Call Someone – Without Having To Talk To Them

waderoush writes "After a long beta period, Boston-based MobileSphere launched a 'straight-to-voicemail' service yesterday called Slydial. If you call 267-SLY-DIAL and listen to a short ad, you can then be connected to the voicemail inbox of any US mobile phone subscriber, without causing their phone to ring. Sounds kinda useful — but incredibly, MobileSphere is pitching the service as a way to avoid actually communicating with all those difficult, boring people in your life. In reply to suggestions that Slydial erodes and cheapens genuine human interaction, a MobileSphere exec says the company is just combating technology with technology, by helping people take control of whether and when to talk with their friends, family, and coworkers."

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Obligatory Grammar Nazi Post

[scottfk]

The headline should read "Call Someone - Without Having To Talk To Him" (him or her, if you prefer) rather than "them".

"Someone" is a singular indefinite pronoun. Thus the object of "to talk" must also be singular.

Re:Not exactly correct.

[qoncept]

Incorrect method 1:
"Hi! This is *name*. Call me."
Unless you are the girlfriend/boyfriend. Then it is allowable.

I'm trying to think of something clever to say but I've got nothing, so I'll just say it. What the hell is wrong with you? When I see a voicemail from my wife I almost immediately push 7 to delete it. "The girlfriend" doesn't have anything to say, so it's never allowable. The fact that they leave a voicemail at all is the root of the problem.

Re:Pound Sand.

[WhatAmIDoingHere]

I want to see how Twitter can turn this into an anti-Microsoft thread.

You're on, Twitter, make us proud.