Telemarketers spamming your cell phone?
Last night someone told me that soon cell numbers were being made public to telemarketing firms and they'd be allowed to call you at will. They only defense was to sign up your cell number on the Do Not Call list.
My first reaction was that there was no way this could possibly be true, since A) Those are private numbers, and making those numbers public would be a business and public relations nightmare for every cell company, and B) each one of those calls would cost the cell owner money, eventually rendering whatever calling plan they have useless.
Anyway, I looked up the rumor on the net, and it turns out that a bogus email making the rounds is responsible for the confusion. Click here for the full story.
Still, imagine if that shit happened. I mean, a small handful of people have my cell number, that's it. Sometimes I just want to be unreachable, and if just any asshole could call…that phone would be in the fucking river.