WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT WHATSAPP FOR BUSINESS.

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT WHATSAPP FOR BUSINESS.

1) To download WhatsApp for Business, you have to goto Google Play Store. The icon is the normal WhatsApp logo with a B in it. 

2) It is not available for iOS users yet.

3) If you are trying to use the same number you use on the normal WhatsApp for WhatsApp for Business, please take note from this point. 

4) You can sync both apps and all your contacts from the normal app will go on WhatsApp for Business. However, you won't be able to access the normal app anymore if you use the same phone number. 

5) Syncing moves your messages and contacts to WhatsApp for Business.

6) On WhatsApp for Business, once you set your business name, it can't be changed.

7) Once you sync messages, you won't be able to access old and starred messages IF YOU DON'T BACK UP. So make sure you back up before syncing if you intend to use the same phone number. 

8) And if you don't sync in the beginning when you are prompted to, the warning message says you will never be able to do that.

9) WhatsApp for Business has a business setting feature. This has location of business using google map, website, phone number, email address, office hours etc

10) WhatsApp for Business has the label feature. With this, you can easy label new orders, paying customers, pending payments, paid and complete orders. You can also create your own labels. 

11) It has messaging tools. You can set automated messages to be sent to your customers when you are not available. These messaging comes in three categories: Away message, Greeting message and Quick reply. But for them to receive it, your phone must have internet connection. Think of it as an auto responder. 

12) It also has statistics feature. You can see analytics for messages sent, messages received, messages read and messages delivered. 

13) WhatsApp for Business comes with status privacy. 

14) So initially I didn't back up before moving to WhatsApp for Business. On getting there, I realised that my starred and old messages didn't move as well. So, I went back to the old one and verified my number again and my messages were intact. So my WhatsApp for Business is on now with a different number on the same device. The apps work independently on one device as long as they are different numbers.

HOW WILL ALL THESE HELP YOUR BUSINESS?

1) Your business can finally have a 'WhatsApp App' with cool features that will be useful for your business.

2) You have a dedicated house for all your old and new customers.

3) Your normal WhatsApp can now be for family and friends strictly. 

4) With the labels, it is easy to track those you need to follow up for payments, delivery, or those you need to sell to in the next month (this is assuming that they have finished the one they bought from you). So you don't have to wait till they come back to you. Calculate how long your product can last. Track when a customer bought and then send them friendly and not sale-sy reminder messages possibly with a discount. 

5) With the analytics, you can see how many people are reading your messages.

6) The business details cuts out the questions: Where is your office?, can I have your email address? What's your website URL? 

7) This is perfect for customer care.  This is an opportunity to give your audience a good experience and let them have good things to say from relating with your you and your business. 

8) The messaging tools are good for times when you are not there. It gives assurance to the customer that they will be attended to soon. 

9) Since everyone on your WhatsApp for Business 

HOW TO BACK UP YOUR CHATS ON THE NORMAL WHATSAPP APP. 

1) Click on the three dots at the top right of your screen. 

2) Click on settings 

3) Click on chats 

4) Click on chat backup

5) Click on the green button that says 'Backup'.

What's your thought? Is this something you can use?

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Wow!! How To Get Airtel Whooping Data Of 2GB For N200 And 10GB For N500 (Confirmed)

There is nothing more cool than enjoying huge data at cheaper rate. You can now enjoy whooping data of 2GB for just N100 and 10GB For just N500. That sounds stupid right?

You will be needing to Port your SIM Card from one Network to Airtel, But i recommend you use MTN Registered sim when carrying out this simple Trick. In This article I will be showing Tips and procedure to take in other to port from MTN to Airtel which after i will show you simple step to be taken in other to enjoy this data offer.

REQUIREMENTS

• MTN Registered SimCard (You need to port it to Airtel)
• A valid ID Card (Student ID Card, Voter’s card, National id or Driver license)
• Your Time Is Need As Well.

 

How To Port From Another Line To Airtel Network

• Locate Any Airtel Office around you with above requirements.
• Tell Them you will love to Port Your Existed Sim (MTN) To Airtel
• You will be Asked to fill out a Form. (Follow Customer Care Procedures)
• Now You will receive an SMS From Airtel On The MTN SIM Telling you (You Wish To Port your line)
• Reboot Your Smartphone when you noticed that the MTN Network has disappeared.
• You will be guided to input your newly in ported Airtel SIM Card.
• Switch Off Your phone and just insert the newly in ported Airtel SIM
• You will then get a confirmation message from Airtel that your sim has been ported.

