Does anyone use a phone book anymore?

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caroln

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The last time I used a phone book, I was looking for a phone number for some business in town and it wasn't even listed in the phone book. So out of curiosity I looked for other businesses and found a lot of them no longer were in the book. It's so easy now to just look up a business on Google to get phone numbers and addresses that I haven't used a phone book in several years.

I remember a time when my phone book was used regularly, got wrinkled and dog-eared. Over the years, I noticed the phone book has gotten smaller and smaller. I've kept the last phone book I got...dated January 2018! For some reason I keep it around.
 

caroln said:
It's so easy now to just look up a business on Google to get phone numbers and addresses that I haven't used a phone book in several years.
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Me too, and I like the way we can check online reviews and BBB scores for them while we're looking. I remember in the old days choosing between businesses based on the size of their yellow pages ad, thinking that a bigger ad meant a better more successful business.
 

Imagine the day when you somehow do something that lowers your social credit score to the point where Google refuses you service. Do you think it cannot happen?
 
dilettante said:
Imagine the day when you somehow do something that lowers your social credit score to the point where Google refuses you service. Do you think it cannot happen?
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It hasn't worked well at all even in China, so probably not gonna happen.

The horror that IS happening is that YouTube has blocked my ad-blocker and expects me to watch really boring advertisements for 5 seconds until the skip option shows up and I find I cannot bear even 5 seconds of stupid ads. There ought to be a law that all ads need to be funny and entertaining.
 
My phone book is from my birth year ... 1953
This phone book was at my grandparents house
All the writings on and throughout the book are my grandmother's notes
I placed the book in a period correct phone booth binder I stumbled on over the years just to protect it

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No, and another thing we can't get any more is a printed street/road atlas. We always had them for the whole county, and I liked using them a lot more than all the electronic location finders we are stuck with now. Though I do like those more when I am driving.
 
I wish I could stop phone book deliveries to my house, seems like such a waste. I haven't used one in probably fifteen years yet still get them dropped off two or three times each year. They should set them up as a free subscription and deliver to only those that want one.
 
In our area, many do not have good cell service so I still use our phone book once in a while. But otherwise it is fairly useless. We have even found inaccurate business info and phone numbers in the phone book.
 
No. Got one a few weeks ago and tossed it in the recycling. It didn’t take much space there. It was still more space than I was willing to dedicate to my drawer.
 
dilettante said:
Imagine the day when you somehow do something that lowers your social credit score to the point where Google refuses you service. Do you think it cannot happen?
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Even if that were to happen there are other search engines.

Here where I live there are none, not even telephone poles & most housing areas have underground electric lines.
 
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