I have made calls for different reasons including political calls, and still make non-political calls for work from a number people won't recognize or is blocked, and many young people answer their phone.
Not everyone is afraid of talking on the phone for two minutes.
I have my phone set to send any phone number that I haven't called or put into contacts directly to voicemail. It's not about being afraid to talk on the phone, but rather the proportion of useful interactions to annoying ones. 98% of the time, a call from an unknown number is going to be a scam or spam (or both!). Picking up the phone every time it rings is just a huge annoying waste of time, and anyone who is genuinely trying to get ahold of me will leave a message so I can call back.
This is such a reddit moment on Hexbear.
I have made calls for different reasons including political calls, and still make non-political calls for work from a number people won't recognize or is blocked, and many young people answer their phone.
Not everyone is afraid of talking on the phone for two minutes.
I have my phone set to send any phone number that I haven't called or put into contacts directly to voicemail. It's not about being afraid to talk on the phone, but rather the proportion of useful interactions to annoying ones. 98% of the time, a call from an unknown number is going to be a scam or spam (or both!). Picking up the phone every time it rings is just a huge annoying waste of time, and anyone who is genuinely trying to get ahold of me will leave a message so I can call back.
But it's an insane selective bias right off the bat.
Not my fault that people want actual humans to answer and not 1% of the calls being a confused boomer looking to chat for a while