Make sure you follow my exact procedure and steps below in other to enjoy the whooping 2GB For N100 and 10GB For N500. Don’t panic the steps is easy. The data powers all you Apps, you don’t need any VPN To tweak before it works. Just Accumulate and enjoy!

How To Get 2GB and 10GB For N200 and N500 Respectively

• Recharge Your Line Through Your Bank Account or Zoto Recharge

NOTE: Do not Recharge your Line with any Card PIN Or else you will not be given the 2GB Data For N100.

• After Recharge your line with Zoto or through bank, You will receive an SMS from Airtel saying you have been rewarded with 2GB free data.
• To Check your Data Balance Dial *223# (Data is valid for 30days)

How To Get 10GB For N500 On Airtel Sim Card

• Following the above steps – Of Recharging N100 you receive 2GB Data
• Recharge another N100 Making N200 You receive 4GB Data
• So Recharge the Sum Of N100 Up To N500 and you receive 10GB For just N500

NOTE: The more you recharge your line using Zoto or through bank the more you accumulate more data. This is to say you can enjoy 20GB For Just N1000.

• At the same time know that You can’t accumulate more than 50GB per month. ( Any given data has 30days Validity period)

You will enjoy All this data Only if you Recharge through Bank or Zoto App but don’t forget. Do Not Recharge Using PINs, Mean while All your Recharged Airtime will still be Intact for you.

Benefit and Features Of Using Ported Airtel SIM Card

• You get the best of rates for voice and data services.
• You begin to leverage Airtel’s wide range of innovative and unparalleled products and services.
• You have the benefit of being served by a top global brand with best-in-class network quality, amazing data speeds and a differentiated customer service experience.
• You enjoy unmatched benefits when you use your line in 20 countries and counting.
• You enjoy whooping data bonus at the lowest rate you could never have expect from any network operators in Nigeria.

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Whatsapp To Stop Working On These Platforms After 31St December

WhatsApp will stop support for a number of platforms after December 31, 2017. The messaging app will drop support for ‘BlackBerry OS’, ‘BlackBerry 10’, ‘Windows Phone 8.0’ and older platforms from December 31, 2017.

WhatsApp says in a blog post that users on these particular platforms will not be able to create new accounts, nor re-verify existing accounts once the company ends support.

WhatsApp had earlier announced it will stop support for many of these older platforms. End of support does not mean a user will lose access to their WhatsApp account.

WhatsApp says users can continue using the app on their phone, but should not expect any future security updates or new features.

While Windows 8 will be axed down once 2018 begins; WhatsApp will continue support for Windows 8.1 version and higher devices, even though Microsoft itself has admitted that Windows Mobile is dead.

To recall, WhatsApp had extended support for both platforms in June this year. At the time, WhatsApp had also revealed that the app will stop working for phones running Nokia S40 will be stopped from December 31, 2018.

The app will stop working on phones running Android 2.3.7 and older (Gingerbread) will be stopped from February 1, 2020. The messaging app became unavailable on Nokia phones running Symbian S60, from June 30, 2017.

In BlackBerry’s case, the company has itself confirmed it will no longer be manufacturing or launching new smartphones, and the BlackBerry 10 and BlackBerry OS have been abandoned.

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Facebook Adds Face Recognition Feature Which Notify Users When They Are Spotted

In one of my previous post, I mentioned that Facebook was working on some Face Recognition Technology but we weren’t so sure what they actually planned to do with it then. Now Facebook has just announced a new optional tool which will help Facebook users find out when they appear in someone else’s photos.

You will notice a new Face Recognition Option which can you can either enable or disable. The whole new Facebook Face Recognition Technology is all controlled by just one button. Once enabled, Facebook will notify you whenever you are spotted in a picture you are not tagged in. It also serves as a security measure whenever someone tries to use your picture as profile picture.

Whenever Facebook detects a picture where you appear in but not tagged, you will be given three options. You can either tag yourself in the picture, reach out to the person who posted the picture or just ignore and leave yourself untagged.

The new Facebook’s Face Recognition feature has already started rolling out across all regions except Canada and Europe where Facebook doesn’t offer the Face Recognition Technology.

