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- DangerousP, on 07/08/2009, -11/+38I absolutely hate people who refuse to listen to their voicemail. The whole reason I put up with your stupid message, that annoying lady prompting me about how to send you a page, pony express package or carrier pigeon and all the other ***** that makes it take 20 minutes to leave one is that I have something important to say. That's the whole point of voicemail!
- Yarkz, on 07/09/2009, -3/+24My phone does that too, and it's older than iphones...
- BigBalledOX, on 07/09/2009, -7/+24Don't bother pointing that out, all the iPhone fanboi's will be too busy sucking each other's dicks off to be bothered with little facts like that.
- mrjit, on 07/09/2009, -2/+17Text messaging?
- YouAreDead, on 07/09/2009, -4/+19google voice ftw
- mrjit, on 07/09/2009, -0/+14I specifically say not to leave a voicemail on my voicemail message. My mother is apparently immune to said message and leaves voicemails anyway.
- factsahoy, on 07/09/2009, -0/+13Your complaint is with stupid people, but you foolishly blame the tool through which they deliver their stupidity.
Why don't you just change your outgoing message and tell people not to leave a ***** message if they have nothing to say?
Oh, because that's too obvious. - Zaxcomp, on 07/09/2009, -4/+15I'll catch up a lot quicker by calling you when I see the missed call, than by hearing a monologue and still likely having to call you back.
- hackiavelli, on 07/09/2009, -4/+13Give me a break. There's sure room for improvement but voicemail isn't going away just because a few ADHD types can't be bothered to check it. It's far too useful.
- GalacticRerun, on 07/09/2009, -0/+9My mum was the worst at leaving messages, she'd wait til the voice says to leave a message, then the beep, then she'd sigh and hang up because she doesn't like leaving messages. Like it wasn;t enough of a clue that I hadn't picked up by some lady's voice telling her to leave a message. I think maybe my mum thought it's rude to hang up while this nice lady is speaking.
- factsahoy, on 07/09/2009, -0/+8A name that's totally wrong, by the way. It implies a visual message, which of course it doesn't deliver.
- jazzmann04, on 07/08/2009, -15/+22If only there was a cell phone that let you just listen to just the message itself, and then delete it, or better yet, see the name and delete it right away!
Thanks Apple! - Black6x, on 07/09/2009, -0/+7I hate when I call someone and the default voice mail prompt is a minute long:
"You have reached the voicemail of [name or number]. To page this person press '5' now. [3 second pause] After the tone, please record your message. When you are finished recording, hang-up, or press pound for more options. [2 second pause]."
I know how to leave a ***** message. I don't need instructions. What does paging them do, anyway, and does anyone ever use it? - Spanq, on 07/09/2009, -2/+9I hate having to listen to an instructional guide on how to leave a message after the greeting, but before the beep. And the marking of messages as private and/or urgent is stupid and pointless. When I leave a voicemail for you in an angry tone about how the test results came back positive, it's already clear the message is private and very urgent. There's no need to "mark" the message anything.
- Koushiro, on 07/09/2009, -2/+9What? No! Screw that, I'm keeping my voice mail and there isn't a darn thing you can do about it! Leave a freaking message, you are not in a rush to do anything of any significant importance.
There is no reason that everything needs to be so rediculiously instant in life! :P - factsahoy, on 07/09/2009, -0/+7Yet another tired article that regurgitates the contents of the last one on this topic. And that last one simply cited a few ignorant tools and claimed that they represent the majority.
What they conveniently didn't account for is that *****, delayed, or missed voicemail notification will lead people to delete messages without listening to them. If hours or days go by before I even know I have a voicemail, chances are I already talked to the sender and will delete the message which is now useless.
The iPhone is a great example of this problem. If your phone's on the charger at home and you miss a call, you get one little blip right afterward and then NOTHING. Gee, if I missed the call itself, it stands to reason that I'm going to miss the notification noise seconds later. If you're in the shower, down the hall doing laundry, or whatever, you can miss entire events because the iPhone does not issue periodic audible alerts until you clear them. STUPID. Phones allowed this option in the '90s. WTF? - factsahoy, on 07/09/2009, -1/+7Later, meaning after everyone else enjoyed the event that you deleted the voicemail about.
