Comments on: I’m Calling It: Voicemail Is Dead

By: beckie66

beckie66 — Fri, 28 May 2010 02:07:36 +0000

As a parent, I disagree. Doctor, dentist, school, etc…all important calls that I am not always available to take. Not everyone uses email or texting to communicate.

By: ghaff

ghaff — Thu, 27 May 2010 16:34:21 +0000

Google Voice helps a bit. The transcription is pretty imperfect but it’s usually good enough to get the gist of the message and often the number if there is one. And, at any rate, the email tells me that there is a message which is useful by itself. That said, I get very few voice messages.

By: Kemper

Kemper — Thu, 27 May 2010 15:21:41 +0000

From the obits:

Voicemail expired peacefully today after a long illness. It was proceeded by its parents, Answering Machine and Message Service. It is survived by it’s distant cousin, Text Message.

By: captainnoble

captainnoble — Thu, 27 May 2010 15:17:23 +0000

I can’t wait. I hate checking my voicemail at work and, in fact, I’m notorious for waiting two weeks or so before I do get caught up on them.

By: thisisablogyo

thisisablogyo — Thu, 27 May 2010 15:11:09 +0000

I was just talking about this a week ago, about how annoying it is having to access voicemail, and PAY! to access it.

By: Michael A. Burstein

Michael A. Burstein — Thu, 27 May 2010 15:04:23 +0000

There was a recent article pointing out that many people barely use their cell phones for phone calls nowadays. Texting is much more prevalent.

By: doubleang

doubleang — Thu, 27 May 2010 14:45:02 +0000

I still use it frequently for work, but you’re right; when it comes to my cell, I would prefer people not leave messages. My dad occassionally calls, leaving one of those: “Hey, this is dad. give me a call. bye.”, and then my damn phone has a blinky little green light and a voicemail indicator in the status bar for weeks. Obviously he is unaware of the miracle that is instant caller ID

I think I’ll leave my voicemail functioning, just in case someone really important calls and wants to give me a million dollars or something, but I may change my voicemail to something stating that if they leave a message, it better be for something freaking important/

By: richardsrussell

richardsrussell — Thu, 27 May 2010 14:34:58 +0000

I’m holding out for the telepathy app.

By: gum0nshoe

gum0nshoe — Thu, 27 May 2010 14:22:42 +0000

Maybe when my parent’s generation dies off, I don’t think they know how to operate a keyboard on a phone…