People who only use the landline

[DorothyL]

Aibu this is ever so slightly tedious? In the evening I'm shattered and want to make arrangements via text/message, but some people just don't respond to any communication other than a phone call.

No mobile signal here either! No broadband, our internet signal comes from someone's barn on the other side of the hill.

My mobile is for my convenience, not that of the rest of the world

Wow!

Also when you make group arrangements it's just easier to do it as a group, otherwise I call you - then have to get back to the group - then have to call you again...

I'm not your secretary!

I love landline and don't like too- ing and fro- ing on text
I also don't keep my phone with me much and don't like the 'text glance' thing.
I dont want my kid to think being attached to a mobile is a useful past time - but I am old about this sort of thing!

i can't get hold of my sister or any of my friends in the next door village on a mobile phone.

I was about to say YABU but have changed my mind! If someone has joined a whatsapp group to sort out a meeting with others, bloody check the whatsapp to see if anything has changed! It's nothing to do with mobile reception, that's no excuse, as it'll come off the wifi.

That's the whole idea of having a whatsapp group in the first place! If you turn up on the wrong day at the wrong place, 'tis your problem for not checking the means put in place (i.e. whatsapp group) to set the thing up in the first place!

Some great responses on here. If I was involved in a group event I would find messenger easier and less of a faff that Whatsapp because I really CBA fiddling around messaging on my phone. I much prefer a full size keyboard that I can type on.

I agree that if sorting out stuff with lots of people ringing around is not an efficient option much prefer a full size keyboard that I can type on.

EBearHug is spot on regarding using methods of communication that best suit the person you are contacting. It isn't rocket science.

We have a phone connected to a landline for one reason only; if there is a power cut and our mobiles are flat in case of emergency though it's usually buried under a pile of coats and school bags

Nobody ever calls me on it so I ignore it on the odd occasion that it rings - it's always spammers trying to get my bank details.

I'm with you OP. Down with landlines! And phone conversations! And people in general tbh but I'm a misanthrope

No one calls me on my landline cause I told everyone i had got rid of it

I rarely call people apart from old relatives, text and email suits me much better

I'm with you on this completely.

After a long arse day working and running around after my three DC the last thing I want to do in the evening is sit and chat to my Nan for an hour (and yes, she does talk for at least an hour going over and over the same points). I appreciate that sounds awful but I'm fucking drained and those precious hours in the evening are my only time to unwind and watch Netflix. But she refuses to learn how to text or use a computer or even have a computer so that's the only option... If she'd get with the times (she's only mid seventies with zero health conditions other than perpetual stubbornness) I could just drop her a text like I do everyone else.

Texting is soooo much simpler... Pick the phone up on your own time, take a minute to tap a few letters out and that's it. I don't even use my landline, she calls my mobile from her landline... I wish I didn't have to pay the £17 pointless line rental.

We have relatives that we talk to regularly who only use landlines. OH works from home and uses his landline a lot for that. Also we get our broadband through our landline.

We also use our mobiles, Skype and Messenger. We aren't dinosaurs, but we recognise that there is more than one way to communicate with people, and aren't too arrogant to decide that it has to be our way or no way.

I can't see us getting rid of our landline for the foreseeable future.

I like my landline.
Phone signal isn't brilliant where I live, there is only one place in the house where I can have a decent conversation by mobile ( all networks are the same, there are 5 of us with a mobile in the family)
If I am making an important call to the school or bank, I will always use my landline.

Why are you asking if you are being unreasonable given you refuse to accept any suggestion that contradicts you?

Personally I hate the way that mobile phones have made us contactable at every single second of the day. It's really unnecessary.

You have specially call the fuckers on their stupid special phone because they're so special they can't bring themselves to not be a pain in the arse to contact.

Why is a landline a stupid special phone? It's the type of phone used by businesses all over the country and, as pointed out, it's often the only point of oral contact for people who can't get mobile signals. I'm happy to use it because it's cheaper when I'm calling a mobile, and also cheaper if I'm calling someone's landline from a mobile.

As for Mousefinkle's Nan - if she's chatting for an hour she's almost certainly lonely. A quick text is hardly going to alleviate that, is it?

You know you can text landlines? My parents have a BT landline. If you text it it rings to say there is a message, but then an automated voice reads out the text you sent. We only discovered this by accident so it's not a 'pay for' service.

But YABU. It's up to anyone if they don't have mobiles. You want to contact them so you need to do in the most convenient way for them.

The other thing i've learned is that you can never be absolutely sure that a text (or e-mail) has arrived - a few do actually go astray or arrive 2 weeks late, whereas speaking is 100% reliable! Does that happen with whats app as well ? - i don't really know what it is - can you set up a separate group everytime you want to arrange a group outing? Is it different from group e mail and reply to all? Which i admit is very useful.

The only people I speak to on a landline are my parents, and that's because they have awful mobile signal at home, so it's often the only way to talk to them.

Everyone else, I'll text or FB message. I am happy to speak on the phone but generally it's easier to text as you can respond as/when you want to. I find calling someone quite a demanding way of communication - I mean, people on this thread get pissed off when people don't answer their phones - why?! I'm under no obligation to answer just because you've chosen to ring me at that precise moment!

I think texting/messaging is far more liberating than a housephone ringing, demanding to be answered

I use the landline to make outgoing calls as the quality is better (not much signal here) but I mainly communicate with friends through messenger, text, email, whatsapp.

Surely it's a lot easier to make arrangements by picking up the phone and talking to people than spending half the night playing text tennis?

I'm shocked at the amount of texting that goes on on here. People having all sorts of discussions by text that really should be face to face or over the phone.

The mobile signal in our house is awful - I blame the insulation, so it is a lot better to use the landline. We have to have it for the broadband, so might as well use it for something else too.

Personally I hate the way that mobile phones have made us contactable at every single second of the day. It's really unnecessary.

yy to this.

Same as people uploading photos to Facebook etc WHILE they are on holiday. Are you bored?
My phone goes in safe on first day of holiday and stays there until the end.

We have to have a land line for our alarm/fire system. We also live in the countryside and have no mobile reception. Without a landline I couldn't speak to anyone during the day.

I think texting/messaging is far more liberating than a housephone ringing, demanding to be answered

well, not for the recipient if you expect the text/message to be answered immediately. If it's Ok to ignore the landline, it's also OK to ignore the electro messages.

and don't start me on the students who email me at 3 a.m./Boxing Day/absolutely whenever to ask how to revise for the test/ do question 5a. Then turn shirty cos I don't get back to them for 8 hours. (true).
Unless you call 999, you aren't due an instant reply.

We had to get a land line when we got the tv/internet package. The phone lasted 2 weeks before I unplugged it. Had at least 6 calls a day from either cold callers or people chasing someone for money and didn't believe me that they didn't bloody live here. I don't even know the phone number.

I like having my mobile but i'm not attached to it. It isn't connected to fb. I don't have instagram/whatsapp etc. But it comes in very handy sometimes. I also have it set to go on silent between 9pm and 9am and much prefer someone texting me rather than ringing.