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Mobile numbers and email addresses

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Soupofthemonth · 28/12/2023 21:14

Do you know the mobile numbers and email addresses of your cousins, syblings-in-law and and your uncles and aunts?

I only know their home/landline numbers and very rarely have to call them anyway.

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UsingChangeofName · 28/12/2023 23:37

Mobile numbers for all, yes (if by 'know' you mean "have them in my phone" as opposed to "memorise")

E-mail addresses - don't have for any cousins, but have never, ever needed to e-mail them. I would message on FB if for any reason I lost their numbers.
I only have for one of my siblings in law as they have a joint e-mail with my sibling - I don't for the others, but, as above, have never needed to e-mail any of them.

I think my Aunt us the only one of any of the people you mention who still has a landline number.

Soupofthemonth · 29/12/2023 14:38

Thank you.

I was beginning to think most people knew or had their in-law's emails and mobile numbers for some reason.

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Soupofthemonth · 30/12/2023 03:11

Bumping up!

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Schneekugel · 30/12/2023 03:57

My aunt's yes, also siblings and parents.
I've given mine to nieces and nephews but don't have theirs.
Don't have for in-laws or cousins and they don't have mine.

Mobile only not email. Nobody has landline.

Ladyj84 · 30/12/2023 04:13

Only know my parents email. And can only ever remember my own and mum's mobiles lol

Soupofthemonth · 30/12/2023 05:20

Lafyj84,

Do you have sibling's who have partners and have you got their emsils and mobile number s stored anwhere?

I dont know my in-laws emails or mobile numbers.

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Heyhoherewegoagain · 30/12/2023 05:25

I don’t have numbers for any inlaws, but do for all my own relatives-cousins, aunts and uncles as we have an ongoing group chat which most of us are part of

useitorlose · 30/12/2023 05:49

No, none of them. I have no living grandparents, two remaining aunts. I know the home address of one of them. I know my parents' address, email address and landline but not their mobile numbers - in any case they turn their phones off every night and it took them some time to keep them turned on when at home! I know my sister's landline and address but not her mobile and I have her email address but would have to look it up. This is why I still have an address book!

lljkk · 30/12/2023 06:17

Nobody's landlines nowadays. No one seems to have them.
I find people on Facebook, few email addies.

PuttingDownRoots · 30/12/2023 06:21

I know my PILs mobile numbers and landline. Plus Facebook and WhatsApp. Might have email address somewhere.

Tobleronebear · 30/12/2023 07:03

Do you mean know them, or have then recorded on a phone or written down?
I only know my husband's mobile number, my mum's home and mobile number. I might remember my Nana's home number if I really think about it. Otherwise, everyone's number is stored in my phone. Only my mum, nana and in laws have a landline that I know of though

winniebeen · 30/12/2023 09:52

Yes of course, it's usual in my family not to have a a landline.

I definitely have more mobiles than email addresses though- less of a use for
Them.

SomeonesEx · 30/12/2023 10:02

No. The only time I'd want to contact cousins, aunts, uncles or in-laws is when a member of my immediate family dies (had to do it when my dad died a couple of years ago). For that reason, I have three or four of them as "friends" on Facebook so I can contact them via Messenger. (I think it's currently three: I had to remove one because his ultra-right-wing posts were filling up my feed.) Most of my - very large - extended family are virulent racists and generally obnoxious people; I have no desire to communicate with them for anything other than essentials.

UsingChangeofName · 30/12/2023 12:55

I wonder if some of this might be to do with your age / stage in life.

When my parents were still alive, I can't think of any communication that might need to go to a cousin or Aunt I wasn't particularly close to, that wouldn't go via them.
Once you become the older generation, then you are the person who holds all this information.

But also, the way you communicate with people evolves.
I rarely e-mail people who are my friends or my family - and also rarely phone them. All 'chat' tends to happen via WhatsApp these days.

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