Telemarketing did ruin it. This was the main reason people bought answering machines, to screen calls. Missing calls wasn’t a big deal for most people, it was the telemarketing that drove people to buy answering machines, and then to get caller ID, and the ability to block calls, etc. Telemarketing was a boon for the phone service providers.
If you’re anxious about answering your phone it all started with telemarketing.
It’s amazing how communication mediums seem to become so saturated by marketing that it essentially destroys them.
Phone calls, mail, fax, email.
At the very least, I’m extremely disappointed in the government for destroying phone calls (or standing back and just letting them get destroyed). The nature of a phone network lends itself well to placing responsibility on the caller. Absolutely enforceable. No will to do so.
Like, you actually need a permit to do door to door sales. That’s GOOD. Copy-paste that legislation for phones.
I’d be 100x happier with my tax dollars hunting down and punishing phone abusers than funding a speed trap.
I am so fucking mad email is ruined by telemarketing. It would be so fucking convenient if not for spam. Kinda hate that it’s how you sign up to anything now too like some weird id.
Don’t forget the entire internet, newspapers, telephone listings, radio, television, movies, video games, every surface of a store, public spaces like parks and sidewalks, and probably your dreams in the near future
Advertising is cancer and it destroys anything that tolerates it for even a moment. An industry with zero ethics or morals. If you work in advertising you’re a disgusting scumbag piece of shit and your parents are ashamed. No amount of money is worth it and the world would be objectively better without you in it.
Telemarketing did ruin it. This was the main reason people bought answering machines, to screen calls. Missing calls wasn’t a big deal for most people, it was the telemarketing that drove people to buy answering machines, and then to get caller ID, and the ability to block calls, etc. Telemarketing was a boon for the phone service providers.
If you’re anxious about answering your phone it all started with telemarketing.
It’s amazing how communication mediums seem to become so saturated by marketing that it essentially destroys them.
Phone calls, mail, fax, email.
At the very least, I’m extremely disappointed in the government for destroying phone calls (or standing back and just letting them get destroyed). The nature of a phone network lends itself well to placing responsibility on the caller. Absolutely enforceable. No will to do so.
Like, you actually need a permit to do door to door sales. That’s GOOD. Copy-paste that legislation for phones.
I’d be 100x happier with my tax dollars hunting down and punishing phone abusers than funding a speed trap.
I am so fucking mad email is ruined by telemarketing. It would be so fucking convenient if not for spam. Kinda hate that it’s how you sign up to anything now too like some weird id.
Don’t forget the entire internet, newspapers, telephone listings, radio, television, movies, video games, every surface of a store, public spaces like parks and sidewalks, and probably your dreams in the near future
Advertising is cancer and it destroys anything that tolerates it for even a moment. An industry with zero ethics or morals. If you work in advertising you’re a disgusting scumbag piece of shit and your parents are ashamed. No amount of money is worth it and the world would be objectively better without you in it.
Advertising should be illegal outside very specific instances, imo.
When a person needs a thing, they should seek it out.
That we’re constantly bombarded by marketing is not spoken of enough as the tragedy that it truly is.