Voicemail should be banned
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The True Crime here is an 11 year old child with a (I suppose) Smartphone.
Whatever you say Grandpa
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Then the person sends you a 2 minute long audio over whatsapp
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The True Crime here is an 11 year old child with a (I suppose) Smartphone.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]I would totally understand if it was in a place where your kids can take a walk or public transport to school or other places on their own. I would also want them to have means to call you.
EDIT: my bad, I ignored the 'smart' bit there. I just meant any phone.
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Can be a normal phone which is what I would do if I where a parent and my kid would have to bike 12 km to school every day.
Sounds perfectly reasonable to me. I'd just like to mention that it was perfectly normal for kids to go on 12km without a phone not so long ago, and I don't think there's anything wrong with it now. Parents worry too much. I mean, it's a biological impulse that makes a lot of sense, but it's often over done.
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Sounds perfectly reasonable to me. I'd just like to mention that it was perfectly normal for kids to go on 12km without a phone not so long ago, and I don't think there's anything wrong with it now. Parents worry too much. I mean, it's a biological impulse that makes a lot of sense, but it's often over done.
Well yeah, but it is always good to carry a phone with you especially when you bike through somewhere where there isn't a lot of other traffic or it is off your unusual route. There is nothing wrong with carrying a Nokia 3310 or something
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Well yeah, but it is always good to carry a phone with you especially when you bike through somewhere where there isn't a lot of other traffic or it is off your unusual route. There is nothing wrong with carrying a Nokia 3310 or something
Ye, I think it's fine either way, nokia or no phone at all. I cycled 17km to school from age 12 to 17 and only got my first phone when I was 18 and moved out. Of course I did get a flat tire a couple of times, but then I'd just walk or sat at the back of the bicycke of a friend.
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Whatever you say Grandpa
Ok, brainrot
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That's actually really smart lol
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Mine is "You have reached my phone but not me, I don't really check voicemail, if you need to reach me, text." I still get voicemail.
Some voicemail the phone will transcribe, those I read but really don't listen to them.
Some people just can't fathom communicating other than a voice call lol
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Ye, I think it's fine either way, nokia or no phone at all. I cycled 17km to school from age 12 to 17 and only got my first phone when I was 18 and moved out. Of course I did get a flat tire a couple of times, but then I'd just walk or sat at the back of the bicycke of a friend.
And what if you fell while you where alone and broke a leg making it impossible for you to walk? Or you friend fell and hit his head open on the road being able to call for help is actually pretty handy.
Like it might sound absurd, but shit happens
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And what if you fell while you where alone and broke a leg making it impossible for you to walk? Or you friend fell and hit his head open on the road being able to call for help is actually pretty handy.
Like it might sound absurd, but shit happens
wrote on last edited by [email protected]I suppose living in the Netherlands, a pretty crowded place, assures you that you're rarely ever alone in the middle of nowhere for very long. But yes that is handy and I can totally understand parents feeling comfortable with their kids being able to call for help if anything ever happens to them.
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Ok, brainrot
I think I was maybe 12 when I got my first smartphone, admittedly they weren't really a thing much earlier than that and while I definitely have issues I'm pretty sure none of them were caused by the phone
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Sounds perfectly reasonable to me. I'd just like to mention that it was perfectly normal for kids to go on 12km without a phone not so long ago, and I don't think there's anything wrong with it now. Parents worry too much. I mean, it's a biological impulse that makes a lot of sense, but it's often over done.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]I think a lot more kids got napped in the States before cellphones were common
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The absolute worst thing about voicemail is that you can't just listen to the one you just got. I have about 50 unheard voicemails at this point. You leave one? I have to work my way through 50 just to hear yours. And it doesn't even let me work from most recent. Nope. Just never going to happen.
Life must really suck when you're too dumb to know how things work.
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Then the person sends you a 2 minute long audio over whatsapp
At least I can get a transcript and speed it up a bit
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huh? Android lets you pick from a menu.
What? How do you set that up?
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It's a double edged sword:
1.) Not all phone lines have text enabled (especially service lines).
2.) One reason you might not answer a call is because you don't recognize it. So if the line in question doesn't have text options then you might miss important calls if you don't check your voicemail.
3.) If you don't take unknown calls and you don't check voicemails then you probably won't answer random text messages either.
At the end of the day more people need to be grown ups and at least have a decent voicemail message and check their voicemails as they come in. It's not an all or nothing discussion, it's a do the minimum discussion. Screen your calls, check your voicemails, call people back who seem legit. It's not rocket science, it's adulthood.
Yup. Sucks to have to remember to take phone off "Do Not Disturb" to get business call backs.
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Where I'm from, voicemail is just not used. If a person doesn't pick up, you try again later. Answering machines were not a thing either. Always thought it was weird people used them in movies. I remember maybe leaving one message in my life, never had it myself.
Yeah, where I am from it's primarily used by businesses these days. Most people don't answer phone calls from numbers they don't know so if it's important business then they leave you a voicemail. The thing is that if you don't then check your voicemails you miss important business. It has a lot of other odd impacts as well, I was in a car accident not to long ago and the guy that hit me broke his phone and tried to use mine to call his emergency contacts. As you might have guessed no one answered because they didn't recognize the number and he wasn't able to call anyone for help.
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I get voicemail from blocked numbers
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Life must really suck when you're too dumb to know how things work.
As your dad proved when he couldn't figure out the condom
