Did a reader just ask how to look up a family member’s phone number who is not in her local phone book? Go online! Don’t use lack of technical competence as an excuse. This is 2018!

Q: My name and number has been left out of the phone book for the second time, and I would like for it to be in there. What number can I call to straighten that out? J.B. A: In Fayetteville, the l… ...

By moving the world online and making it easier for people to socially share way too much information, it’s no longer easy to find a friend’s phone number. Or at least an accurate one.

Phone numbers are killing the username, killing the password, and making it easier than ever to go wild online. So guard it with your life, because it is your life. But Who Are You?

You might not need one but they are still being sent to homes all over Western New York. We asked people in Buffalo when they last used a phone book and what they do when they get one in the mail.