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”
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 also have all people saved with first and last name, but I don’t always have all first names saved (so mostly only the name they go by) and I have additional nicknames saved for some friends.
I also have all my contacts with full name sorted by last name. Just makes searching a contact easier, also that way you can tell Siri to call someone using their full name. You can just put in the contact details what your relationship is to that person and Siri will use that info. So you can just say to Siri “Call my wife” “Call my son” and still have them stored with their full name.
Why sorted by last name? To find supposedly related people?
i used to do this but then i realized i should use names like “dad” & “mom” just in case something happens to me and someone tries to quickly find a relative to call.
You can stick emergency contact information on your phone. It’s accessable without having to unlock it.
i know. not everyone does though.
Exactly what I did and there also is a ICE number in the contact list (number stored a second time with the real name)
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
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.
I never update numbers. I realize when I see things like Danielle (Brothers name’s gf).
He married her in 2019 and they have 2 kids now. Pretty safe to say I could have updated it. Just about every woman I know who got married and changed their last name, I never updated. I never delete numbers either, I don’t actively talk to the 890 contacts in my phone, I may talk to 4. They just don’t take up enough room to bother and who knows, maybe I go back to another town 10 years from now and call a random guy I remember. If we met up at bar it’d be like we had been hanging out the week before anyways.
“Wife #1”
Didn’t take it well
As long as you list the other one as “Wife A” so that neither feels inferior.
My rebuttal of “what, you wanna be #2” did nothing to ease the tension
Omg, you went for it. You’ve got balls of steel, my man.
“Ohh, but my phone puts last names before first names. I actually wrote you in as #1 Wife, because you’re the best wife in the world!”
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
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.
“<husband name> tinder”
Lucy Tinder
Maggie Tinder
Renee Tinder
Christopher Tinder
Diana Tinder
It’s a big family
I was looking very carefully for a subtle spelling difference or something before realising that it is “bad” to use a person’s name.
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
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 still call my SO by his first name. We are married. Is that weird?
What else would you call them?
Jennifer Wortman
Damn that’s good. I’m stealing this.
babe
Hun
Supreme Commander
I do the same. All of these “pet names” people use for each other always sound really weird to me.
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 wife is in my phone as her real name, but only because that puts her at the top of the list in my favorites (her name starts with ‘A’)
Her real name huh
What’s her secret identity name?
OPSEC. I have history disabled on my phone. If anyone were to somehow access it, they would have more difficulty figuring out who is close to me.
OPSEC: My mum is listed in my phone by her maiden name. The contact “Mum” is actually the police emergency line.
Ransom this, shitass
They could just read your texts though
What are you imagining here? Like someone steals your phone to find out who you are close to to then what kidnap them?
How can you live like this it sounds exhausting. Even if it’s the feds then they’ll contact the cell provider and get your call history.
