My phone is just one big shitpost

In 20 years cell phones (as phones not portable computers) went from a tool that united people in new and exciting ways to a way for solicitors to spam us. It’s to the point that I don’t know anyone who answers their phone if they don’t have the caller’s number saved.
This is a choice that we have made. We could legislate this behavior and we as a society choose to act as if it is inevitable.
- iirc, we did legislate it. Surprise: Trump un-legislated it, and even before that Congress de-funded it.
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- don't forget they're a way to track everything about each individual.

I'll call you and we can talk for a couple minutes, just so you can have a real call.
- Username really checks out here

I have added my phone number to the do not call list and I have gotten 1 Spam call in 4 ish years
- I did the same and get 3 spam calls a day.

Funny related story: someone in my city signed up for a mortgage but used my phone number on accident. I got 40 spam calls the first day, and still get calls about it years later. I even got a message from one of his friends one time looking to catch up. His name is Brian and he works at a local restaurant as the GM, I learned all this just from info fed to me by third parties.
- I have a Steve that did the same thing. A lot of people contacted me over the years about him wanting to see if they could buy his property. I finally said yes, and that was the last I heard from any of them.
  
  STEVE

My condo offers free home phone as part of the amenities. No thanks, having a home phone just so you can be constantly harassed by telemarketers is not something that's appealing to anyone who isn't over 60.
- I do contemplate the merits of having a home phone with the ringer perpetually on silent, and that being the only number I give out to places like Spirit Halloween whereas family/friends get the cell.

I cant be the only one who hasnt gotten a single spam call in the last ~6 years
- add emails and chats to the list but shorten the period to, lets say, 4 years :)

Interesting. These days I receive many more text spams (on messages, telegram, whatsup etc.) than call spams. I think my provider and my phone block call spams successfully.
- I never see most of these calls. They just show up on recent activity
- I receive both! lol

How did you get your spam calls down to only a few a day?
- I got my name and details blacklisted by scam baiting, back before that was even a thing. I was used to just playing along with spam calls on the landline for my parents. Once cell phones and mass spam calls hit I had a lot of fun for a while, but at some point I was full blown blacklisted. In the last ~10 years I've only gotten the occasional car warranty call from someone who bought wrong data(cars I don't own).
- I've had the same number for over twenty years. My guess would be all that time yielding no results from those calls. Otherwise I guess I'm just lucky. I almost never have my ringer or vibrate on so I never even see them as they come in.

Do what I did and just cancel the subscription. It's worthless! What's a phone for if you can literally connect with anyone using any other means.