Need to teach her how to turn off voicemail redirection.
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i have mine turned off from the cell provider. best thing i did.
Until someone sends you a voice to text message. Like fuck that.
I worked for nearly a decade as product support for various voice mail applications, so I feel very strongly about this.
Fuck voice mail.
My little sister's voicemail says something along the lines of , "Hi, I'm either sleeping or playing video games. Leave a message and maybe I'll call back"
It's a double edged sword:
1.) Not all phone lines have text enabled (especially service lines).
2.) One reason you might not answer a call is because you don't recognize it. So if the line in question doesn't have text options then you might miss important calls if you don't check your voicemail.
3.) If you don't take unknown calls and you don't check voicemails then you probably won't answer random text messages either.
At the end of the day more people need to be grown ups and at least have a decent voicemail message and check their voicemails as they come in. It's not an all or nothing discussion, it's a do the minimum discussion. Screen your calls, check your voicemails, call people back who seem legit. It's not rocket science, it's adulthood.
Yup. Sucks to have to remember to take phone off "Do Not Disturb" to get business call backs.
Where I'm from, voicemail is just not used. If a person doesn't pick up, you try again later. Answering machines were not a thing either. Always thought it was weird people used them in movies. I remember maybe leaving one message in my life, never had it myself.
Yeah, where I am from it's primarily used by businesses these days. Most people don't answer phone calls from numbers they don't know so if it's important business then they leave you a voicemail. The thing is that if you don't then check your voicemails you miss important business. It has a lot of other odd impacts as well, I was in a car accident not to long ago and the guy that hit me broke his phone and tried to use mine to call his emergency contacts. As you might have guessed no one answered because they didn't recognize the number and he wasn't able to call anyone for help.
How about no?
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Voice mail still has uses. There are times you need to be able to receive calls from businesses or government entities. Often those entities don't have call centers set up to let their workes send texts. Sometimes the only way you can hear news you need to hear is via a phone call.
Which is kinda funny because they could save money by automating texting for some of the shit they have people call for.
Though on the other hand, if it's a legitimate business, you can stop the call spam easier, at least in places with enforced do not call lists.
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Voice notes on WhatsApp/iMessage is essentially the exact same thing as voicemail but for some reason zoomers are happier with those.
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Voicemail would be fine if you could click on the voice message in a table and so it could skip the time and number
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Damn I'm so curious about the venn diagram overlap between pet who hate calls and people who love video "news" like tiktok. I bet it's near a circle.
I, for one, hate both equally. I want to READ my news, and I don't even care if it comes with static images.
And then people wonder why nobody has friends and prefer talking to an AI
Brilliant. I'm stealing this.
I am hard of hearing. I hate voicemail. And, I hate that I can no longer record voicemail. There has been too many incidences where I can't understand the crucial details in a voicemail.
I prefer voice mail, If it's important enough send it, if you're not a contact and there's no caller ID I'm not picking up, I'm not screening your call I don't want you to know I saw the call.
If you're a contact and I miss you send a text