| How long do you wait to delete that number.
Posted: 7/4/2009 8:58:54 AM | | Even if you delete their numbers, their information shows up. If you don't recognize a number if their isn't information, don't answer. Geez, you just call them back. I just don't get saving a bunch of numbers of men you only date once. | |
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| How long do you wait to delete that number.
Posted: 7/4/2009 9:05:49 AM | I used to delete men I was not interested in immediately. If we went out or whatever and it ended I would delete them as soon as we were "done". Since my cell is my work phone I get a lot of calls from random numbers. I always answer since it could be work related. It didn't take long to realize my habit of deleting didn't work. I would answer and then be like Damn! it is so and so and now I am stuck on the phone with him.
Now I change their names in my phone. That way I know who they are and don't answer. I have gotten quite creative with their names... Jobless Loser, Guy Withwife, No Personality, Never Again, Prettybut Sucksinthesack, Doesnot Looklikepicture, Nicebut Clingy, Stalker Alert etc. etc. | |
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| How long do you wait to delete that number.
Posted: 7/4/2009 9:18:57 AM | | Delete them right away. Dont waste your time. As one of the other posters said, if they call you then you have the number again. If you save the number I guess you could get revenge and could post their number. But legally I guess this is a wrong move. Well this my humble advice. | |
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| How long do you wait to delete that number.
Posted: 7/4/2009 9:43:18 AM | Like another poster stated, I'll go through my address book when I'm bored and delete phone numbers. Those numbers I delete are usually people I don't remember!  I'm lucky I remember how to get into my address book let alone remember to delete numbers. | |
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| How long do you wait to delete that number.
Posted: 7/4/2009 8:04:08 PM | | I would delete numbers of people that I felt I shouldn't be contacting anymore but might possibly want to at a later date, hoping that of course by now they would want to hear from me. Ha ha ha. Ah, it's not such a big deal now. I stay in touch with just a handful of people and delete the other numbers so I don't have to scroll down so much. | |
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| How long do you wait to delete that number.
Posted: 7/4/2009 8:24:00 PM | I dont store numbers. the cell automatically stores the last 120 or so numbers you called and the last 50 numbers that called you.
Question within this question though.
Have you ever been in this situation.
You met somebody a while back traded phone calls but it never materialized for whatever reason you become reaquainted with them and she {or he} both agree that you should call and when you ask for their phone number they get all angry that you didnt keep their phone number.
This happened to be last week and i explained to the woman that we spoke over a year ago and lost contact and i didnt feel the need to keep your phone number once we lost contact {which was on her part}. She really got all upset that i didnt hold on to a number that I wasnt going to call out of the blue. | |
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| How long do you wait to delete that number.
Posted: 7/4/2009 8:55:23 PM | | I delete the number within the week if I don't hear from someone. If I am talking with someone and don't like them I delete it right away. Then I have ran into guys that have had my phone number for 6 years the longest and we never spoke till 6 years later when I ran into him. Seems like lately I keep running into guys that have kept it at least 3 years. I don't understand why. lol | |
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Joined: 6/12/2009
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| How long do you wait to delete that number.
Posted: 7/4/2009 9:34:05 PM | Send them a message? If no reply... Then you have your answer.
And for about how long I would wait depends on how much I have spoken to the person and what I think of the person. | |
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| How long do you wait to delete that number.
Posted: 8/18/2009 10:59:28 PM | If I have a number that has not called me in a month I usally delete it if I don't just after they call. Don't need a throphy list. It is amazing how nosey people can be so I don't want someone picking up my phone and knowing my personal business.
I am very careful about giving out my phone number because I don't need some person who turns out to be a cry in their beer type calling all hours. Just not the gab on the phone type. | |
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| How long do you wait to delete that number.
Posted: 8/19/2009 5:05:48 AM | I keep mine for a while, so I know who the person is that's calling because I do have crappy phone number memory. It does come in handy to see the name on the caller ID when they decide to all the sudden call again.
Love the idea with the ZZZ's so they go to the bottom of your phone book... going to steal that idea. | |
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| How long do you wait to delete that number.
Posted: 8/19/2009 5:29:46 AM | | Good question OP! I delete numbers within 48 hours of an unreturned call or text. I figure that if a guy can't return a call/text within 2 days he's not interested so why keep his number?....also because I do a lot of 'but dialing' and I don't want to accidently call someone who blew me off.... | |
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| How long do you wait to delete that number.
