People You Know Who Make Silent Phonecalls To You.

[mongers]

I've probably only encountered this a handful of times and all women, indeed I've never heard of a man doing it.

My question what's the reasoning behind it, I can speculate any number of reasons for doing it depending on the individual, but presumably part of it must be to engender some specific feelings/reaction in the person phoned, but what?

I'm confused, as I've only ever thought it slightly odd and a just a bit sad, why do it?

So have you had many instances of this happening? 

[Ideologue]

I don't know what this is.

[fhdz]

I don't know what this is.

I believe a "silent phonecall" is one in which the person calls you but does not say anything.

[Ideologue]

Are they masturbating, or what?

[mongers]

I don't know what this is.

People phoning you, non-marketing calls, and then putting the phone down after a few seconds without speaking.

[Ideologue]

Maybe he means text messages.

Edit: oh.  That's weird.  I've never seen it.

[Eddie Teach]

People phoning you, non-marketing calls, and then putting the phone down after a few seconds without speaking.

If they're hanging up, probably wrong number. If they stay on and don't speak, you may be in the middle of a horror film. 

[Liep]

Are the calls coming from inside the house?

[mongers]

People phoning you, non-marketing calls, and then putting the phone down after a few seconds without speaking.

If they're hanging up, probably wrong number. If they stay on and don't speak, you may be in the middle of a horror film. 

Well I'm primarily talking about the days when you could positvely verify who was calling.

Now you can't definitely prove anything, you'd probably have to log the calls and see if you could tie them to any significant dates etc, so barely better than a hunch.

Though interestingly of the two or three of these calls I've had in the last couple of months, one was the day after an ex-friends birthday and the other was the day after her son's birthday, but that could just be a coincidence.

[PRC]

When I see it is a telemarketer or some bullshit company on the call-display I will engage in a silent answer.

[CountDeMoney]

I don't know what this is.

I believe a "silent phonecall" is one in which the person calls you but does not say anything.

[pamplona]Fhdz has lost many friends to the "silent phonecall".[/pamplona]

[CountDeMoney]

Maybe he means text messages.

Edit: oh.  That's weird.  I've never seen it.

Between this and the serial killer chick, we're beginning to see more of mongers' social profile getting fleshed out.  And it is very disconcerting.

[Eddie Teach]

When I see it is a telemarketer or some bullshit company on the call-display I will engage in a silent answer.

Those are usually robots nowadays.

[CountDeMoney]

When I see it is a telemarketer or some bullshit company on the call-display I will engage in a silent answer.

Those are usually robots nowadays.

Yeah, and the software's got behavioral analytics built into to them now;  don't answer the phone, or it'll be logged as a live line and the call frequency will pick up.

[The Brain]

Sounds like butt dialing to me.