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Welcome to Friday.  Fridays are for fun.  It is spring and which means every day is fun.

I made a startling discovery a few months back.  I discovered that the device I use for email, twitter, text messages, mobile blogging and for listening to others who pitch products to me while I am in my car can be used to make phone calls.

Phone calls are like verbal text messages, emails or tweets.  They are slower and sometimes they end up being a recorded message that someone listens to later. There are times when a phone call saves time or at least it would if it didn't take the person being called so long to get over the shock of hearing my voice.

Once I discovered that I can use my blackberry for phone calls I started experimenting and looking for ways to integrate voice into my business.  As I experimented I discovered that half of my clients don't like phone calls. A few of my clients only have cell phones and a couple use iPhones.  The folks with the iphones don't seem to use them for calls at all and rumor has it that they don't work that way.

Last month my phone plan changed. Even though I have unlimited voice minutes as they are called, the "fave five" feature was added.  I can enroll five people and talk to them as much as I want to for free. Well is isn't really free, I still have to pay my phone bill . . the one that includes unlimited minutes to anyone in the US.

It is a kind of nifty feature, there is a circle on my phone where five faces should be, with icons that kind of look like silhouettes of faces. The feature made me aware of the fact that I don't have five faves. I can't think of anyone that I could put in the faves so that I could have a face to click on and call.

There are people that I would like to talk to more often but some have iPhones and they don't talk at all and others like my two beautiful, smart but ungrateful children  don't have unlimited minutes and would not appreciate having me call them even though they really are my faves.

It is a bit depressing but I am trying to put it past me.  Yesterday I was trying to think of one person that I could put in my faves just so I could have a face in my phone.  I chose my brother and shortly after I did my phone accidentally dialed him a few times so I took his face out of it. He doesn't know I called, he isn't the kind of person who answers the phone.

My fave five are blank faces and I guess they will remain that way.  I use a lot of text messages and some months I go over my "bundle" and have to pay a dime for each additional message.  If I had a fave five for text messages I wouldn't have any trouble putting faces in the little fave five circle. I could easily find ten faves.  I guess the cell phone plans are for kids or something because if they were for adults I am sure the fave five would be for text messages, not voice. 

I can't help but wonder if I am the only one on the planet who does not have five faves or if there are others like me. Could you find five people to talk to on the phone?  If you did find five people what would you talk about and why? If I made you a fave would you answer when I called?