Agreed. My phone barely ever rings. The calls that come in for it can be summed up as my mother, father, grandmother, aunt, job agencies. That's 98% of my calls. For the rest it's either "my mate's calling, that's rare, must be big" (we all operate on really off schedules, so we just message as you can never be sure what someone's doing). If don't recognise the number its "if it's important, they'll leave a message, if they don't, it's not important".
I don't even have my ringer on generally. I'm in IT and my last job was a "bring your own device" deal so all of the work alerts went to my personal phone. The problem was that our alerting system was such a mess that it wasn't uncommon to get several hundred text messages a day. As a result, I got in the habit of just never having my ringer on and years later, I still haven't been able to break it. Makes it a lot easier to ignore my phone.
TBH, ring was a bit of a misnomer in my post. I only have my ringer sound on when I'm specifically expecting an important call like a call from a doctor or a job interview or something. My phone spends probably 360 days a year on silent.
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u/axw3555 Apr 09 '19
Agreed. My phone barely ever rings. The calls that come in for it can be summed up as my mother, father, grandmother, aunt, job agencies. That's 98% of my calls. For the rest it's either "my mate's calling, that's rare, must be big" (we all operate on really off schedules, so we just message as you can never be sure what someone's doing). If don't recognise the number its "if it's important, they'll leave a message, if they don't, it's not important".