1y ago

funny because true

57 comments

I’m the same way with my mail.
I’m a millennial - I don’t check my mailbox for 6+ weeks at a time.
If I order something, then I know about it and expect it at my door (because it’s fedex, amazon, or ups).
Otherwise, it will have to wait until I happen to remember I have a mailbox.
For example, with bills - I expect you to have my email address and use it, because I supplied it whenever I established xyz account.
Exceptions:
Around the holidays when people send out holiday cards!
For a local property tax exemption, my county refuses to email it. Their requirement for receiving the exemption is that you live here locally, and part of their way for verifying that, is by sending the request form to your local physical address.
- I don’t check my mailbox for 6+ weeks at a time.
  That seems dangerously negligent.
  
  Welfare checks have been conducted over less.
  
  I've had a P.O. box for years because I don't want to disclose my home address when I register domains. Maybe I should check it one of these days...
  
  Ok boomer
  
  Arthur Dent kinda stuff is going to happen to him. Yellow...
- I'm like this with email. I do a quick visual scan about once per week... or fortnight... because it's almost all SPAM, and no matter how many blocks and filters I create, it does little to hold back the tide of trash.
  Everyone who matters knows the only way to reach me reliably is via text message.
- I nearly missed a jury duty notice because of this habit. I only check if I know money or a specific bill is coming.
- If you live in the US, you can get your mail sent to your email inbox every day you are getting something that is directly addressed to you (i.e., not spam). It's called USPS Informed Delivery.
  It doesn't always work if they get your address slightly off (say they put STE instead of APT), but it's a lot better than nothing.

Sms aren't limited by my availability....you can send them at 4am in the morning so i can ignore them for 2 weeks for no reason. Meanwhile if you call me at 4am I'd still be awake but it's none of your business why and i wouldn't answer them anyway so why bother.

Annoyance issue.
-late Boomer
- You've got a point. A whole lot of boomers are annoyance issues leading us millennials to not answer our phones

Because sms respects my time. I can check it when I can I do not need to stop everything I am doing for it. A call doesn't, I have to stop everything to pick it up.

Why should I feel obligated to be available for a phone call?

The professional thing to say here is "spam prevention".

Why would they even ask that lmao. "Eat my entire ass" that's why, fuck you.

As an older millennial I use the phone just fine, thank you very much.
It's Facebook and other random proprietary crap being used for IRL communications (especially important stuff like community associations, etc.) that I can't deal with.
- I refuse to use Facebook and any time I hear someone talking about using it I just think of how much better off everyone would be without it. I haven't used it in probably 5 years but I could only imagine it has got worse.
  
  It's the only Marketplace in the use where I live. Sucks so bad but I have to have it for work
- I make an exception for WhatsApp because I (and literally everyone in our country) uses this instead of SMS. I never use SMS.

“No.”

I wouldn't mind people calling me if I didn't expect 90% of my calls to be scams.

Genx and haven't liked to pick up the phone my whole life
- Same. I used the phone before there were other options, but I always hated it. I don't like being able to hear someone but not see them. It gives me anxiety.
- How did you make plans with friends before cell phones? You never talked with a boyfriend or girlfriend for hours on a landline?
  
  That doesn't mean they liked talking on the phone.
  
  Most likely I'd make plans face to face. I have spent too many hours on the phone with loved ones, but that's usually planned or expected. I don't like picking up the phone if I don't know who it is, and even then I'd often rather avoid. Just send me a message please instead.

Im just autistic and can't hold an unrehearsed phone conversation, let alone irl conversation, to save my life.

I once signed up for something that required separate home and cell phone numbers. Some shipping service or something. And it wouldn't let me put the same number for both. Like come on, nobody is paying for landlines nowadays. I ended up putting my parents' phone number for the home phone (which they coincidentally just got rid of this week.)
- (AreaCode) 867-5309 is your friend in this and for random "Insert your phone number for the rewards program" things.
  
  fun fact: most phone companies do not allow that phone number to be given out due to too many people calling it as a direct result of that song.
- I have two landline numbers that came with my internet contract but I don’t have a phone connected to the modem. So whenever your scenario happens to me I just give them one of my real landline numbers. I’ve tried calling myself and you can actually hear it ringing as the caller but no one will ever pick up lol

"I can, I just don't want to be"

"My rate for voice services is $0.35 per minute. Ask about by bulk rate for 15, 30, or 60 minute increments when prepaid. Any calls without prepayment will be billed at the per minute rate, net30 terms. Please have a PO# ready when calling."

That looks like one of the UK Government sites.
- 100%, hours of frustration trying to sort out studen loans means that font + colour + box is incredibly recognisable
  
  I'm actually a big fan of how they've standardised the design language and accessibility requirements across services. This "why" box that a couple of comments are criticising are likely so they can continue to improve accessibility.

Antisocial is why

"because I don't want it."

what kind of bs is that? 500 characters wouldn't be enough to fit my uneducated reply to that stupid question.

Shit I ignore texts for days too. 😒

Am I the only millennial that doesn't mind phone calls? Don't get me wrong, I very much prefer an SMS or email if it will suffice but phone calls tend to be quicker if you need something taken care of immediately.
- Phone calls are for immediate concerns that's why you need to answer your phone. No one will call you unless it's important
- No, it's just become en vogue to parade around your social incompetence/anxiety issues/whatever for clout.
  That being said, I don't give out my number willy nilly, although getting annoying robo/spamcalls seems to be more of a US issue anyway.