3 tips for people who do not like to answer the phone

Mobile phones are very much changed our lives, and not always for the better. The presence of a cell phone means that you are now almost always have to be in touch! Even if your job calls you at 9 pm on Sunday. As a result, even for sociable people phone has become a source of stress. What can we say about those who are not very fond of telephone conversations and society in general? As politely restrict yourself from phone calls and stress at the same time?

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Matt Haughey (Matt Haughey) - creator MetaFilter, Fuelly and other interesting sites and services, people are not very social, offers 3 effective and coarse Council to restrict phone calls.

1. Do not set your messages to your voicemail. Oddly enough, but if you've recorded a special message in the style of "Hi, I can not answer right now. Please leave a message and I will get back to you ", then chances are that you will leave a message and even will load operation, much higher than if the sound standard. People somehow almost immediately hangs up when they hear a standard message, and dictate, unless something really urgent. It turns out that nothing to complain about! Yes, you did not take the phone, but after including voice mail, and you can leave a message. If the caller did not, then it was not so important. Of course, if your work is connected with constant phone calls, you can not do that.

2. Do not buy a new battery for your home phone. As strange as it may sound, but it works. This advice I can already write from personal experience. Battery in our home radiotelephone after 5 years of use started to sit down, and now it is enough for a maximum of 20 minutes of talk time. That is, in a normal conversation it enough for 10 minutes, and the remaining 10 minutes you will hear in the tube "pee-pee" (the signal, which means that the phone sits) every minute. Frankly, my mother is angry and can not understand what prevents us to go and buy in the store a new battery. But this I always have an excuse since there was "no time" and ending on "I forgot!". Mom, of course, still angry, but I think that there are two scenarios: either she herself will go and buy the battery for us, or just wave his hand at all. The latter is more likely. And anyway, if you want to talk to someone for a long time - to meet, have a good time and talk to your heart's content. Along with his friends to see. On the phone you can talk with one another on a daily basis for an hour, but did not meet during the month (two, three... half a year ?!). Weak battery in the phone - a good occasion to meet and to finally see each other.

3. If you do not know the number - just do not take the phone. If something is important, you will be sure to return the call from the same number. And if it was a single ring, the more likely it is either not important or you called to offer another vacuum cleaner / new insurance / open a new account. In the US, there is a wonderful service WhoCalled. UsOn which people spread different numbers of network marketers or spammers, companies that interfere with normal life with their calls. Entering unknown phone number, you can find it in the database, and read the comments to it. We have such a service I have not yet found. But the idea is not only interesting, but also useful. So what if some of our readers there are those who have already got phone calls with marketing proposals may already be time for us to think about the creation of the same service?

And once again I want to add that all this can be done only in case, if your work is not directly related to phone calls! If your work is connected with your phone, then in that case you just need to set a time frame and politely give understand their employees (the employer), that at 11 pm you may well have to sleep and the phone at the time just unplug. The same goes for "family days". Just ask send you a message if the case is very urgent.