Brilliant policy. - nogami, on 07/09/2009, -3/+9My voicemail message explicitly says that if you want to get ahold of me quickly, text me. Otherwise leave me a message and I'll get to it ... eventually.
It's easier to prioritize if you know the content, and there are times (in meetings and such) when you can sneak a glance at a text, but it's not appropriate to listen to voicemails. - oo7evan, on 07/08/2009, -22/+28I hate voicemail. Don't leave me a VM saying you called. No *****. That's why I have caller ID.
- NeoTechni, on 07/09/2009, -1/+6"The article isn't written the greatest,"
Neither is your comment. - KawazoeMasahiro, on 07/09/2009, -0/+5What about visual voice mail? If you hate to dig through menus that's the way to go!
- bdbr, on 07/09/2009, -0/+5Its different for personal calls and work calls. At work, people usually aren't calling just to say "hi" or "what's up". They have specific questions, which don't always lend themselves to some tiny snippet of text (and desk phones don't have text anyway). The person on the other end can call back and leave a detailed answer, even if you're not there (or are on the phone). Text is crap for this sort of thing.
- crazyhorse13, on 07/09/2009, -1/+6"Hi, this is <insert name>. Sorry I couldn't pick up. Just so you know, I don't usually listen to my voicemail, so if you really need to get hold of me, you can send me a text, wait for me to call back, or try again later. Thanks."
*cue annoying lady* - yonan32, on 07/09/2009, -0/+5is voicemail big in other parts of the world other than the US? here in Indonesia, if you call someone and reach his voicemail, 99.5% would just hang up. similarly when you have a notice that you got a new voicemail, 99.5% dont bother to check it. here if we cant reach that guy by phone we just SMS him.
- inactive, on 07/09/2009, -1/+5Texts require too much mental effort. Just limit your message to 1 simple pictogram, 3 at most.
- NeoTechni, on 07/09/2009, -2/+6I hate when ***** leave a 5 minute rap clip as their message. They never leave actually good music, or audible clips for that matter.
I long for the calls where they replace the ringing with the Mario theme. It makes me sad when people end up answering their phone.
(I work in a call center) - HillerMylife, on 07/09/2009, -0/+4There are rumors of number portability! That would make me a Voice user in a heartbeat.
- inactive, on 07/09/2009, -1/+5I have to agree - I hate voice mail. Can't get hold of me? Send a text message. Dialing in, putting in my PW and then waiting to go through the menus seems like it takes forever. And if I don't check it, I get a stupid blinking icon on my phone letting me know I have a VM. I just delete the messages and try to tell everyone to just text me instead.
- thomasisa1, on 07/09/2009, -2/+5delete
- Otto, on 07/09/2009, -0/+3Pay extra? What, you still have a land line? Hell, man, get with the times. Nobody has those anymore.
- BalooUrsidae, on 07/09/2009, -0/+3Well, I truly hate people who are stuck in the 19th century and still think the most cumbersome, interruptive and least effective means of communication is still the best way to sent a message quickly in the modern era. Have you considered joining us in the third millennium and sending an email instead? Trying that and waiting a few hours before trying the phone will avoid people automatically assuming you're the kind of attention-whoring douchebag they're trying to avoid by never answering their voicemail to begin with.
- Cybrwolf, on 07/09/2009, -0/+3RuledBySecrecy,
I'm right there with you! I spend most of my time driving. VoiceMails rock, because I can check them without wrecking the car, and killing someone.
All you ***** who text while driving can just drive yourself off of a cliff! - Cybrwolf, on 07/09/2009, -0/+3Because I'm sure as hell not going to try and read/write a text message while driving. You know, because I'm ***** driving!!!!!!
- uknowwhoibe, on 07/09/2009, -0/+3Or a pie chart!
- piieerrrree, on 07/09/2009, -0/+2well, oo7evan, there are a lot of stupid people on the internet. Maybe we should outright ban computers instead.
