There’s no more need for voicemail. It once served a purpose — to communicate short messages that can be checked at your convenience and acted upon. But today text messages and email have obsoleted the voicemail! I like how Penelope Trunk says it in her blog:
“It will come as news to most people over thirty that most people under thirty do not leave voice mail messages. Think about it: Voice mail takes a long time to retrieve and it’s almost never earth-shattering, so it’s not worth the time it requires.”
Receiving voicemail has become my pet peeve. Two of my friends are the only ones who leave me messages now — and the message is “It’s me, call me back.” And I need to call voicemail for THAT?!?! Actually I do receive voicemails from my mom and dad but I don’t mind those because they can’t use text messages at all.
The call history functions as my paging system. If you called me my phone will tell me I missed your call. I will assume if you called me you still want to speak to me. So there’s no need for the “It’s me, call me back” message!