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Check Out GloUnfairAdvantage In Pictures

GloUnfairAdvantage is the new deal in town introduced by Globacom to reward their users, both new and old. The aim of this offer is to make data as avoidable as possible, therefore reducing the prices of the data to such an outrageous and ridiculously cheap price.

This is an end of year bonanza don’t miss out this opportunity grab and enjoy it while it last.

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9mobile Is Up For Sale – How To Bid And Buy

9mobile is currently up for sale after the initial saga that led them into changing names from Etisalat to 9mobile. The scramble to acquire 9mobile, Nigeria’s fourth largest network operator, has advanced to the next stage.

10 bidders are left out of the 16 who expressed interest in the purchase. And the highest bidder will acquire 9mobile.

Here is a List of The 10 bidders of 9mobile

1. Globacom Nigeria Limited, Nigeria’s second largest network operator
2. Airtel Nigeria
3. Dangote Group’s telecoms business unit
4. Alheri Engineering Limited
5. Smile Telecoms Holdings
6. Centricus Capital and Africell
7. Abraaj Capital (Based in Dubai)
8. Teleology Holdings Limited
9. The Carlyle Group
10. Africa Capital Alliance (ACA)

The 10 firms above have been pre-qualified to submit their financial bids for the acquisition of 9mobile, this will be the final process through which a winner with the highest bid submitted for 9mobile, will emerge.

9mobile, formerly Etisalat Nigeria, was put on the block early this year after it defaulted on a $1.2 billion loan from a consortium of 13 Nigerian banks. Etisalat Group the mother company in Abu Dhabi backed out leaving its Nigeria arm of business to its own fate, to survive on a new name.

The question is, who do you think should acquire 9mobile among the 10 bidders?

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Glo Introduces New Data Plan: 2GB For N500, 4GB For N1000, 180GB For N20,000 & Others (See Here)

Globacom with it’s self acclaimed “Grand Masters Of Data” are on it again as they have added new set of data plan for heavy download Internet users.

This new data plan features a 180GB data at the rate of N20,000 which is very suitable for firms, cyber cafe and other organisations that requires heavy data.

LIST OF THE NEW GLO DATA PLAN

2GB FOR N500.

4GB FOR N1000.

9.5GB FOR N2000.

24GB FOR N4000.

30GB FOR N5000.

55GB FOR N8000.

75GB FOR N10,000.

180GB FOR 20,000.

HOW TO GET THIS DATA PLANS

Just Dial *777# and follow the prompt .

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Google Still Tracks You Even With Your Location Services Off

Google has been fingered in the secret act of collecting locational information about smartphone users behind their back even when their internet is off.

Smartphones with no sim, no location service on or even that which has just be reset to its factory mode still keeps tracks of you and sends information to Google.

It’s been proven that Google has been collecting Android phones’ locations data even when location services are turned off, a a revelation made by an investigation that Google tracks you.

Quartz, an online media publication observed that android smartphones mutually works hand in hand with others thereby collecting the addresses of a nearby mobile phone masts and sends them back to Google.

The data collected has no bound that even if the service location (GPS) were turned off on the phones, no installed or pre-installed apps, or no SIM card in the phone. It collects data regardless of all these and send them to Google and Google tracks you wherever you go.

 The result is that Google, the unit of Alphabet behind Android, has access to data about individuals’ locations and their movements that go far beyond a reasonable consumer expectation of privacy, wrote Quartz reporter Keith Collins.

Also, a Google spokesperson told Quartz that the cell tower addresses were included in information sent to the system Google uses to manage push notifications and messages on Android phones for the past 11 months. They were never used or stored and the company is taking steps to end the practice.

It’s no longer a secret that Google tracks you with your phone’s location at every instance in time, many of the apps we use on a regular bases wouldn’t work as well without the device location services turned on.

Also, we the end users also have the right to tell Google through your Android phone to remove your location history from your Google Maps Timeline and stop keeping screenshots of your old searches if you’re so concerned about your privacy.

Google did not immediately respond to a request for comment on this.

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Facebook To Open Nigerian Hub Next Year

Facebook will open a “community hub space” in Nigeria next year to encourage software developers and technology entrepreneurs, and become the latest technology giant to pursue a training programme in fast-growing Africa.

The United States-based social media company said the centre would host an “incubator programme” to help develop technology start-ups, while it would also train 50,000 Nigerians in digital skills.

Africa’s rapid population growth, falling data costs and heavy adoption of mobile phones rather than PCs is attracting technology companies looking to attract more users.

