Do You Know Your Own Phone Number?
The people in your life have your number but you may not. Your phone number, that is.
When WhistleOut found out that "what is my phone number" receives 36,000 monthly searches, it set out to ask 425 Americans over the age of 16 if they knew their own phone number(Opens in a new window). One in five (21%) owned up to being behind those searches.
If that’s you, WhistleOut had some suggestions: Phoning a friend to ask, checking under settings on your device, searching for yourself on your contact list (usually under “Me” or “My Contact”), logging into your carrier’s portal, or using the What’s My Number app(Opens in a new window) (yep, such a thing exists).
With phone numbers attached to so much of our online lives, the majority of us do remember our numbers. But when it comes to the numbers of even those closest to us, that’s another story. Since we rarely have to directly dial them, we might never have memorized them. Nearly half (49.4%) of those surveyed said they do have two to five important phone numbers committed to memory. Less than 20% said that they’ve memorized more than six.
Parents should be flattered since 62% of those surveyed said they had their numbers memorized. Partners were not too far behind at 57%. But the clear winners are the emergency contacts whose numbers 70% have committed to memory.
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