I have funny phone habits. Some people would say that I’m a phone person, others would say that they can barely get me to talk on the phone. I neither leave nor listen to messages. I have Caller ID for a reason – I see that you called, I call you back. (or not) I have a better habit of answering text messages. It’s that simple. I don’t want to either a) make a phone call only to hear someone say “Hi. It’s me. Call me back,” or b) listen to a rambling 3-5 minute message about something that probably makes no sense to me when I’m listening to it.
I used to have privacy manager, but in an attempt to cheapen my phone bill, I got rid of it. I was mortified when I examined my bill, only to find that I had made exactly 22 calls from my home number in one month. In my opinion, if I’m only making 22 calls, I should be paying as little for that service as humanly possible. For 22 calls, I could install a freakin’ payphone in my house, and come out cheaper than the bill that I was paying, even at 50 cents per call.
Why am I talking about this? It’s a bit of a digression, because I decided to check my messages at home this morning – largely because I have an answering machine and I’m sick of that thing picking up on the second ring, as opposed to the fourth when there are no new messages.
I had no less than 20 new calls, and ½ of them were from politicians campaigning for the primary. There were people that I’d never heard of, never cared about, and certainly won’t be voting for whose campaign offices decided to play their blaring, crackly pre-recorded messages on my machine . . . only for me to have to go through and systematically erase each one.
I don’t remember this barrage of pointless messages from the last election, and that’s largely because I had Privacy Manager. The campaign zealots got a big ‘talk to the hand’ for calling from unknown numbers.
I’m bringing privacy back!!
