Standing in the way of control!

The other day a friend and I had a discussion about voicemail messages. What the discussion basically centered on was the fact that it is such a shlep setting it up and then even more time must be wasted in trying to retrieve it. Ok, so both of us are lazy guys who don’t understand why you have to  listen or for that matter talk to a machine when you might as well just get the gist of the whole message via text. It cuts out all that unnecessary awkwardness of actually having to talk to a stranger and or wife. This may seem not to quite have that personal touch but so be it.

In an article from Tech Crunch this very topic was discussed. And though they express different views on the issue we all agree that with email and texting the voice mail message is dying phenomenon. As so rightly highlighted is the comment most of us have made that goes “sorry, didn’t listen to my messages”  or the one many of us are guilty of “I didn’t receive it” or the blunt one “saw you called but didn’t know it was urgent”.

So, with even my mum being able to write proper text messages and operate the internet, the end is nigh for the voice mail message.

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