Posted: 8/19/2009 5:42:55 AM |
I've seen too many women rolling their eyes at their cellphone, when a certain guy won't stop calling, or won't stop texting her. I've resolved not to be that guy. If she's throwing a hissy-fit over nothing, and not accepting my calls, I delete her number right then. If she gets over her childishness and calls me back, then I have it again. If she doesn't, I can't and won't call again.
Very good strategy. Helps with the compulsiveness.  | |
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| How long do you wait to delete that number.
Posted: 8/20/2009 3:46:33 AM | LMAO I do that too. But usually if a date went bad or I don't hear anything within three days they are gone. A guy friend once told me that men are "supposed" to wait three days to call you after a date. So I keep that in mind. If nothing after 3 days then later! I don't have time to play games. If you aren't interested, then why will you be in another month or so? | |
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| How long do you wait to delete that number.
Posted: 8/20/2009 4:15:20 AM | If the person does a disappearo and I've tried calling and they don't call back...within a few days after that last attempt. Unless you're in a hospital or something, a simple call back to say I'm busy works. I've had guys call me from a year ago and I usually ask them why are they calling NOW...and it's because they've realized that they made a mistake wriging me off because I didn't do whatever it was they thought I should (usually those who want you to put out early on).
I don't have a set timeframe--but if we're seeing each other, for example, and 2 WEEKS go by without a return call or something...you're toast. | |
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| How long do you wait to delete that number.
Posted: 8/20/2009 5:58:01 AM | "How long do you wait to delete that number."
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Interesting question... I still have numbers left in my phone that I haven't texted or called for months. So why do I keep them? I don't know, laziness perhaps. I guess my thinking's also been that just maybe, sometime, I might throw a text message and see what happens if I'm in the neighborhood. Anyway, I did actually delete a bunch of numbers a few days ago because I just knew that even if they'd be the last women on the planet I'd hestitate to contact them. Probably the best thing to do is to forget about it all together just to make sure that you don't contact them even by accident. That way you keep your pride intact. | |
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| How long do you wait to delete that number.
Posted: 8/27/2009 8:26:03 AM | I was thinking about this just yesterday.
I have a bad habit of holding onto hope for WAY too long. So I keep them.. For WAY too long. I really should clear them out.
I get the message, I don't call people I KNOW aren't interested. But still, something so incredibly final about deleting the number. Hard for me to suck up and do. | |
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| How long do you wait to delete that number.
Posted: 8/27/2009 6:48:23 PM | | He has to call 3 times before I will save it, and if I dont hear anything for a week, I delete it. Harsh, maybe, but to keep your ID and number on my phone you have to show me you care. | |
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| How long do you wait to delete that number.
Posted: 8/27/2009 7:17:20 PM | | I hate it too. I went to dinner with someone I met on POF last Thursday evening and we had a great time, enjoyed dinner and the conversation, walked around arm in arm, even kissed when we got to her car. I sent her a text thanking her for a wonderful evening, sent her a smiley face card on Sunday, got a sweet text from her on Sunday morning, got a thank you card for the one I sent to her, then bam....nothing all week. No answers to my texts, no answers to my email, I even sent her a virtual card to say I was just thinking about you and if she still wanted to do something. I give up. Why would anyone stop all of a sudden with no explanation at all? I just don't get it. | |
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| How long do you wait to delete that number.
Posted: 8/27/2009 7:26:38 PM | Friends- I don't delete. I have friends and acquaintances that I speak to only a few times each year (especially now with FBook).
Guys- I delete immediately. It is less annoying if I don't see the name when the inevitable phone call comes a few days or weeks (or months) later. Once, there was a guy that I was afraid I might call so I deleted his number and his calls.... | |
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| How long do you wait to delete that number.
Posted: 8/27/2009 7:58:54 PM |
Like another poster stated, I'll go through my address book when I'm bored and delete phone numbers. Those numbers I delete are usually people I don't remember!
Same here. Usually I keep everything, but if I see a name and think, "Wait, who's that?", there's obviously no reason to keep it!
But still, something so incredibly final about deleting the number. Hard for me to suck up and do.
Same here again. Partly because you just never know what's going to happen in life. Suppose, say, the nice mechanic with whom it didn't work out remembers, six months later, that I am friends with a lawyer, when a friend of his needs one. My lawyer friend might be able to get his car fixed in exchange for some advice to the mechanic's friend. I'd be happy to introduce them. But I wouldn't recognize the digits alone and so probably wouldn't pick up. That's just a hypothetical example, but I have talked with former dates for reasons unrelated to dating. | |
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Rynnnn
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Joined: 8/22/2009
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