• This is 1000% not true.

      1. They don’t care if you don’t answer. It costs them $0 to text you.

      2. My profession makes me a target for a wide variety of advertising and my phone number is required by law to be listed publicly.

      3. I already don’t. Mostly because Google Messages filters them in a way that I never even see them unless I’m actively looking. It was only when I got an iPhone that I realized exactly how horrific it is.