Facebook did not provide details of the period over which its planned training would take place in Nigeria, which is Africa’s most populous country with 180 million inhabitants, according to Reuters.

 We understand the important role Facebook plays here in Nigeria with developers and start-ups and are interested in helping these communities, Emeka Afigbo, its regional head of platform partnership said in a statement on Wednesday.

Facebook said the training, aimed at software developers, entrepreneurs and students, would be offered in cities, including Abuja, Port Harcourt, Calabar and Kaduna.

Last year, Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg, visited technology companies in Lagos and his charitable foundation provided $24m to Andela, which trains developers.

Google’s chief executive in a July visit to Lagos said the company aimed to train 10 million people across the continent in online skills over the next five years. He also said it hoped to train 100,000 software developers in Nigeria, Kenya and South Africa.

Although Africa may not offer as much opportunity to add consumers as China or India, because large wealth gaps mean that many people in places like Nigeria have little disposable income, Facebook said more than 22 million people already use its social media website every month in Nigeria.

Widespread poverty means mobile adoption tends to favour basic phone models. That, combined with poor telecommunications infrastructure, can mean slow Internet speeds and less Internet surfing.

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See How To Write Colored Text On Facebook

Hello Readers Today I’ll Be Sharing This Great Trick On How to write Color text on Facebook But Note: This Works Only On FACEBOOK APP it doesn’t Work On Browser E.g OPERA MINI or UC BROWSER Hope thats Clear Lets Go There…..

Color Code:

<+fg=b0ffd700> golden
<+fg=b0000000> black
<+fg=b0ff7f00> orange
<+fg=b0ffff00> yellow
<+fg=b0ff00ff> light pink
<+fg=b0ff007f> dark pink
<+fg=b0ff0000> redish pink
<+fg=b0800000> brown
<+fg=b0ffc0cb> light purple
<+fg=b06f00ff> dark blue
<+fg=b0c0c0c0> grey
<+fg=80ffffff> sky blue
<+fg=b000ffff> light blue
<+fg=b0bf00ff> purple
<+fg=b08f00ff> dark purple
<+fg=b0808000> mehandi green
<+fg=b0ba55d3> light purple
<+fg=b0f000f0> majenta
<+fg=b00000ff> blue
<+fg=b0b08080> steel grey
<+fg=b0000080> movve
<+fg=b0964b00> light brown
<+fg=f0f00f0f> red
<+fg=b000ff00> green

”fg” for font color & ”bg” for background color (Fg
can be removed by ”bg” to change the back
ground color)

<+b> can be used to broaden the font…….

Example:
<+b><+fg=b000ff00><+bg=f0f00f0f> A1000LAFF.COM ( [bg=red]FRESHVIBESBLOG.COM[/bg] )

<+b><+fg=f0f00f0f>A1000LAFF.COM

(FRESHVIBESBLOG.COM )

Note:
Before using every code …remove
”+” from every where

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How You Can Spot A Fake Person Online And How To Avoid Them

Social media is an excellent way to meet new people and create virtual friendships. Sometimes this ends up with a physical meeting and then the relationship grows closer. It is a wonderful thing and some people can find their soul-mate there. For people with certain issues which would benefit from crowd-funding, social media brings more people into play. So, what is the problem here?

Fake People

We have all seen the postings from people who use a username different from their actual name. These names are not always representations of what the user believes in and do not typically lead to a real name. This is disappointing if you truly want to become friends with them. On the other hand, what if they are real and a fine match? How do you get through to them with conversation?

That part is easy and simple. All you do is engage them in a chat. From there, you might find that you and the other user have compatibility for friendship. At this point, they may reveal their real name. Once again, how do you know that it is, indeed their real name? It may not be. There are an overwhelming number of people out there on dating websites and elsewhere who pose to be something and someone they are not. In fact, this practice is so pervasive that it has its own name – catfishing.

What does getting catfished mean? It means that you have been taken in by someone who is not what or whom they say they are. An obvious example of catfishing is fake profiles on dating sites. But it can also be snakes out to scam you for money, hackers looking for personal information or simply people with psychological disorders who find relief in role playing – such as men with sexuality issues posing as women.

Real People

While the social media fake people are involved with creating the illusion, real people have to learn how to spot them. First of all, if anything seems fishy just by instinct; that could be a red flag alone. Honestly you are looking for erratic posts and low friend counts with few pictures and great boasts such as being models or high level professionals. A quantification of money and power may be the definitive of male posts as well as female.

