What critera do you use when adding people to your phone?

If I call them, or they call me.

Will I ever call them?

When I’ve looked up their number about three times I finally get the clue that they shopuld be in my phone.

If I’ll need info or services from them in the future.

if it’s a number I’ll probably use more than a few times or one I should have handy (like the oil company or my son’s school). For people, my criterion is that we are past the point of friendship and it is someone I could see myself spending time with.

It’s easy enough to put people into my phone, so I don’t have any criteria, for that. My criteria depends on who I’m going to bother getting a number from. I find phones rather pointless in getting to know somebody, so when I do, it’s usually after I’ve known them for a while. Sometimes, that’s unavoidable, and that is, usually, the only times I’ll add numbers to my phone, I need to phone somebody for work. I’m not much a fan of texting to get to know people, and calling is such an inconvenience when you don’t live alone. But that’ll change soon, I figure.

I add coworkers that I may need information from quickly, everyone on my team at work, the cell phone numbers of people whose landlines I have memorized, people that move a lot, roommates and friends of my daughters (in case they go missing), businesses that I call with some frequency – mostly carry-out places, insurance agent, board members from volunteer events I work on, doctors, dentists, etc. and the police. Not 911, but the district station, the number you call for a car accident, foot patrol downtown, etc.

I carry a paper address book in my brief case, and have a back-up of that on my iPod that also includes people I only communicate with through e-mail.

I use the paper one the most. It has other things in it, like screen names for different sites.

If I need to call them, and might need to do it more than once, they go in the phone.
If they call me, and I think they might call me again, they go in the phone.

If I think I may need or want to call them again.

Job contacts, vendors, and customers that I have a shot at doing business with again.

Then there are the one’s I never want to talk to ever again, but put them in my phone book so I can see when they call so I can decline the call. I’ll list it as “so and so, no answer”. I have 2 or 3 of those. For some strange reason they are the one’s who never lose my number.

Mostly people whom i might need to call. I also add people from the received call list sometimes just to know who’s calling and if i really need to take that call or just ignore.

If I need to call them I add them.

But after that if I don’t call them or they don’t call after a period of 4–5 months I delete their numbers. If I happenb to ever need their help in any way I just say ” sh*t happens ”.

Not to mention that most of the times I do not answer to “unknown calls ” [ even the numbers I don’t know ] This because I have friends who do not change their numbers every 2 months .. I have the same number for over 9 years now.