In the wonderful world of texting, why do people still leave voicemails? For the one leaving the voicemail you must wait for the automated person to get through the to do list. "I'm sorry the number you have dialed is unavaible, please wait for the tone. Press pound if you want more options. Press 1 if you want to leave a voicemail." And that annoying naggy voice continues until you are finally relieved by the BEEP. Time to leave the message you have been waiting to leave all along, but you have spent the past minute impatiently listening, just trying to get to this point, that you have forgotten what you wanted to say.
Now for the one who must retrieve the voicemail, the hassles are much the same. Again you are taken through a list of options from the annoying automated person until you finally get to hear the voicemail. A voicemail that has been building in hype, not because it is anything exciting, but rather because of all the time spent waiting. Drum roll please...
And what is on the other end of that voicemail in most cases - a suggestion that person A should call person B so they can either talk for real or meet up in person. So again I ask: in the wonderful world of texting, why leave a voicemail when the same message can be sent, delivered, received, and responded to in the same time it would take to simply leave your voice recording? Yeah not making too much sense now.
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