Do you always answer your phone?

Hi, I always answer the phone. Sometimes, no ID is displayed I still answer the call because it may be an important call. On some rare occasions, I returned recognised nos. They may be important business calls.

That's why I like my caller ID so I do not have to answer some of the phone calls. That way I can pick and choose who to talk too. If I do not recognize or it does not show up it depends upon how I feel whether I will answer or not.

It depends on who it is...if it is someone that I know I will normally answer the phone but if I don't recognize the number on my caller ID then I won't answer it. Our number has been in my husbands family since he was a little boy..first his grandmother had it then when she passed his mother took it and then when his mother moved out of state and obviously couldn't take the number we decided to take it so we do get a lot of calls still for my husbands mom and his brother who used this number as a message phone when it was my mother in laws...we have told these people that this is no longer their number but they continue to call so we don;t answer the phone any longer when they call....

I try to always answer the phone. I have talking caller ID but sometimes it just says Pennsylvania and it was my aunt or a friend. Sometimes I can't make out what it is saying and it takes me soo long to get to an extension to see what it says, I just answer it or call the person back if they leave a message. I hate when I try and get to the phone and then just when I do the person hangs up and doesn't leave a message. I am disabled and I can't always get to the phone before the machine picks up and all of my friends know that but there are still a few that won't leave a message.

Hi, actually i did have too much phone, and i wont tell other my persinol phone except my friends, for the business they can choose the Mail and the office phone, if someone call me, i should check whether it is my friends or others i never meet, but i really dont want to get some business phone at my spare time.

hi Dorannwin =)hmm i usually never answer the phone from people i never knew or his name doesn't appear on the screen unless i really was having affairs with new people who have not saved as my contact on my mobile phone such as bank, insurance etc.But i also hurt because lottery winners are usually announced or a new one from the internet often comes suddenly.Recently i decided to accept the phone calls who i have known or not.Don't care about my privacy anymore!don't believe me?just give me a call LOL :D

I always screen my calls. I don't want to talk to telemarketers. I can be pretty sure any call coming from a 416 (Toronto) area code is someone trying to sell me windows. Yes, always windows. I am on the "do not call" registry but that only applies to telemarketers. I still get charities calling me. I try to screen those but am usually unsuccessful. Now I am getting these calls on my cell phone. I got one today which I think was a recording (I hung up before I could find out) about some resort. I don't give me cell phone number out to just anyone so this really bugs me. If my husband isn't home and there is a call for him from someone I don't want to talk to (ie I know they will keep me chatting on the phone forever), I won't answer it. If they want to leave a message on the answering machine they can. Most of the calls my kids get they get on their cell phones now, but I will answer calls for them. Sometimes my daughter hasn't taken her cell phone with her and she could be calling me from that neighbour's house, for example. I wouldn't give up my caller ID for anything!

I'm the same as you. I don't answer a call from a number that isn't local or that I don't recognize. I stopped when some company that uses call centers in various states kept trying to offer me a warranty on my 12 year old car.

I am also .. opt .. some numbers which are known by me.... some people who only wate time .. i avoid the call from them,.. for nay new numbers i pickup... because i dont know.. that who is caller... so I pick up and know about that caller... So it is depending on numbers from which calls are incoming.....

Our caller ID only works if the TV is on, so I am unable to screen all calls. It seems a waste of time and energy to answer all the solicitations that we get. They are especially annoying at this time of year. They will not take "no" for an answer.

welp i always answer my cellphone even if i dont recognize the number but my house phone i rarely answer cause its always tell-a-marketers or toll-free i guess calling which gets really annoying so we just let the house phone ring and trust me its always ringing lol && also everyone thats anyone knows that if they need to get in contact with me it'll be through my cell phone never my house phone...b/c when it rings i dont even bother to look at the caller Id b/c i already know who it is by assumption so if you really needed me then calling my house phone wouldnt be a good idea.

Since having a Blackberry, my cell phone keeps ringing all the time because it notify use if there is an e-mail, new chat in blackberry messenger, yahoo messenger or msn. I simply use vibrate mode to shut them all. In case of phone in the office, until now I always pick them up since usually it is office related and must be answered. If I am in a situation where I don't want to pick up the call, then I would just ignore the call. The caller usually will e-mail or text me if that happens

my husband hates to anwser the phone, so i am usualy the one who answers most of the calls, even if he is right beside it, he will not answer it , it drives me nuts.. i will answer it if it is a number i know, but if it is a strange number, i usualy dont answer the first time, i will try and see if i can figure out who it is by going thru my numbers.. but if they call back a second time.. i will answer it lots of times i wish i had'nt .. if it is a sales call for me i will ask them if i can take a message for her.. i hate talking to sales people espically since they wont take no for an answer.. so that is how i deal with that..

i ll mute it when i go to sleep and just chek the missed calls when i wake up.good thing about cell phones is that u can always know who is calling,n if u dont feel like talking to that person just ignore or reject the call diverting it to meesage box/

Hi dorannmwin, I don't have many calls daily. Therefore there isn't any problem for me to answer them. For sake of safety as well as to save trouble I answer phone according to the caller ID appearing on the screen. I won't answer to someone which I'm not familiar with. My loved ones as well as my friends usually will sms me the new phone number in case they have changed new phone number. Therefore it's impossible for me to miss any urgent call from them Happy posting

I don't have a caller ID on my landline so I have to pick up the call. And, sometimes it's a junk call from the subscriber.

The only phone i have isa cell phone. I also live ina basement apt. The combination is not a good one. Usually my phone dont ring it will go straight to voice message. When that happens i dont have a number to call them back. Unless they leave a message w/number. On the rare mements that it does ring...it only rings 2-3 times before going to voice message. I do not jump and run to answer. Because even if im near it goes to message before i can get it. Because of reception problems i usually use texting.

Nah, I don't always answer my phone. You know why because sometimes the customer care of certain companies call for the promotion of their products and most of them are very annoying. I always use to take sleep in the day time as I am working night shifts these days. So, I want to have good sleep hence I hardly take calls from 10 in the morning till 5 in the evening.!

I did not answer all called from someone else unless I am familiar with the number. But sometimes it happen I answer stranger call but if I didn't recognized the person who called me I immediately off the phone...It's good yo you because you have your own business but need not to entertain all calls because there are people called without any purpose...

Heck no. I have a good reason though. We moved into my mother in laws house and we are renting it now. But all of my husbands siblings have all lived here and used this number. So we get bill collection calls for like 5 different people, and a few for us too. Not to mention the telemarketers from singing up for free stuff and trials and stuff online. I don't answer it unless I know the number. We have an answering machine for all the rest.