Old Phone Numbers

[+ Gar1eth]

I've  been using an iPhone since about 2009. At that time I  transferred all my escort phone numbers from my old non-smart mobile phone to my new at the time iPhone. Over the years I kept adding to my escort phone numbers. And with each new smart phone, I'd transfer the data from the old phone to the new one.
 

To keep track of them all, I put a 'Z' in front of their last names. That way I could always find them all grouped together in my phone directory*. My last real escort  hire was back in 2018-wasn't a great experience.  But now I don't hire anymore. And even if I did, the majority of the guys in my directory  have retired. But I haven't deleted them.
 

Oh and I also have an Expedia Account. I haven't used it in years. But when I was hiring and often flying escorts to me, I had to put their real names in along with their birthdates. I wasn't even sure if the account was still active since it had been at least 10 years since I last used it.  But I tried to get into it a few weeks ago and was able to access it. And all the old info was still there. Escorts actual names and their birthdays. 
 

Anyone else have reams of old data **that they haven't gotten rid of?
 

*I also do that with the guys I meet from the hook-up apps. But I've been thinking lately about changing them to another rarely used letter.
 

** I just looked. I still have Daddy's old phone number. It's a 714 area code. Before he moved to Las Vegas and was still in Washington state, we met for lunch at least once and possibly  twice in Tukwila, Wa.  I had been a member here for so long but had never had the chance to make a  Palm Springs Weekend.  It was really a thrill for me to be able to finally meet and talk with him. 

[+ Vegas_Millennial]

1 hour ago, Gar1eth said:

Anyone else have reams of old data **that they haven't gotten rid of?

It's probably okay to begin by deleting the telephone numbers that use exchange names:

KLondike 5-1234, for example

[samhexum]

24 minutes ago, Vegas_Millennial said:

It's probably okay to begin by deleting the telephone numbers that use exchange names:

KLondike 5-1234, for example

Or if you had Hetty Woodstone's from GHOSTS.  It was 4.  (They were the first in the county to have a phone.)

[+ purplekow]

In the past, I have used my childhood phone number with an exchange as my password.  It was useless information that was repurposed and did not require a great memory to recall.  For awhile I added special characters at the end but that did start to be problematic in recall which ones I used and how many.  In the past I also used the letters in the phone numbers of some import to make a word which made it easier to recall the number.  Now mnemonics and other devices to recall information is essentially obsolete.  

[samhexum]

8 minutes ago, purplekow said:

In the past I also used the letters in the phone numbers of some import to make a word which made it easier to recall the number. 

I had a friend who remembered a mutual friend's # as ANTCLOT

 

[+ Charlie]

I was going through my old address book the other day, and I realized that more than half of the names and phone numbers had been crossed out because the individuals had moved or were deceased. I decided I need to buy a new address book and transfer just the current info. (I wouldn't keep that kind of info on a tech device for fear that it would be hacked, or lost when something went wrong with the device.)

[Nue2thegame]

9 hours ago, Charlie said:

I was going through my old address book the other day, and I realized that more than half of the names and phone numbers had been crossed out because the individuals had moved or were deceased. I decided I need to buy a new address book and transfer just the current info. (I wouldn't keep that kind of info on a tech device for fear that it would be hacked, or lost when something went wrong with the device.)

But an address book can be lost or stolen, too. Current inexpensive encryption makes hacking unlikely and most are backed up on the cloud. It’s much easier to update contacts and transfer to new devices when you upgrade. Come join us in the new millennium, Charlie - once you make the leap, you’ll love it. 

[+ poolboy48220]

12 hours ago, Nue2thegame said:

But an address book can be lost or stolen, too. Current inexpensive encryption makes hacking unlikely and most are backed up on the cloud. It’s much easier to update contacts and transfer to new devices when you upgrade. Come join us in the new millennium, Charlie - once you make the leap, you’ll love it. 

Agreed. I've always kept a paper planner/calendar but have just recently moving to using the reminders on my phone. It's working well so far (although I'm still keeping appointments in both places).  

Sidebar, it's amazing how expensive paper planners can be.  I've found one that's $6-$7, but some of these can be in the $40 range. 

[maninsoma]

I don't keep phone numbers of providers I've hired and know I won't hire again, with one exception:  If someone was basically a scam artist or time waster, I will keep that number just in case he changes photos but keeps using the same phone number.  

I DO keep photos of everyone I hire for two reasons: One is to be able to reminisce about particularly good encounters, the other is to remind myself of less successful hires in case I notice an appealing photo in a new ad and don't remember hiring the guy.  I have photos of almost everyone I've hired except for the early days of hiring out of newspaper ads, or guys I've met in person and hired, which has happened exclusively when traveling.  

[+ Charlie]

17 hours ago, Nue2thegame said:

But an address book can be lost or stolen, too. Current inexpensive encryption makes hacking unlikely and most are backed up on the cloud. It’s much easier to update contacts and transfer to new devices when you upgrade. Come join us in the new millennium, Charlie - once you make the leap, you’ll love it. 

Every time I try to make the leap, I fall off a cliff. I have just finished a frustrating attempt for the past half hour to open a social invitation that was emailed to me, but I cannot figure out how to open it. For better or worse, I am a product of a pen and paper world, and will probably always remain so.

[+ JamesB]

I used to clean out my phone book back when it was an actual paper one. Every couple of years I’d replace it, and that was the perfect time to do some housekeeping. Since going digital, though, I haven’t bothered. Now I just have a ton of useless contacts sitting there with no real reason or pressure to delete them.

[+ jeezopete]

[maninsoma]

17 hours ago, JamesB said:

I used to clean out my phone book back when it was an actual paper one. Every couple of years I’d replace it, and that was the perfect time to do some housekeeping. Since going digital, though, I haven’t bothered. Now I just have a ton of useless contacts sitting there with no real reason or pressure to delete them.

Isn't the main reason for deleting old contacts to simply have fewer contacts to scroll through?  

[+ JamesB]

27 minutes ago, maninsoma said:

Isn't the main reason for deleting old contacts to simply have fewer contacts to scroll through?  

 

Personally, I never scroll through my contacts, I just use the search function. So whether I have 1,000 or 10,000 contacts doesn’t really make a difference to me.

[maninsoma]

1 hour ago, JamesB said:

 

Personally, I never scroll through my contacts, I just use the search function. So whether I have 1,000 or 10,000 contacts doesn’t really make a difference to me.

Whatever works for you.  I have very few actual contacts (meaning people and businesses I want to be identified when they contact me or whom I contact frequently), so it's faster for me to swipe down to the correct entry than it would be to search.