When was the most recent time you used a printed Yellow Pages to look up a business?

[Nye Bevan]

27 votes, 0 passes | Time left: Unlimited
	Within the past 3 months
	13 (48%)
	3-6 months ago
	2 (7%)
	6-12 months ago
	0 (0%)
	1-5 years ago
	2 (7%)
	5-10 years ago
	7 (26%)
	More than 10 years ago
	3 (11%)
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[bigwillq]

1. 3-6 months ago (nt)

[yuiyoshida]

2. I seriously can not remember

the last time one was delivered to our door. Restaurant menu's yes... yellow pages.. or white pages, not so much. I have an old one around but its sadly out of date.

[dilby]

3. It's never used anymore.

Back before internet enabled cell phones it was used by people to look up computer repair companies but that was it.

[pscot]

4. Small town

We still use the phone book occasionally.

[unrepentant progress]

5. About four months ago

But that's only because I was staying in a motel while some repairs were done on my pad, and I needed to call a taxi but didn't want to pay the extra $6 for another day of (extremely crappy) WiFi.

[daleanime]

6. What?

no option for the last week? Or days?





I must be really old school

[Travis_0004]

7. Never

Im 30, and have had tbe internet since I was 15, so I dont know if Ive ever used the yellow pages.

[JeffHead]

8. The printed phone book is rapidly becoming a huge waste of paper.

The last time I looked up something in the phone book was when I was too lazy too go out to the garage to get my cell phone.

[dembotoz]

9. today

[madamesilverspurs]

10. Old habits die hard.

There's been a phone book next to the phone since my childhood in the 1950s. Although I've gotten used to looking things up on the internetz, sometimes it's just more familiar to go to the yellow pages. That's going to change, though; the newest edition was delivered just a couple of days ago, and the print is so tiny that even my magnifying glass doesn't help. Gone, too, are the days when a phone book would provide booster seating for a toddler. . .

[onehandle]

11. What's 'printed?' nt

[RoverSuswade]

12. Yesterday.

I had to find the number of a local hotel.

[Brother Buzz]

13. Our Yellow Pages is on life support

We received the newest one a week or two ago and I was flabbergasted at how anemic it has become. It covers an area with a population of about 500,000, and it had a whopping FIVE paid ads for restaurants! FIVE! Used to be, there would have been twenty, thirty pages of ads.


I can't see it being published much longer because businesses have spoken: nobody uses it anymore.

[SheilaT]

14. I've used it within the last week.

[TransitJohn]

15. The late 1990s

Wish there were some way to stop them dumping that shit on my porch.

[Nye Bevan]

17. They should be "opt-in" only.

Several lazy-ass people in my neighborhood just leave them to sit outside and slowly rot.

[Zorra]

16. The Yellow Pages here have so many ads, I can't find ever find what I'm looking for.

Fortunately, we also have an all in one white pages that encompasses several small towns, and it's great.

[Jenoch]

18. There seems to be a blurring of the lines between

the Yellow Pages and the White Pages. In my small hometown, they were combined into one skinny telephone book. In a large metro area, I know I have not used either since at least 2011 when we remodled and the chest that held the Yellow and White pages went away. I think I may have used the Yellow Pages maybe five years ago, the white pages many years before that. I remembee using the phone book a lot in my hometown. I still have my hometown phone book from my youth and every once in a while it gets pulled out for nostolgia.

[lpbk2713]

19. I usually use Google Maps

I type in the category, like restaurant, or Walgreen's, or school and then I zoom in.

[subterranean]

20. Yesterday. We had a power outage.

I had no Internet connection because of the power outage, so I pulled out the phone book to look up the number for the power company. But I can't remember the last time I used it before that.

[Mnemosyne]

21. The print is now so small I cannot read it anymore. nt

[hobbit709]

27. That's it, they should supply a magnifying glass with each copy.

[NBachers]

22. I had an old, old copy of yellow pages in my desk- it was one of my best resources.

Someone took it upon themselves to clean out my desk, and decided we don't need these old yellow pages any more. They threw them out, after I expressly told them to keep 'em.

I'll never be able to replace them. It was from back when yellow pages were actually valid.

[Tsiyu]

23. I'm a member of a rural phone co-op

so yeah, I use our local book and sometimes the other counties' books if I can get them.

Google can be worthless sometimes.

[Ron Obvious]

24. I can't recall...

But probably 5-10 years ago, so that's how I voted.

It goes straight into the bin these days like all junk mail.

[mnhtnbb]

26. I used it on Monday.

[ileus]

28. real paper yellow pages???

[AngryAmish]

29. When I took up lawn surveillance.

Time to get that onion on my belt.

[TBF]

30. I use Google to find what I need -

I didn't know they still made the Yellow Pages (I also haven't had a landline for a few years ... )

[madokie]

31. Even with my strongest reading glasses

the print is too small for me to read.
When I need a phone number of a business I go to the computer, works every time too

[Iggo]

32. I chose "more than 10 years ago"...

...because there was no option for "more than 20 years ago" or "more than 30 years ago."

[Tommy_Carcetti]

33. Every once in a while. Not a whole lot, but not never, either.

Google obviously gets you more results, but it can be a little overwhelming at times.

The good thing about the Yellow Pages is that it is finite for your area. So it will list the businesses in your area, once, and you have a set list to go through if you want a job done.

Whereas Google will often list the same business multiple times, or list places outside your area, or just turns you off by seemingingly infinite results.

So once in a blue moon, I will turn to the Yellow Pages if there is a specific job I want, and I need candidates in my area to go through. I don't know if I use it enough to justify its existence, however.

[CTyankee]

34. Yesterday! Because I couldn't remember the name of the company and I wasn't upstairs at

my computer. I found the general listings and then easily found the name of the company.