So I'm an introverted millennial who started working for himself a couple months back. It is SO HARD to answer calls from unknown numbers with no warning. I'm just chilling and BOOM stranger on the phone.

I'm adjusting, but I live in terror of the day the spam calls start back up and I can no longer just ignore them.

Yup I'm old now. I like phone calls.

I'm in my early thirties and I used to feel this way. But in the last couple of years I've noticed I prefer calls more because it's so much easier to get things across to each other faster. As someone who travels a lot for work I also find it helps with feeling isolated/lonely as well.

Yah, be sure to text me when you need something ASAP instead of calling, because that'll get you what you want fersure. Then get angry about it.

I don't understand why people do this.

Gen-X here. We are going to call and leave voicemails until you talk to us. Just pickup and get it over with or the nightmare will never end. If we do text first, you better acknowledge fairly quickly or the calls will start.

We grew up in the era of landlines and no voicemail (occasional answering machine). Stalker level amounts of calls is just nostalgia for us. We are nightmare fuel.

There's... there's no send to voicemail button!!!

I'm getting old. I get anxiety from phone calls if people don't text me days in advance that they're calling. But if they do, I'm fine!

(I used to have this one cheapo phone that worked fine on WiFi but would randomly stop working on cellular and there was no way to tell until I tried to use mobile data or whatever. So if I was expecting a call, I was constantly rebooting the damn thing.)

(Edit: Oh yeah, I have to pay extra for voice mail to the phone company. Yet, the only people who regularly call me for legitimate reasons are, like, the employment office people, and they don't do voice mail. Dammit, another scam!)