As mentioned earlier, gender confusion in social media is common and so are power plays. It is the forbidden yet alluring arena for the deviation some people are attracted to. Real and honest people should find all the suggestive information from professional sources to better understand how to spot fakes.

Often, by searching through the same username on other sites, you might see more about what that user is doing on the internet. You may be able to come up with a great deal of information leading up to their full identity. Though this process may take some time and creativity, it is completely worth it for the result. After some time, you will become a pro at this much needed task

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5 Things You Can Do On Whatsapp We Bet You Haven’t Taken Note Of

Whatsapp is a universally used messaging app and has continued to improve on its functionality by introducing features.

Photo: Android Authority.

The most recent it added was an ‘Unsend’ (Delete for everyone) feature that lets you recall messages you wish not to send on second thought.

But the instant messenger packs a number of features that most likely go unused because the user has not taken out time to explore.

Here are five features Whatsapp has to make your messaging experience richer.

Star feature

In your chat messages, you can star messages which helps you easily find a message when you need to. To star a message, just hold down the message and tap the star icon on the top screen. You can then get back the message in the app’s main menu anytime you wish.

Pinning feature

This is especially useful if you have a long list of chat messages. Pinning a particular chat like you would do a tweet would take that chat message up for easy re-visiting. And if you want to let go pinning, unpinning is as easy as holding down the chat and locating the ‘Unpin’ button at the top bar.

Mark as Unread

Where you have read a message but for some reason don’t have time to reply the person, you can mark the message as ‘Unread’ by holding down the chat , going to the three dotted lines at the top right, and selecting ‘’Mark as unread’’. A green circle will appear beside the particular chat as a reminder.

Using your phone assistants
For those who don’t like typing, you could employ the services of your virtual assistants – Siri, Google Assistant and Alexa to type the message for you.

For example, by uttering the command ‘’Ok Google’’, followed by the name of the person you want to message and the actual contents of the message.

Custom notifications

If you’re expecting an important WhatsApp message from someone, set a custom notification for them by opening the chat, tapping their name at the top and hitting Custom Notifications. Cool right?

Bonus: You can avoid the blue ticks and ‘Last seen’ features by going into Settings > Account > Privacy > Read Receipts. However, bear in mind that, by doing so, you’ll lose the ability to see when your own sent messages have been read.

Also, another clever way of reading your messages without triggering the blue ticks, is by enabling Airplane mode before opening your messages. – just remember to close the app before switching airplane mode off again.

Source: Pulse

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Finally, You Can Now Unsend WhatsApp Messages…

How many times have you fired off a WhatsApp message only to be hit by that sudden, terrifying thought – ‘I really shouldn’t have sent that’. Well at last there’s a solution.

After months of development WhatsApp have started rolling out the Delete for Everyone feature, which allows you to recall messages after you’ve sent them. This applies to text messages, gifs, video, pictures… pretty much anything you can send on WhatsApp, however it must be done within seven minutes of sending the message.

How to recall messages on WhatsApp The much anticipated feature is easy to use. Simply highlight the message you wish you didn’t send, select Delete from the menu and then hit Delete for Eveyone. It’s only available to certain users at the moment and only on the latest version of WhatsApp, so head over to the App Store and download all those updates you’ve been continually putting off.

WhatsApp say the feature will be useful if your message ‘contains a mistake’, but we all know the new feature will really have three functions:

1. Damage control when you accidentally post a message to the group chat slagging someone off.

2. Letting you backtrack from a risky message to someone you’re flirting with.

3. The last line of defence when you accidentally send a message about last weekend’s illicit behaviour to your mother.

However, the people you are messaging can still see the message before you delete it (WhatsApp can’t delete things from people’s brains, after all), and even if you manage to recall a message before the other person returns to their phone, they will still be able to see ‘This message was deleted’.

WhatsApp will also let you know if the recall wasn’t successful, just so you know if you need to send a grovelling apology message or not.

– Culled from Metro UK

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7 Important Social Media Breaking News Writing Skills

Most people are today using social media to help pass news updates. This is attributed to the high number of people using various social media platforms. According to 2015 statistics, 70% of Nigerian population are said to be on various social media platforms.

