To wonder why everyone insists on using your mobile rather than a landline?

[Dancergirl]

Do we not use landlines any more??

Despite giving both landline and mobile numbers to various people, why is the mobile always the first port of call??

This is why I prefer my landline:

-I can actually hear it ring as we have 3 handsets around the house. My mobile is usually tucked away in my bag.

-When I'm out and about, I'm busy and therefore can't talk at length or make appointments/check my diary etc. I need to be at home to do this.

-I am not a slave to my mobile phone. I think it's rude to start chatting on the phone when I'm talking to someone/in a shop.

So please just use my frigging landline, if I'm not in leave a message and I will ring back at my convenience.

And I would also go so far as to say manners have gone downhill since the introduction of mobiles. The constant interruption, you can't have more than a 5 minute conversation with some people before their phone starts ringing.

And we were discussing the other day the disappearance of the humble phonebox...

If you use your mobile in the house you can go anywhere in the house with it. Unless you have a cordless landline.

I see it as more polite to ring a mobile as you can see who's calling. Also I have no idea if you're at home, I rarely get a minute to myself and I often don't have the time to keep recalling people if they're not in the first time. If I call on your mobile you can see a missed call, so you at
least know if I called when you're not able to answer.

Landlines are more of an interruption to home life as you're more obliged to answer then IMO. I never give my landline number out unless I have to.

I am the same.
I work part time so am at home a lot so prefer calls to be on my landline as I can never find my mobile or it is in a dkfferent room. However I am selective about who has my mobile number so it does help.

AND ANOTHER THING!
Why do people insist on emailing me? Whatever happened to a nice letter? It's so rude to expect me to look at my emails just because I have a pc and an email address which I give out! It's like they're somehow suggesting its important to them that I get their message sooner rather than later, or, worse, that I might want to get their message!

And what is it with cars? When I invite someone to my house, surely it's only polite of them to walk, so that I have plenty of time to get ready? Perhaps I'm just old, but what is this sudden pressing need to get to places?

FFS.

I am the same.
I work part time so am at home a lot so prefer calls to be on my landline as I can never find my mobile or it is in a dkfferent room. However I am selective about who has my mobile number so it does help.

I am the same.
I work part time so am at home a lot so prefer calls to be on my landline as I can never find my mobile or it is in a dkfferent room. However I am selective about who has my mobile number so it does help.

Oops.

We have 3 cordless landline handsets, 2 downstairs and one up, they have caller display and they speak out the name/number too, so very easy to screen calls.

My mobile lives on the hall table as I don't normally have pockets I don't carry it around the house. I don't hear it ring if I'm not fairly nearby.

Genuine question about mobiles for those who use them all the time (since I rarely use mine). How often do you charge them, and how long does it take ? Does that have any impact on using them as your main method of communication ?

I don't use mine 'all the time', just don't get cross if people have the audacity to ring me on it!

I prefer mobile to landline.

The landline rarely rings - if it is during the day it is generally a telesales call.

If it does ring we all look at each other and ask who it could be??

Much prefer my mobile. In fact, much prefer texting, emailing and meeting up in person. I find telephone calls intrusive - expecting you to give up your time, there and then.

god, I sound like a right weirdo now.

"AND ANOTHER THING!
Why do people insist on emailing me? Whatever happened to a nice letter? It's so rude to expect me to look at my emails just because I have a pc and an email address which I give out! It's like they're somehow suggesting its important to them that I get their message sooner rather than later, or, worse, that I might want to get their message!"

Right, so you're so important, i should spend money on buying paper, envelopes and stamps, and adding going to the post box to the list of tasks I must juggle with 2 DCs. Because you like nice letters.

I like nice letters too, but I would never expect people tp chose them over email if it doesn't suit them.

I suggest you don't give out your mobile number. I use a landline phone all of the time. I only use my cell/mobile phone for texting. We don't use mobiles for doctors or business or anything. Only a few family members and close friends have our cell ph numbers, and either way, we ignore the house phone when we are busy. (They will leave a voice mail if important, and we will see the flashing light for that and listen), and turn ringer off at bedtime.
Works for us!

Therocket, I charge mine every night (when I remember!)

Another thing I like about my mobile is I've had the same number for 10 years but moved several times in the last decade. Old friends can still contact me.

This drives me up the wall. I don't get mobile reception at work. I write this on all the forms requiring my contact details for the DC. I inform every school/club both verbally and in writing that of they need to contact me during the day they must phone my work number (which automatically rings through to my secretary if I'm away from my desk for any reason). Without fail they call my mobile, and then get upset because I don't answer it

throckenholt I charge mine overnight, no problems.

We got rid of our LL because it's cheaper and we didn't use it enough to justify the cost. We have smart phones which we run our internet through to laptop from, so no need for a LL. As we don't play internet games/download heaps etc it still works out cheaper than LL&broadband deals.

For our older relatives and small businesses we rent an 0800 number (NZ free call) that redirects to our mobiles for $20/mth that is free for them to call. Our plan has heaps of minutes, texts etc so that isn't a problem. All up we save between $50-70/mth having got rid of the LL.

Oh and if I'm busy I don't answer - I would assume most people do the same? Just because it rings doesn't mean you have to pick up - just the same as a LL.

I'm the opposite. I only have a land line and don't own a mobile. We don't get any cold callers but then I don't fill out any surveys giving the number or give out our ll number to anyone, the only people who have it is the doc surgery.

IMO mobile phones are too intrusive, people think you should be available all the time if you have one and if they call or text they think you should answer it no matter what, I couldn't be bothered with that. I also think people with mobiles are generally quit rude as they sit and txt and take calls from other people whilst they are having a conversation with you.

We never answer the landline, the only time it gets used is if other half needs to talk to bank types - the sort of call that needs strings of numbers putting in. He avoids phones of any type as far as possible anyway. I always give my mobile number. If it's not convenient to answer it I let it go to voicemail (and if I'm being really efficient already have it on silent or vibrate anyway so it's not disruptive)

The only landline number I ever think of calling is my mum's, other people I assume they'll see it's me and answer or not as convenient if I call their mobile. Though in fairness I am far more likely to send a text.

Oh yes - I'm in my late 40s. I took to mobiles like a duck to wet stuff when I first got one.

I use my landline. I pay as I go on mobile so mostly use it for texting or if out and about. I make all long calls from landline. I never call mobiles from it. If people only have mobiles, I speak to them less and call from any free minutes from mobile but never go over and pay 5 a month. Can't afford mobile packages and have found them a pain to get out of in the past. Much prefer no ties!

treaclesoda Same problem here. I don't give my mobile out as a rule as I never have any signal (and I quite like it that way) but businesses tend to insist you give them one and seem to default to using that number no matter how many times to tell them not to. I now have a message on it saying "I rarely have a mobile signal so please don't leave a message, if your call is urgent please call my landline"

I loathe taking calls on the mobile. Even if I'm in an area of good reception, it's often prone to cutting out, and that's on an iPhone 5s with O2. I loathe talking on the phone full stop but that's another thread

The people complaining about getting constant calls on their mobile do know that they don't have to answer it, right? I don't have a landline, haven't had one for years, and don't answer my phone unless I recognize the number. And not always then.

I'm 90% more likely to send a text than call, and most people who know me know that's the best way to get hold of me.
Of course, 'people' is often my teenage daughter or her friends, and I don't think anybody that age knows that it's even possible to use their mobiles to make calls.