Why? The CEO of PhoneJanitor is no longer reachable by a bunch of people in ways that I find useful. The associated at the VC firm that wants to follow up on funding this company? Denied. The CVS courtesy number reminding him his prescription is ready for pickup? Never gets through. His wife borrows a friends phone after hers dies? Can't even leave a voicemail.
It's one way to deal with spam and cold calls, but there's a real cost to these limits.
Tried that but it doesn't always work. The important people in your life may not know or remember that they've been given your real number, and they end up passing your number along to the next degre of people who you may not want to have your real number...and of course you have to juggle one more number (not unlike most of us who juggle more than one email for work, personal, side project, or side business, etc.).
Why? The CEO of PhoneJanitor is no longer reachable by a bunch of people in ways that I find useful. The associated at the VC firm that wants to follow up on funding this company? Denied. The CVS courtesy number reminding him his prescription is ready for pickup? Never gets through. His wife borrows a friends phone after hers dies? Can't even leave a voicemail.
It's one way to deal with spam and cold calls, but there's a real cost to these limits.