Phone Books Going Extinct, Finally

[HalJordan]

Phone books, and unwanted newspapers that I did not subscribe to...oddly enough the newspapers are full of ads for green companies...

 

[brando56894]

I havent used one a physcial one in god knows how long but I carry a virtual one with me every day (yellow pages app for android 😀 ). At my college house we had one delivered and it just sat on the porch for months until someone finally threw it away, I'm glad theyre doing away with them!

 

[bsbsbsbs]

if you don't have quick access to Google you're just lot living in the 21st century. Make it all opt-in only and save some damn trees.

 

[el_bastardo74]

[citation][nom]DXRick[/nom]I still use mine too. It's still quicker than using the internet to find numbers for local businesses.I still have a land line phone too.[/citation]

not me...high speed internet, type name of business in search engine and i get instantaneous results.

 

[el_bastardo74]

funny, i was just talking to my wife about this when we got another yellow pages the other day. i keep it just in case this pc, my wifes pc and my 2 old rigs happen to fail at the same time. i don't have a cell phone that has access to the internet...i spend all my money on pcs, pc peripherals, games and home theater. so i have to hang on to these monstrosities just in case

 

[DjEaZy]

... so many trees saved...

 

[g00fysmiley]

great.. now where will i get access to free kindling for starting fires for gatherings in my burn pit >_<

 

[noblerabbit]

iphone ebook. Problem solved.
alas, how will E.T phone home?

 

[gm0n3y]

But what will strongmen tear up with their hands?

 

[o0RaidR0o]

[citation][nom]alidan[/nom]i have a phone book, it covers the 20 closest places to where i live. granted i never use it to look people up but i do use the yellow pages.i honestly cant imagine a world without yellow pages, and some physical means of looking crap like this up, because electronics die, and some point, they always do. if my computer died, i would need the yellow pages to look up at the very least a place to fix it. because no mater how compatant i am, i cant diagnose a mother board fail, cpu fail, ram fail or graphics card fail without some means of display.[/citation]
In this day and age, I'm almost sure you have some form of a smart phone, that you can still access information from. am I right, huh!, am I?

 

[wishtar]

Yellow Book needs to stop their madness. I already get three different phone books from different telco's. The last thing I need is another one. It ends up straight into the recycle bin.

 

[tmax]

The Yellow Pages also need to stop being printed and sent out. The stack that is delivered to my apartment building in NYC sits in the lobby for about a month before the superintendent puts them out front for trash pickup. We get one book per apt and most people in the building don't even have land lines. What a waste.

 

[gm0n3y]

[citation][nom]tmax[/nom]The Yellow Pages also need to stop being printed and sent out. The stack that is delivered to my apartment building in NYC sits in the lobby for about a month before the superintendent puts them out front for trash pickup. We get one book per apt and most people in the building don't even have land lines. What a waste.[/citation]
My thoughts exactly. The same goes for our local free newspaper. There is a perpetual stack that gets topped off daily by the delivery guy. Even so often the building manager gets a shovel and loads them into the trash. Since they're left outside, they're usually too waterlogged/rotten to recycle by then.

 

[robochump]

I live in Silicon Valley and I get about 4 Phone books a year still! lol They are smaller but damn...4!?! I don't even ask for them and forced to have them thrown at my house.

 

[dark_lord69]

Thank g*d, I keep getting them put on my doorstep but they just go directly into recycling. They are a waist of time and money. They really need to stop printing them!

 

[Thunderfox]

The Yellow Pages are still useful to older people, and I used one a couple of years ago during a power outage, but the white pages seemed pointless even back in the day. Why would you need to call people you don't already know?

 

[WyomingKnott]

I still get a phone book because every time I try to look up a person's phone number on line I am deluged with ads and offered the information I wanted for the low price of $2.97 per month when I join up.

 

[Guest]

I haven't used White Pages *or* Yellow Pages for years.

Google Maps is the new Yellow Pages for me. I can look for all sorts of stores, restaurants etc and I get to see them nicely marked on a map.

 

[WyomingKnott]

[citation][nom]gm0n3y[/nom]But what will strongmen tear up with their hands?[/citation]
Copies of the Tax Code? Lists of lawsuits brought by Microsoft?