Please people! Do not put periods in your phone number. I know you are trying to be cool, but phone numbers have DASHES, not dots. It’s not an IP address. I know you want to look all cool, but it’s just wrong, wrong, and wrong. What if one day I decided to use slashes instead of periods for abbreviations? That would just be silly, wouldn’t it?
For the love of phone numbers, please give them the respect they deserve and use dashes. In fact, I was talking with a phone the other day and it told me that they all prefer the dash. I heard it come straight from the mouth of a phone!
hey, spud, remember my blog post about sandpaper and somehow a bunch of “sand” made it to the comments section? Well, I think the sand is coming to your comments section to mingle with all the periods that people put in phone numbers. Ooop. Here’s some now: . … ……. ……. .. . . .. . .. . . . .. .. . . . . .. . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . …. . . . . …… . . …. .. . . …. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . …… . . ….. . . . . . . . . . . . …. . . . . …… . . …. .. . . …. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . …… . . ….. . . . . . . . . . . . …. . . . . …… . . …. .. . . …. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . …… . . ….. . . . . . . . . . . . …. . . . . …… . . …. .. . . …. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . it’s periods from all the phone numbers that shouldn’t have periods in them. They are attacking your blog . . . . …… . . ….. . . . . . . . . . . . …. . . . . …… . . …. .. . . …. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . …… . . ….. . . . . . . . . . . . …. . . . . …… . . …. .. . . …. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . …… . . ….. . . . . . . . . . . . …. . . . . …… . . …. .. . . …. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . …… . . ….. . . . . . . . . . . . …. . . . . …… . . …. .. . . …. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . …… . . ….. . . . . . . . . . . . …. . . . . …… . . …. .. . . …. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . …… . . ….. . . . . . . . . . . . …. . . . . …… . . …. .. . . …. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . …… . . …. . . .. . . .. . . .. . . .. . . .. . . .. . . .. . . . . .. . . .. . .
oh no! now the numerals from the phone numbers are mixing in with the periods. 4 5 . 44 5 . 2 45 2 45 . 4. .. . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 454 .. .. .. .. .. 4 .. .. . . . 67 . .. … .. .. .2. .. .. .. .. .7 .. . .. .. .6 .. .. . .. . . . . .. 2. .. .. .. . . . . . . . . 3 . .. 4. .. . . 8 . . 1 . 2 . 3 . 5 .6 . 7 . .. .. .. . . … 3. . . . … .. .. .. .9 . . . . . . . . . . . . 2. … . . . .. .5 .5 . 55 . 55 4 .4 3 5 2 31 . . . . .. .. . . … … … . .. .9 . .. .. .. . .5 44 3. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. 23 4. .. . .. .. .. .. . .. . . .. . . . .. . .. .. … .. . 87 6.. … .. .. …. … . … 27 4. . . . . . …. . .. 4 56. . … . .. .. 1 2 1. … .. .. .. . . . .. . .87 2.. .. . 3 7 6 . . . . 1 8 9 . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 . 8 . 8 . . . . . . 4 . . . . . . . . 0 . . . . 2 4 3 7 8 6 4 3 2 5 7 8 . . . . . . . . . 5 . . . . . 9 . . . . . . . . 4 4 5 . . . . . . . . 1 . 8 7 6 . . . . . . . . . 2 2 . 4 . 5 . 6 . 7 . 8 . 6 . 5 4 . 4 4 4 4 . 3 3 . 6 . . . . . . . 8 . 8 7 . 7 . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 . . . . . . . . … …. . . . . . …… . ….. . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . …. … . .. . . . . . . . What a mess!….
I. do. not. like. periods. in. phone. numbers.
Oh wait. I know. Let’s use exclamation points in phone numbers, because that make just as much sense as using periods.
Here’s my old phone number that I cancelled this week: 773!784!9329
Dashes? Why dashes? Who said dashes are the only thing you can use in a number. 🙂 I prefer periods myself, then next spaces, which is what the rest of the world tends to use. Ah, to go back to the day when a phone number was in the format of Lexington 5689! mp/m
I like the exclamation points, but I like this even better 773|784|9329 [i”>stylin'[/i”> btw, I abandoned the period a while ago. My personal business cards just have a space between the sets of numbers. I think I might re-do them with the | … what is that called anyway?
Ah yes, Tin. The | character was a debate on spudart.org back in the day of 2003. It’s officially called, “the pipe.” I do not encourage the use of the pipe in phone numbers. Dashes are the proper usage. PLEASE USE DASHES.
(by the way, i enjoy being dramatic)
the pipe? How about the “^”? It’s the character when you hit “shift 6”. What is that thing used for and why does it have such a prominent position in the keyboard? I think phone numbers should use the conehead character. 1^800^588^2300 It kinda looks like a profile shot of a flip phone that’s half way open. call me^