I have a bipolar relative who does this frequently.

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Anonymous wrote:People who change their numbers are weird. Clearly people that have a lot of drama and whom should be avoided.

I've had the same cell number for over 20 years, back to my first little Nokia.

That's definitely something old people do.

So you're saying it's a smart thing to do, I agree. With age comes wisdom.

Keeping the same number long term indicates a stable life. I choose that.

Anonymous wrote:My friend is paranoid and has changed her number 4 times in the past 5 years. She says her phone keeps getting hacked. The “hackers” are men she has dated from the apps.

She sounds unstable.

My friend is paranoid and has changed her number 4 times in the past 5 years. She says her phone keeps getting hacked. The “hackers” are men she has dated from the apps.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People who change their numbers are weird. Clearly people that have a lot of drama and whom should be avoided.

I've had the same cell number for over 20 years, back to my first little Nokia.

Same here, and now that I have to worry about not only losing my low-digit number, but also my 202 area code you'd have to pry my number out of my cold dead hands.

What is a low digit number

You ever see taxis or lawyers with 777-7777 or 222-2222 numbers? Those are low-digit numbers.

When cell phones became mainstream the telcos released large tranches of new numbers with previously unused prefixes. So for instance if you live in NW DC you'll notice lots of 202-966-xxxx or 202-363-xxxx numbers because those were the traditional landline prefixes. People who got cell phones early got first pick of the desirable numbers from the new prefixes, either low, sequential, or memorable digits.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People who change their numbers are weird. Clearly people that have a lot of drama and whom should be avoided.

I've had the same cell number for over 20 years, back to my first little Nokia.

Same here, and now that I have to worry about not only losing my low-digit number, but also my 202 area code you'd have to pry my number out of my cold dead hands.

Ditto for my 703. I don't want no stinkin' 571.

Seriously. You’re not real DMV folk without a 301,202 or 703.

Anonymous wrote:My friend had a crazy ex who kept signing up for things using their phone number.

And pursued through multiple number changes?

Anonymous wrote:People who change their numbers are weird. Clearly people that have a lot of drama and whom should be avoided.

I've had the same cell number for over 20 years, back to my first little Nokia.

That's definitely something old people do.

Anonymous wrote:Maybe they’re just smart enough to port their number.

*Not smart enough.

Also if they don't pay their bill regularly, they lose the number.

Anonymous wrote:Criminal activity. Report them to the local police.

Lol police aren't going to come arrest a dude for changing his number.

The only time I changed my cell phone number is when we moved from the California to Virginia. I know you don't "have to" change your phone number, but my kids were going to a private school that required a "local area code" phone number for the phone tree (this was about 15 years ago.) If I kept my old area code, they were going to require me to give them one of my neighbor's phone numbers and then they would have called my neighbors to relay messages to me instead of calling my "out of the area' phone number. Obviously I wasn't about to put my neighbors in that position so we changed our phone numbers to a local area code.

I’ve had the same number since 1996!
First bag car phone (Nokia, $9.99/month, just allowed emergency calls)

Criminal activity. Report them to the local police.

My SIL does this. She has credit problems and likely has debt collectors calling her.

Cheaters have to a lot of times.