For me, the most important features for a communication platform (aside from reliability) are the ability to block users and the ability to mute alerts from users.
It boggles my mind that this isn't universal, like people want to be interrupted.
It boggles my mind that this isn't universal, like people want to be interrupted.
But now I have at least 5 ways to contact me that don't involve making my phone ring and interrupting whatever I'm doing to look at the phone and see if it's someone important enough to stop what I'm doing to talk to them. There are very few people that I actually want to receive calls from and I almost never answer the phone.
I am not turning towards anyone. I want to choose who can contact me and when, because I like being able to sleep and do things without interruption. The fact that phone numbers can be hidden or falsified when initiating contact with me makes phone calls rather broken and is the main reason I haven't investigated an AdBlockPlus style phone filtering app to preemptively block telemarketers.
It is not selfish to want to live peacefully, it is selfish to demand the right to interrupt me.