- RuledBySecrecy, on 07/09/2009, -4/+6Text messaging is the redundancy for me.
I'd rather listen to a person's voice than read their dumb typing. Not to mention the phone company's inane stranglehold over the data itself. Having to pay extra to have a plan or on basis to basis for text is outrageous and grossly unnecessary. - inactive, on 07/09/2009, -2/+4I refuse to pay extra for caller ID. I hate it when people don't leave a voice mail at least telling me they've called. Just say your name, ramble pointlessly for a bit so I know which person with that name it is, not that hard.
- deslock, on 07/09/2009, -0/+2Thanks Apple... for finally getting JazzMann04 out of the stone age and to think he got hip.
I'll one-up you JazzMann...
My google phone automatically directs phone calls from certain people right to my wife (in laws?), it sends a different voice message to my friends, a different one to my business colleages and a "special" voice message to any "unavailable" numbers (i.e. telemarketers can kiss my...).
Oh yeah, and it automatically creates an email transcript of the message and pushes it to me immediately so I don't have to listen to it.
Suck on that for a while fanboy. - MonsterRayn, on 07/09/2009, -0/+2There was a company a few years ago...that if you had their voicemail software (used with Vonage on the computer), they'd listen to your voicemail, and transcribe every word to an email they'd send to wherever you told them. I didn't mind it one bit since no one ever sends me confidential info via voicemail. I wish AT&T offered a similar service. Also, it'd be nice if there was a way to have a message that said..."Go Go Gadget Voicemail!" Beeeeep!
Just keep it simple already. It shouldn't take 3 minutes for someone to leave a message. - skipvt, on 07/09/2009, -2/+4Here let me condense the article for you. Most people (except old people and we all know about them, don't we) are too retarded to use voice mail so we came up with another way to charge you extra money.
- mrjit, on 07/09/2009, -0/+2Paging does just what it says, instead of leaving a voice message it texts a number to the recipients phone.
- BalooUrsidae, on 07/09/2009, -0/+2Allows you to send your phone number as a text message (and sometimes a short message an operator will type and send out). It's a throwback to the numeric and two-way pager days.
- diggdatt, on 07/09/2009, -0/+2i like voicemails, its free unlike texting that and I dont know how to text, plus if someone leaves a voicemail its usually not something mundane like text messages
- TdotFUNK, on 07/09/2009, -1/+3Oh right, so my friend with the blocked number called. I new it was him because of my psychic powers. And everyone that has vm has caller id. And the call still gets to you even if you have no reception. Think about what you are going to say before you say it, dumbass.
- gsbrickner, on 07/10/2009, -0/+2I like voice mail.
If someone who I don't know calls, I let it go to VM. If they don't leave a message, then I don't waste time talking to some telemarketer.
If it is important, they will leave a VM. If not, screw 'em. - plasman, on 07/09/2009, -0/+2as i read this i have an unknown number of voice mails on my phone that i don't want to spend an hour listening to. mostly from my boss and my mother. i cant delete them without at least hearing a little bit of them cause i feel guilty. they spent all that time leaving it so ill at least take a little time...eventually
- hackiavelli, on 07/09/2009, -0/+2Pecking out a text message on a telephone keypad is less efficient than simply saying it.
- deslock, on 07/09/2009, -0/+1Seriously, don't any of you people have cell phones?
Cell phones allow you to set a different ring for each person... need to block someone? Set it block or at least silent. Hell, my cell even shows me a friggin picture of the person calling.
Missed a call? Call log even replaces their numbers with their names so you know who called/when. - BalooUrsidae, on 07/09/2009, -0/+1Thank God, too. Anything to kill Skype and it's special way of harming society by pirating GPL'd code for their proprietary products.
- zoom1928, on 07/09/2009, -0/+1I don't really like the audible alert, but I do like visual ones. The iPhone really needs an LED like the older Motorola phones had. They would flash green normally and then red if you had a call. I could tell at a glance from across the room if I had missed a call.
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