Beef was a great show for many reasons. But one was the younger brother’s voicemail greeting which said “don’t be old. Just text me”.
I found that so perfect that I changed mine immediately.
Just watched that episode, you’re bang on. The way in which we’ve changed in communication has been very beneficial for me, although I do like to call once in a while if it’s me instigating it.
Why didn’t they text?
I love that my voice mails get auto transcribed!
But now there’s the people who send you voice messages instead of texting. It’s not quite voicemail. But you still have to listen to it
Voice messages serve a perfectly legitimate purpose when you have a REALLY long explanation, or maybe you’re multitasking and just don’t have the time to write it out.
You can use voice to text but often they’re really terrible.
I love that my voice mails get auto transcribed!
God I had that briefly once like 20 years ago, it was awesome. Then never since. 😞
If it’s someone I know, voice messages are okay (WhatsApp or what have you); if it’s a company, email or through their application is what I expect.
Just let your voicemail box fill up and BOOM, no more voicemails!
Mofo I’ve been trying. 15 years, and I’ve never once checked my voicemail.
When is it going to fill up!!?!
You know you can just call your provider and disable voicemail?
Voicemail was a mistake. I wish more services would let me disable it completely.
Maybe have a super obnoxious one like Archer
Switch providers and then never turn it on. Source : Me
Lazy Take: Let it fill up and then they will be unable to ever leave messages. Never empty them. It only holds like 10 messages.
“I’ll get to it later”
3 weeks later
“Woops”
Me, listening to 30s of “what was I calling about” and other mouth noises: put me out of my misery.
☎️ SCAM LIKELY ☎️
BRB changing my name to “Scam Likely”
My voicemail is a timeless archive of mysteries, never to be explored.
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I don’t even have voicemail because it just fills up with robocall scams. And anyone calling me is in my contacts.
I don’t get the whole fear of voicemails. It’s not like they’re listening in when you play it back. And how do y’all cope with businesses that don’t text (hint: almost all of them)?
Businesses show up on my caller ID. If I’m expecting a call from them I’ll answer.
Otherwise, if it’s really so important, they can text, email me, or send me snail mail. If they don’t, obviously they don’t care that much and it’s not my job to make myself contactable by randos over the phone.
I get 10+ spam calls a day and half of them leave voicemails. No fucking way am I going to waste my valuable free time dealing with that. You wanna cut through the noise? Find another way.
Businesses show up on my caller ID
What country do you live in that has caller ID for cell phones?
Uh almost all of them?
The real problem is that Caller ID can be spoofed to be literally any number by anyone for any reason. So you have zero guarantee you’re talking to Chase or some ਕੁੱਤੀ ਦਾ ਬੱਚਾ in India
Literally never seen it.
For me it’s not fear, just aversion (like the pic says, ew). For one, vocal information takes more energy and concentration for me to process than reading. Plus it’s slower, just in general data rate without getting into how vocal speech often has overhead like “Hi, how’s it going? It’s me. Just calling to say that…” and a bunch of stuff in between too. You don’t get that with text. Brief and to the point. Usually.
Then there’s the fact that I have to dial in to get a voice message instead of one button click (or check my watch), which isn’t as bad these days with it going straight to the one message. But before when you had to dial in, go through a menu, wait for it to tell you the whole time, date, and phone number (one-number-at-a-time) before getting to the message… yeah, no. Or I can just read your text in 2-5 seconds, thanks.
Businesses mostly email me, or message through their applications. I haven’t listened to a voicemail in a decade at least. Can’t explain my dislike of them, just like my aversion to most calls. I guess the latter is because it demands I answer and I don’t know if I’m in the mood, and it may interrupt my activities, whatever they are, losing my focus.
