The people in your life have your number but you may not have it. Your phone number, that is.
When WhistleOut discovered that “what’s my number” receives 36,000 monthly searches, it set out to ask 425 Americans over the age of 16 If they know their phone number(Opens in a new window). One in five (21%) was behind those searches.
If that’s you, WhistleOut had a few suggestions: call a friend to ask, check the settings on your device, find yourself in your contacts list (usually under “Me” or “My Contacts”), or sign in to your carrier’s portal, or use the What is My Number(Opens in a new window) (Yes, such a thing exists).
With phone numbers attached to so much of our online lives, the majority of us remember our numbers. But when it comes to the numbers of people closest to us, that’s another story. Since we rarely have to call her directly, we may never have memorized her. Nearly half (49.4%) of those surveyed said they have two to five important phone numbers associated with memory. Less than 20% said they had memorized more than six.
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Parents should be flattered that 62% of those surveyed said they memorized their numbers. Partners were not far behind 57%. But the clear winners are the emergency contacts, 70% of whom have committed to memory.
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