Do you use the phone book....?
By Tiff Gray
@T_gray (7772)
Salina, Kansas
January 28, 2016 9:41pm CST
So I am not sure how it is everywhere else, but around here they deliver the phone book like they would the newspaper. They put it in a bag and put it on your front porch or by your front door. And typically for me it will end up sitting there for weeks until I finally pick it up and throw it away.
This time, my roommate brought it in, and it will probably sit on my table until I clean it off with the rest of the junk mail that sits there.
I haven't used a phone book in many years. Not since smart phones came out, and you could look up numbers on the internet. I actually became really good at looking up businesses, since I do it so often anymore.
Do you use phone books? Or do you throw them away or recycle them like I do?
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@aju007 (1460)
• Thiruvananthapuram, India
31 Jan 16
@infatuatedbby Yeah there would be printing mistakes.
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@infatuatedbby (94909)
• United States
31 Jan 16
I never used a phone book personally myself either. Saw my dad use it a few times but the number in the book wasn't even accurate, lol.
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@infatuatedbby (94909)
• United States
31 Jan 16
That's a great idea that the phonebooks are recycled to paper plates.
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@infatuatedbby (94909)
• United States
29 Jan 16
We don't use our phone book either.......... waste of paper and money since the internet is our phone book! 
And probably with updated numbers too!
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@infatuatedbby (94909)
• United States
31 Jan 16
@T_gray That would be a good idea or if people want it, to go online and request so then they will have an idea of how many households would want it to print. Otherwise, the paper could go toward other things..... instead of being printed and tossed out!
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@T_gray (7772)
• Salina, Kansas
31 Jan 16
@infatuatedbby exactly, that's a great idea
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@xstitcher (39050)
• Petaluma, California
29 Jan 16
I use it now and again, sometimes when looking for the address of a business, or when I'm hoping against hope that someone whose phone number I don't have is listed.
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@T_gray (7772)
• Salina, Kansas
30 Jan 16
@xstitcher Oh I was unaware of that. I guess for people who have landlines.
@Missmwngi (12915)
• Nairobi, Kenya
29 Jan 16
If you were to tell someone about phone bool around here it would mean the contact list on your phone
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@carlaabt (3504)
• United States
29 Jan 16
We have one in our car. We only use it if the kid forgets to turn on his Wi-Fi and ends up using too much data. Haha. Otherwise we just use our phones to look stuff up to. My son's almost ten and has a smart phone. So we always have the ability to look any number up right in our pocket.
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@snowy22315 (209073)
• United States
29 Jan 16
very rarely, I think they will be extinct in a few years. I would only use one if my internet was down and I needed something,
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@danny1971 (1747)
• Church Hill, Tennessee
29 Jan 16
I don't use phone books anymore neither since I have a smartphone and an internet access to my laptop. I am with Boost Mobile, and they have an app built into the phone that it is called 411, and you can search for phone numbers through the app without going onto your browser. So, I like my smartphone, and like using the internet for my business calls.
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