Will you answer a stranger's call or message?

If I hear my phone ring and I don't recognise the number, I will always answer because it might be a friend on someone else's phone. I answer to see who it is and what they want and then if I am not interested if it's just someone cold calling then I usually just hang up.

yes,i will answer a stranger's call.why not.maybe you can get valuable imformation.it cost you nothing to answer a call.but i won't write back messages to strangers.

Yes I will answer the call and hope that the person will introduce himself and state his purpose for calling. It maybe be important. Either he was asked to relay a message of someone I know who for some reasons couldn't make a call or it is an important business matter. We never know so it's wise to answer calls from strangers. cheers!

If its a call of course I can't do anything about it but to answer, it may be important, and it not I will politely decline saying I'm not interested on anything like starting a conversation, may it be a girl or a boy. If it's a strangers text message I will not respond to it unless he introduces himself. It's a waste of time and money if you respond to these none sense people doing nothing but disturb other people, unless its very very important and necessary.

That really depends on my mood.^_^ Sometimes, I can really handle strange calls well. Other times (and most often) I'm too lazy to use the phone. There was one persistent caller who had been calling for years even though I'm deliberately avoiding him, and who had already told me almost his whole life story. I don't really talk a lot, maybe that's why he loves calling me because I only listen and occasionally share my opinion. I'm bored and I always make it obvious but he probably loves talking. He's so into his storytelling that I can't hang up on him. I always hope then I am not alone at home when phone rings so that I can avoid answering it. I don't think I'm bad, I really listened to him back then. I still know his stories even though he stopped calling 2 years ago. I still think he's a stranger despite of the very detailed self description. As for an unregistered number calling my mobile phone, I always answer that because that's the only way to know whether the caller is a total stranger or someone I knew who isn't in my contacts.

Hey! Typically if a number I don't recognize shows up on my phone I won't answer, I feel that if it is important they will leave a message and then at that time I can figure out if it was a wrong number or a friend who just got a new phone number. One time I had missed a call and the lady left a message on my phone. She was an older lady who had dialed the wrong number. In her message she was trying to get a hold of her daughter to tell her that her father had passed away. I felt so bad for the lady! So I called her back to let her know she called the wrong number so that she could get a hold of daughter right away and tell her about the loss. But I usually don't call the person back if they called the wrong number because I feel like they will eventually figure it out, and I would rather spare them the embarrassment of getting a call back from me.

Well, sometimes the stranger calls us or texts us with some purpose, maybe promotion something or offering something. I will never avoid that as long as the 'stranger' calls under certain company. But, if the stranger completely bothers me I will never pick the call up or reply their sms. I will be very curios if the stranger knows my identity, my number and everything. But if he doesn't know then I will explain to him that he is calling/texting to wrong number. =)

I usually nvr answer a strangers number if it shows a name i dont recognize on my coller ID. If its just a number,i'll answer it. If its a stranger, i'll just let my answering machine do its job, and if it was important, i'm sure he / she would have left a message.

If there is a call, I would attend and if I am not interested, then I would not continue talking. I usually never start a conversation with a stranger but in the case of a bus or train journey, I usually start a conversation with a stranger until I reach the destination. Yes, if it is a voice of a sweet girl over phone, then I would definitely not cut the call immaterial she is a stranger or not and that is the usual habit of Human. Thanks for starting the discussion and have a great day. Happy Mylotting. Cheers:-)

Unfortunatly, I don´t receive love letters (only bills) and those phone calls that want to sell something I don´t want to buy. The romance is out of my life, except for a cpuple of nice friends that call me. Those voices I recognise, of course. I feel that calling an unknown person is very agresive. I like my space and don´t want to have it invaded. So I would just hung up.

hello mike, It doesn't matter if it's a celebrity, it's still a stranger to me, and if the person there looking for is not on my place then i would just say "wrong number" and then hang up on the phone. what if a girl with a sweet voice is a fake or part of a planned crime on your place.

actually no,i never answer a call or reply a message from strangers.but what is really annoying is that i receive many messages everyday from strangers although i protect my cell phone number carefully.

i don't answer text messages from people not on my phone list, unless they identify who they are and i am able to confirm that the message really identifies them. for calls, i answer each one of them even if they are not from those listed on my phone. i treat each call as an emergency call because if it were not, he could have just texted which is cheaper.

I would not do it ,as you said ,if it's a girl with a sweet voice , maybe I would. lol. good luck.

i actually think i am one of the few people who would answer any call and if the person is interested then i can keep on talking. I like to know about different people and what better to do that than to talk to them. I also answer all the telephonic surveys if i have got the time. knowledge is best gained by reading and best learned by telling or listening.

I usually don't answer the phone if I don't recognize the number. I agree with you, it's awkward talking to someone you don't know or weren't expecting a call from. I also like to avoid talking to telemarketers ;)

well, I will pick up the phone even if someone I don't know call me, it is my principle no to miss a call, because sometimes my customers would call me, and if I miss a call, I may miss a business. But when I find that the person who called is not my customer, nor my acquaintance, then I would not have futher discussion with him/her, but say good bye to him/her. I will not reply to messages, tha sent by someone that Idon't know, since I think they are scam i believe there are some guys who are extremley borning and dail numbers at random, and talk to someone they don't know. I think those guys are disgusting.

I am not getting many such calls from the strangers. But very rarely I will get some calls from the telemarketing companies..They will call us and will continue to speak without considering our situation and some of them will not even care about our sayings. It seems they are making the calls to the random numbers. I used to ask them loan without considering their product or service.What ever may be their product, I will ask money from them for interest , if they are not credit card sellers. Only if we ask like this, they are ending their calls.Else they are continuously speaking...speaking..

I often got some strange call from the place which are far away from me.i do not konw how to deal with that.

I would never answer a stranger's call or message! It could be some sort of pervert of psycho possibly trying to harm you. Text messages are the worst because you dont here a voice or any emotion whatsoever. Stuff like that is never a good scenario to get involved in.