Under what names have you saved your family in your phone?

[The_J]

Am I weird for having my family saved as first name + last name?
Just want to have a little survey .

 

[Kyriakos]

I use four digits of their phone number as their "name". You'd know less by seeing their 'name' than their actual number, which I find mildly amusing.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Am I weird for having my family saved as first name + last name?
Just want to have a little survey .

It could be useful if there's an emergency and somebody needs to contact them for you.

I picked the last option, though I don't have my rotary phone anymore. I do have a touch-tone landline that doesn't store anything but dust. I don't have an answering machine, and it would be weird anyway if I phoned my parents. They're both dead. I don't let Maddy use the phone, so there's really nobody's name to save anyway, even if I had the kind of phone that lets you do that.

 

[Birdjaguar]

My parents are dead. Our children are listed by name.

 

[Arakhor]

I used to have my parents' number listed just as Parents and my sister under her first name only. Now I just have Dad, but I only changed that six years after my mother was no longer with us.

 

[lymond]

Parents were by Mom and Dad. Sister, Uncle and cousins by first name

 

[Smellincoffee]

Parents are known by titles, siblings by first names. Some names I attach info to -- "Chloe - Doctor", "Hayley Insurance", etc.

 

[really]

Parents by their given names. I think I had their house phone as 'Home' for a long time then as they got their own mobile numbers these got added with given names. Home got merged with my mother's contact eventually.
One sister in with maiden name, the other with married name.

My parents landline is the only number I dial as it is easier than navigating to it.

 

[Narz]

When you have kids your mom turns into Gramma

 

[tjs282]

Wife and sons are under their first-name initials.

Mother, sister, in-laws, friends, and those colleagues whose numbers I've stored were/are under their first names.

Other stored numbers are usually labeled by function (mechanic, plumber, etc.)

 

[The_J]

Okay, I'm relieved that I'm not too weird .

I do realize that I should have included the "significant other" maybe too in the poll .

 

[PPQ_Purple]

I am a caveman from the last century so I memorize important numbers instinctively.

 

[Birdjaguar]

I am a caveman from the last century so I memorize important numbers instinctively.

There was a time when I probably had 50 important phone numbers memorized. That is down to 4 now: mine, my wife's, our old landline number and the house phone I grew up with in Baltimore.

 

[stfoskey12]

I have everyone in my phone saved as First Name Last Name, unless I don't know their last name, in which case I might use their occupation or how I met them.

 

[warpus]

Nice try, scammers

Kidding but mine is all over the place. I wouldn't really communicate anything like this in public though, in terms of the details. Scammers are getting more and more resourceful. The less they know me and my habits, the better

 

[Tee Kay]

I use whatever name I most commonly refer to them. Whether I add a last name or not depends on whether it's a common first name. My SO for example is under their first name + last name since their first name is relatively common.

 

[Quintillus]

Takes notes on who played too much Crusader Kings and thus no longer has relatives in their phone book...

I have them stored by names. Switched to that quite a few years ago after I knew someone who had had her phone stolen (or lost + picked up by someone else?), and whoever took possession of it contacted her parents (listed as Mom and Dad or similar) and tried to convince them that they had taken her hostage and wanted a ransom, or something of that sort. Lots of unnecessary panic was involved.

That was back in the day when it was more common to have non-passcode-protected phones, so less of a concern now, and if someone did steal my phone and it was unlocked, they could probably make a good guess of who my family was based on call history. Still, there's not really a downside to having them stored by name, as I know what my family's names are.

 

[Marla_Singer]

When I was younger, I was leading a professional meeting, my phone started to vibrate and it was saying "mom" on the screen. This made laugh my colleagues. Since then, I changed both of my parents to their real names. I can't see any good reason why I would like strangers in public space to know that my parents are calling me.