Do people always ready your social media updates on breaking news? Social media writing is known to be a new art for and it is important for one to master it in order to get readers pay attention to social media updates across all the platforms. This guide will provide you with killer tips in writing social media breaking news that will ensure they are easily noticed and ensures that your contents go viral.

1. Ensure you Abide by the Social Networking Rules

Are you tweeting into thin air or losing followers just because you are not following the social media networking rules? Though social media writing seems to be like your personal soapbox, there are five things you need to consider in order to build audience and ensure you are known in the industry.

2. Try Developing a Social Media Strategy

Your social media accounts are up and running and you are ready to send your first updates and tweets. However, you need to ask yourself if you have any social media strategy. In case you are thinking that your strategy is to just start writing tweets of the latest Nigerian breaking news today, you can consider this, in every 2-3 days a total of one billion tweets are being sent. Without having a proper social media strategy, there are chances you might be talking to yourself instead of connecting with the readers.

3. Ensure you Dig In order to strengthen Your Social Media Writing Skills

The social media will present media pros with a new idea and opportunity that will help find story sources, ideas, quotes and much more. The digging of these golden nuggets will take your skills of writing breaking news on social media to a completely new level. You will be crippling your updates and tweets by ignoring this basic research. It is also advisable that you start tapping into the pool of content in order to catapult yourself when compared to those people who just post in order to be heard.

4. Ensure you learn the Social Media Writing tricks for Twitter

It seems very easy and simple to write something that can engage your readers in 140 characters or even less. You might start wondering if writing a novel can be easier especially if you are trying to condense a 170 character tweet.

News writing for twitter is considered to be the fast paces and ultimate social media writing form. It is important that you always produce tweets which will stand out or you can easily get lost in the timelines of your followers.

5. Ensure you give proper attribution

Do you have the original content that you want to share via the different social media outlets? Part of mastering your social media writing skills should be being in a position to contribute your online sources well. Attribution will not only protect you but it can also be a great way to help build a network with your sources and trust.

6. Try Going beyond the Social Media Writing

Are you trying to change the world using your social media breaking new writing skills? Most of the people who refer to themselves as social media experts are always known to ignore the work “social”. They usually hop to the microphone without knowing the power that social media has. Social media breaking news writing should never be one sided.

7. Consider Using Social Media Writing to Help Build your Brand

It is important that you always use social media writing skills to help build your brand whether it is on Google+, Twitter of Facebook. Most of the quick thinking social media breaking news writers will always be writing about what is taking place and the social media will help strengthen the brand with each status update or tweet.

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5 Ways You Answer Phone Call In Public That Makes You Look Local

Have you ever watched someone making a phone call but then you can’t help yourself staring at them and wondering where they come from?

If it turns out to be someone you probably just met, no doubt, they would definitely have left a bad first impression about them self.

And I bet you know how hard it is trying to correct a wrong “first impression”.

But have you for a second tried watching yourself while you’re on the phone?

Lol.. Sounds crazy right?

Yeah…

Just as it may sound crazy, it’s even funny and to a point embarrassing; if only you could see yourself with a third eye.

Here’re 5 Ways You’ve Probably Been Making Phone Calls That Makes You Look Local

1. Demonstrating on the phone

Do you remember the last time you saw someone demonstrating while making a phone call?

You may already be smiling right now if you can relate.

I’ve seen folks do this… the last time I saw this was last week and the guy on the phone was like;

“Yes, If you enter the house, go upstairs. By the left (with his hands pointing to the right like the person could see him) you’ll see 3 doors. The first one leads to the bathroom, the second leads to the visitor’s room. Enter the second room, by your left, you should see a tall wardrobe (still demonstrating how tall the wardrobe is).”

Lol… That’s crazy.

Demonstrating while on a phone call is like spraying perfume just before you take a passport photograph. It’s definitely of no use.

And if someone sees you doing that, they’d sure look you like you’re local.

2. Talking too loud when there’s an earphone on your ear

Shout out to all those who can’t make a phone call without using earphones. You sure rock!

While most of them use earphones with some swagger, a lot of them pretty much get their self deaf with it.

Very much the same way they behave (talking too loud) when they have an earphone fit into their ear and probably listening to one of Wizkid’s Hit songs.

3. Placing your phone on your ear while it’s charging

I’ll want to believe you don’t already do this cos it’s “wrng.”

Yeah! You heard me right. It’s so wrong that I forgot to spell “Wrong” right.

