that, but in most situations vibrate-only allows for worrying less.