You lost me with the first line: "Leaving someone a voicemail message on someone’s cell phone in 2011 is not only misguided, it’s selfish." If you don't want t

You lost me with the first line: "Leaving someone a voicemail message on someone’s cell phone in 2011 is not only misguided, it’s selfish." If you don't want to get voicemail, don't offer it as an option to your callers. I get really bent out of shape by people who expect that everyone trying to reach them by <insert communication medium here> will follow their personal, and unpublished, rules. We all use <insert communication medium here> in different ways, and most of the mediums are designed to be flexible, thus appealing to more users. Don't attribute malice, or selfishness, to other users of the medium who are using it in the way it was designed. If you don't want people to leave a VM, say so. If you don't listen to your VMs, say so. If you don't want people to leave a long VM, say so.