Then there's millennials like me, who will 100% not call you back if you don't leave a message or send a follow up text. Also, if I don't recognize the number I'm not answering unless I'm expecting a call back about something.
1000% this
That is the exact opposite of my experience. One of my Doctor's hired a new College aged girl in her office. I was in there when the other office staffer had her calling people to change appointments. She questioned why the girl wasn't leaving messages and the response was "they will see they had a missed call and call back". The entire concept of leaving a voice message was something she had no experience with. As the other office staffer told her most of our patients as elderly, they have landlines, they don't have caller ID, they have answering machines and expect a detailed message. All she got was a "deer in the headlights" look from this young lady.
I know you want to think that is the hallmark of millennials but I'm afraid that I am a very old boomer that does exactly the same thing.
That was more just dumb than a way of life. With the way we get robo calls, especially with Medicare, political and car warrantee calls we would spend all day on the phone. I don't answer unless I know who is calling and will never call back if they don't leave a message. But to think that people will automatically call back if they don't know who is calling is not playing with a full deck.
I personally agree with you. However, the reality is, some otherwise normal people don't.
This. Call came in on my cell phone. Local number with no ID.
I just screen calls and if it's about appointments they will always leave a message. So you really don't have to answer.
I have no idea what that is?
Do not disturb. It mute your phone pretty much. No notifications no sound from calls.
Then you play phone tag. Rather just answer. And clear it up in 30 seconds myself.
If it's an appointment confirmation (which is most of the calls I get from my doctors/dentist) there's no need to call back.
All my doctors text now for that and you just reply yes to confirm.
I wish! Only my eye doctor uses modern technology.
99% of the calls I get are spoofing calls which are spam calls. They are usually automated calls with the expressed purpose of trying to figure out if it's a real phone number they are calling so if you pick it up and answer it you're just giving them what you want. I use Hiya which auto detects most spam calls so it tells me "spam likely" and auto hangs up most of the time. Spoofing tends to work because they use your area code which increases the likelihood of you answering. Now maybe in Canada things are different who knows but spoofing, phone phishing and spams are so prevalent here a lot of cell phone users screen the calls.
We must be getting different scammers then because I sure do get messages from them it's all just automated messages never an actual person.
Yeah, the automated ones just start playing when my voicemail picks up, so I get recordings about 20 seconds into their spiel. I just got one that was 6 seconds long and all I heard was "call me".
Everyone's situation is different, but as time goes by more and more people will easily be able to screen calls. Those that have opted out of being identified are usually those that have a reason that they don't want you to know and in many instances like with my i-Phone it tells me if it thinks it is a scam call. Anyone that I might expect a call from I put in my contact list and when they call it tells me who is calling. All others I let go to voice mail and they usually don't leave a message anyone that I want to hear from will leave a message. Even though at times it seems like we are backing up to the 1800's, most of us are embracing new technology, some at an insane level, and are staying as current as is reasonable.