There’s no techki explanation for this aside from the fact that it could shock your ears like how the Flash got struck by lightning. Of course, that’s techki enough.

But there’re health consequences of doing this.

I stumbled on this post of this Nigerian living in China who’s phone exploded when he decided to charge it and make a call at the same time.

And after going through comments on post speaking on the dangers of making calls while charging phones, I discovered that a lot of consumers are asking if there’s a particular ear one should use to answer phone calls

Well, there sure is. Paul Samuel – FitnessDoctor got it covered in this article – Here’s Why You Should Use Only This Ear To Answer Phone Calls

You should check it out.

I’ll advise you unplug your phone from charging just before you receive or make a phone call,

If you don’t, you won’t only look local, but you stand a chance looking like a dead meat.

4. Holding your phone with the back speaker on your ear.

Now, this is something you see guys and chicks with Nokia torch doing.

Couple of times, I’ve asked folks why they do this but they keep giving me the same answer – “the phone speaker is placed at the back of the phone”

To a point, that reason almost made sense until I asked why don’t they make calls with the back of their Infinix phone on their ear.

Lol… Am still waiting for an answer though.

Probably you can give me one in the comments below. Come to think of it; Infinx places its phone speakers at the back their phones and if you ask me, those speakers are loud enough to get your call done.

5. Putting calls on the Loudspeaker while in public places

While I may consider this to some sort of show off, I also think it’s local.

About a month ago, I was in need of cash so I went to the bank to make a withdrawal.

On getting there, I met a queue and just behind the queue was a crowd also waiting to use the ATM machine.

You know how it is when you meet a queue and you’re trying to find out who’s last on the queue? Well, I didn’t even bother asking – it was no use.

After standing for close to 7 minutes, I was beginning to notice the crowd’s frustration at the regressive movement of the queue when a phone call come through.

Initially, I thought it was my phone ringing but on seeing the lady close to me raising her phones to her ears to answer a phone call, I realized it wasn’t my phone ringing and we had the same ringtone.

Honestly, I was starting to like her cos I felt we already had something in common (having the same ringtone is just okay to start a conversation)

So I felt until… she blew it.

With all that noise at the ATM stand outside the bank, she turned on Loudspeaker to pick her call. And from the sounding of her voice, I’m guessing it was her boyfriend.

The call lasted over 10 minutes (just before I got angry and decided to cut in lines). From the conversations I managed to eavesdrop, she was sounding so innocent, speaking with a crazy intonated feminine voice which I believe she was forming.

At some point, she was like… “Dear, I can’t hear you clearly, I think the call is breaking”

And I was like…

“What’s this girl up to, even a deaf man knows you can’t hear someone clear when you have the loudspeaker turned on in a noisy place.”

Something told me she was trying to hit on me but deep down, my soul wasn’t ready to give it a chance.

And here’s where this story ends, I made use of the ATM machine before she did and she ended up looking less romantic and more local to me.

How do you answer phone calls, are you guilty of any of these, what other ways do people make calls that look weird to you? Share your thoughts.

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5 Phone Design That Will Leave You Speechless

1) The Chamelephone
This was one amazing device that behave more like a chameleon. The phone was designed to have a body that changes its appearance to match the texture of the surface it is placed on. The entry was designed Hiroyuki Tabuchi who stated that the concept of the mobile phone’s was for its body to mimic the environment its placed on.

2) Amoeba Phone
This entry was designed by Kwak Yeon, the device which surface is touchscreen-operated was made to fit perfectly to the user’s face. The Amoeba like shaped phone sure has a beautiful design. See image below.

3) The KAORA (Tile) Phone
This entry was designed by Wataru Igarushi , it was designed as a more user-friendly phones. The phone comes with customizable configuration that the user can change depending on what functions you need the phone to perform. Changes can the made to suit the user of the device.

4) The Fold-a-Phone
The is another amazing device worth mentioning, the Fold-a-Phone came with a design (super-thin material) that allows it to be folded down to a small size allowing the users to carry it in his or her pocket or purse. The concept came from Hanna Sahlen and Sachiko Munakata.

5) The F-Circle Phone
This device came with a completely different shape. Designer, by Yuji Ito, The F-Circle Phone, was combined with a rectangular keypad attack to a round screen. According to Yuji Ito, The F-Circle Phone is “timeless.

These are some of the most weirdest device ever made. What do you think, can you buy any of them?

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