I see the humor in this, but I am also exactly the kind of nerd that has correct data fields for everybody from my wife to my grandma and nice and nephews. In a text conversation it’s usually just profile picture with first name under it.
I suspect I’m not the only one, considering the audience.
My girlfriend saved me as "DO NOT PICK UP [my name] [my birthday] [my field of study]" The DO NOT PICK UP part is from a time when I didn't have a flatrate for calls and she had... but that was like 5 years ago.
Having your birthday in your name field is kind of sweet of her
Fyi, if you're bad with names, I would HIGHLY recommend adding photos to your contacts, as you add them.
It helps hugely with putting names to faces. It also helps differentiate between people. E.g. When you have 5 marks in your phone, but can't remember the surname. Lastly, it helps when you are describing someone to someone else. Being able to easily pull up a photo of them simplifies things.
A relatively crappier version of this is to add them middle names. Brassica Walmart Kale might look weird if they see it, but it will help you remember that you know Brassica Kale from Walmart. For older compatibility reasons, I used to store helpful middle names starting with a period, so it's easier to search for them (so Brassica .Walmart Kale). Addig photos is a great idea, I don't do it often enough (as long as they let you take a photo).
people don't do this for family at least?
Don't have a work phone?
You're in my phone as WORK XXXXX WORK
I know not to answer immediately.
I was looking very carefully for a subtle spelling difference or something before realising that it is "bad" to use a person's name.
But it's not really bad, right?
... right?
it's "bad" to have your spouse's contact name as their full name rather than "wife", it's the same thing as having your parent call you by your full name
Or it's security conscious. You know who your wife, mom, dad, siblings etc. all are but if they're saved in your phone that way and someone gets access to your contacts it's easier to, potentially, phish them because you can manipulate the relationship.
Otherwise they're just a bunch of names that don't mean much to anyone but you or people that know you.
I think most people's conversation with their wife would indicate their relationship anyway. Probably a pointless differentiation.
Maybe, maybe not, but it could mean the difference between having your account emptied and not.
It's also not very good security keeping long text chains saved rather than periodically deleting and starting a new one with people you text private information too.
It's always going to be a compromise between security and ease of use, just a matter of where each person falls.
It seems like the real difference might be how many people are on your contact list. When I only had a handful of friends and family I would also be informal. However at one point I synched a company directory and since then have been much more complete with my contact data so they are easier to find
Interesting, I have my wife in my phone as Jennifer Wortman also
I'll go ahead and add your wife's last name to my phone now that I know it, thanks mate
Full name is useful for searching and sorting.
But where’s the obvious joke about the triplets?
All contacts on my phone are stored with their real full name including my wife, children and parents. Maybe it's my adhd but I would hate trying to find someone but can't remember how I saved their details.
I started doing this more properly when I kept finding myself with contacts like "Jim Applebee's" and "McFucker" and having zero idea who they were actually ever attached to
I find it very useful to have my wife's full name in my contacts.
We are involved in a lot of community organizations, and it makes it super easy to just share her contact card with people.
Now that you mention, maybe my brother shouldn't have saved his fiancé as "Suspected Spam". Weird to share.
My friend's daughter has her as "Spawn Point"
Same here, never edited her contact in 15 years I think
I editet my wifes last name when we married. She wanted to change her name, necessitating the hassle for me to edit her contact information
Same! The lengths we go for the people we love...
This is crazy. What kind of barbarian doesn't properly format contacts in a standardized and civilized way?!?
If he doesn't change it to "WORTMAN, Jennifer" very soon, that's ground for divorce.
Should have at least a middle initial, if not full middle name. Never know, might meet another Jennifer Wortman one day and it would probably be best to have some way of differentiating between the two. So you don't accidentally schedule a sex appointment with the other one and end up in the awkward position of either needing to cheat on your wife or break an appointment with 0 notice.
People do regular maintensnce on their contacts?
I just noticed i've got each name x3 (exports & imports) and some of them last used 15 years ago.
I just lost a dozen blood vessels ^^
That's a good thing. Means he never got rid of her as a contact, kept her since the first time they exchanged numbers!
I don't think I've ever updated anyone's name in my contacts lol My married friends are all still thier OG names.
I finally put my sister in law in my phone with our now shared last name just today, since she texted me on my first phone that didn't just use google's backup on all my contacts and I had to look the number on my old phone and add her to this one.
"Wife #1"
Didn't take it well
As long as you list the other one as "Wife A" so that neither feels inferior.
Or or, the fighting mongooses! That's a cool name!
My rebuttal of "what, you wanna be #2" did nothing to ease the tension
I have two friends who have been a couple for 2 years and stiil both had each other's contacts as "name Japanese" because they met in a Japanese class.