I am completely flabbergasted at the amount of people who still think it is cool to call out of the blue. People who assume that you are available at that exact time. People who assume you want to take a chance in the hope that THAT particular call is not an annoying salesman or bank person. People who assume that you can smell it is them at the other end of that private number or number you don’t have saved in your phone. I have been ranting about this for many years and I swear to God if SMS and emails came before phones, we would be handling them EXACTLY like Skype. Which is to say we would arrange times to talk – like meetings. This calling out of the blue business is a bad habit from the past – before the days of SMS and email and it is B U L L S H I T!

And I’m not alone. In fact, I am part of the MAJORITY! So you can keep telling yourself that your buddies and colleagues don’t mind, but I’m afraid they do. Because when you’re not there and they’re filling out a survey on their own, they admit to not digging it. 

Or recent 2oceansvibe Survey received over 1,000 completed forms and 73% of the respondents said they would prefer an SMS before a call, rather than random calls out of the blue.

Not that you should take it personally – it’s just that you have NO clue what the person you are calling is doing at that time. Think about it! Granted, a lot of people DO answer those calls – but has it ever occurred to you that they are doing it under duress?

A whopping 60% would prefer not to communicate on the phone WHATSOEVER, citing SMS and email as their preferred comms format.

53% do not answer private numbers.

98% of people would NOT answer an “unknown number” in a meeting.

86% WOULD answer the phone in a meeting if they knew it was ADT calling.

Makes you wonder how ADT are legally ALLOWED to alert you from a private number, when your home alarm goes off.

Nice to know that if your wife was about to get raped at home – and pressed the panic button – that only 2% of us wouldn’t answer the call if we were in a meeting.

Great vibe, ADT.