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Could she not leave a message? I have the same setup as someone here mentioning Tasker. I route all calls to voice mail, where I can decide if I need to call

Could she not leave a message? I have the same setup as someone here mentioning Tasker. I route all calls to voice mail, where I can decide if I need to call back. If they are not willing to leave a voice mail with a return number and reason, the call was not that important.

matsemann 4y ago
I have never in my life received or listened to a voice message. To me that's something from 90s movies. Weird how different things can be.
- trebbble 4y ago
  I don't listen to mine—I read them. Built-in feature on my phone, these days. iPhone, but I'd be surprised if Android doesn't have it, too. Quick glance is enough to tell if any of the recent ones were anything other than junk.
- throwaway98797 4y ago
  ignore all unknown numbers iOS transcribe feature makes it easy to read the voicemail and then in the 1/20 case where it’s legit, i act accordingly
- ghaff 4y ago
  For a lot of people, not being reachable by voice is not really an option in the case of emergencies, medical offices, business, etc. I do more texting than leaving voice messages but, for example, my dad essentially will not text or email.
  - matsemann 4y ago
    I guess it's more that no one here ever leaves a message. A medical office for instance would never call to give out that info over phone, instead I would get an email or sms telling me to log in securely to their portal to see test results etc there.
    - ghaff 4y ago
      It's not so much test results. But, for example, just this morning my dentist's office told me that a slot for an appointment I had been waiting for opened up this afternoon. More has switched to texts and portals but there's still a fair bit of calling in my experience in the US.
- jader201 4y ago
  VM is becoming more of a necessity these days due to robocalls. I have any numbers that aren’t on my contacts go straight to VM, and that’s how I get in touch with non-contacts that I really want calling me. In my experience, the signal:noise of unknown calls is about 1:20. VMs, on the other hand, are much higher — about 1:2.
mumblemumble 4y ago
I do the same thing. But I also have a habit of letting the voicemails sit around for days if they're not from someone I know. I'm not going to stop what I'm doing and listen to the voicemail, because, 19 times out of 20, it's just another robocall.
doliveira 4y ago
Wow, no one from any age group ever listens to voice messages anymore either, at least down here in my country
- MiddleEndian 4y ago
  I also don't listen to voice messages, in my 30s, in the US. My phone doesn't even tell me when I get them and I have no plans to change that (except when dealing with financial or legal bullshit).
sonofhans 4y ago
The need was synchronous -- I either got authorized right away, or we moved on to plan B. And yeah, as others have said, even listening to VMs this days is outlier behavior :/

matsemann 4y ago

I have never in my life received or listened to a voice message. To me that's something from 90s movies. Weird how different things can be.

trebbble 4y ago
I don't listen to mine—I read them. Built-in feature on my phone, these days. iPhone, but I'd be surprised if Android doesn't have it, too. Quick glance is enough to tell if any of the recent ones were anything other than junk.
throwaway98797 4y ago
ignore all unknown numbers iOS transcribe feature makes it easy to read the voicemail and then in the 1/20 case where it’s legit, i act accordingly
ghaff 4y ago
For a lot of people, not being reachable by voice is not really an option in the case of emergencies, medical offices, business, etc. I do more texting than leaving voice messages but, for example, my dad essentially will not text or email.
- matsemann 4y ago
  I guess it's more that no one here ever leaves a message. A medical office for instance would never call to give out that info over phone, instead I would get an email or sms telling me to log in securely to their portal to see test results etc there.
  - ghaff 4y ago
    It's not so much test results. But, for example, just this morning my dentist's office told me that a slot for an appointment I had been waiting for opened up this afternoon. More has switched to texts and portals but there's still a fair bit of calling in my experience in the US.
jader201 4y ago
VM is becoming more of a necessity these days due to robocalls. I have any numbers that aren’t on my contacts go straight to VM, and that’s how I get in touch with non-contacts that I really want calling me. In my experience, the signal:noise of unknown calls is about 1:20. VMs, on the other hand, are much higher — about 1:2.

mumblemumble 4y ago

I do the same thing. But I also have a habit of letting the voicemails sit around for days if they're not from someone I know. I'm not going to stop what I'm doing and listen to the voicemail, because, 19 times out of 20, it's just another robocall.

doliveira 4y ago

Wow, no one from any age group ever listens to voice messages anymore either, at least down here in my country

MiddleEndian 4y ago
I also don't listen to voice messages, in my 30s, in the US. My phone doesn't even tell me when I get them and I have no plans to change that (except when dealing with financial or legal bullshit).

sonofhans 4y ago

The need was synchronous -- I either got authorized right away, or we moved on to plan B. And yeah, as others have said, even listening to VMs this days is outlier behavior :/