What percentage of phone calls (to your personal phone) do you answer?
I'd say I'm hovering around the 60% mark.
I don't answer calls from numbers I don't recognise, unless it identifies someone I'm expecting a call from with the "maybe" thing. I don't use my phone for work (often). I don't call people to catch up, I'd rather IM. My mother or my best friend call and I ignore them more often than I probably should.
But really I just don't like talking on the phone that much.
This is part of why I straight up do not trust most “reliable polls”, because tons of them are still conducted via phone, and in the era of constant spam and caller ID, most people younger than boomers just don’t answer unknown numbers, and also don’t even have, and in fact have never paid for, a landline. Not to mention, I still have a west coast area code, and I live on the east coast, and most of my friends have area codes from wherever they grew up, not where they live now, so targeting by area code is often nonsense.
I've found if you accidentally take a spam call it can be fun to string them along and waste their time for a good 30m if you've got time to kill, the humour is great but it also gets you blacklisted for a while and they stop calling
My phone has been on silent permanently for the last 2 decades, so I miss 90% of calls. Only answer when it's a known contact and I'm actively looking at my phone.
I pick up every call I'm aware of. Scammers, phishers, polls, and everything else. I love messing with people, and good luck with getting accurate poll results, I have a dice rolling app I use to answer the questions.
It's even on a schedule for me now. The 'TV company' scam calls around 5pm to try me out, polling places seem to be weekend exclusives, and rarely I'll get a noonish jingle from some other random organization.
About 40% of the scam calls automatically disconnect after 8 seconds, and the rest I get to play with.
Careful some calls might just be to collect your voice data for cloning.
They'd call, record, and use your voice for malicious purposes like asking your relatives for money
100%. I don't get any marketing or robocalls so it's either family, someone from work, or someone from an appointment or delivery I have. At this point, I much rather speak with someone on the phone than sit around and text back and forth.
All of them, but I'm also unemployed and looking for work. I can't let me not answering my phone to be the reason I get passed over for a job. More often than not it's a spam call but I can't afford to let an opportunity for an interview go. It sucks, before this I would barely answer the phone for known contacts. If it can be said on the phone it can be said in text, in far fewer words too.
I also answer all calls I get and (usually) call back if they missed me. I actively gave my number to one or two research groups for polls. They call maybe twice per year, so it's alright.
As for scammers, maybe 10% of calls are of that sort and so far I enjoy messing with them when they call.
I've run the gamut with these apps and none seem to really work I've even tried a few paid ones. These days, if you're not in my contact list or you don't provide caller ID, I don't answer.
I'm in the opposite camp - never answer calls from area codes same as mine. Scammers now target numbers with same area code as the one they're spoofing. If also the first 3 digits after the area code match too, that's an even higher chance of a scam.
99%. I just don't answer Anonymous calls because nothing good comes from that.
But there was a time where I could not even answer unknown numbers because I was in some kind of spam database and got 5-10 calls a day. It went on for weeks and they changed the number every time. Simply hitting decline didn't stop it. I ended up setting my phone to block all calls not in my contact list (while still looking into my caller list occasionally) and a few weeks later it stopped. Now I became more trustful again.
Basically none at this point. Unless it's recognized as coming from one of the handful of people in my address book, or occasionally if I'm expecting a call (like from a doctor or the mechanic or something). But otherwise there's no point. No one that would contact me or that I would want to contact me would use the phone - they would text, IM, email, etc. The odds of a phone call being junk or a scam is far too high to bother with.
My phone is on silent 99% of the time, unless I’m expecting a call for something important. I miss most calls except for when I’m already looking at my phone, and honestly I rarely answer even if I see it. It works though. Most of it is spam. People close to me know I prefer texting.
I don't have mine on me except when traveling and I easily don't get to it before voicemail. Wish we had configuration on how many rings before voice mail or forwarding or such. So I miss a lot but a fair amount I will call right back. I will answer some I don't recognize but im in a passive job search. Preference wise its talk in person, then phone, then email, and I do my chat via email.