Technology is great. It really is, however, I have a complaint. But first I have to explain to those born before the 70's how I would look up a phone number.
There was a large book called the telephone book and it was huge. It is amazing that each county had their own phone book and they were all huge. Page after page of people you wanted to be able to contact. It seems like a hassle, but at least when you looked in the phone book and circled the name of who you were looking for, that was the end of the search. Now a days... it is quite different.
In my cell phone I have four listings for my friend. All of them have the same phone number, but I can't see that when I am just trying to look up her number. Instead what I see is choices between her nickname, her first name, her full name, her Mrs. so and so name. I know I'm the one who must have entered her into my phone multiple times, but still it is frustrating to try and figure out which title to use. I could delete some of them, but I am always skeptical about deleting because what if I have an added bit of info on one of the entries I delete?
And as troublesome this is with my personal phone, you should see my contact list at work. It is mind boggling. You see my company has five branches and we cross over on our contacts. So one person may have a contact in by their first name only, but another might have the contact under both their first and last name. Some employees list their contact by the company they work for, or by their role in the company. We have numerous duplicates salesforce and again, deleting is not the answer. Some of my fellow employees have cell phone numbers, or work phone line extension numbers that others have not included in their entry of the contact.
Technology can be frustrating. But shouldn't technology find a solution?
This is a sponsored post for Ring Lead, however, all the points and views are my own.
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