For your cellphone, home phone or work phone, do you use voicemail? Do you leave messages or just hang up?Do you even know how to access your phone’s messages?
I hate VM. I try not to leave them. I rarely listen to them when ppl leave them for me, I just call back.
I use voicemail on my cellphone, especially since I either don’t always hear my phone ring or I’m driving and can’t answer it. Mostly, I get voicemail messages from my mother since she doesn’t text, like 99% of other people I know do. On the iPhone, retrieving voicemail is very simple. On my home phone, I still have an old-fashioned answering machine, but most of the calls I get on that line are from telemarketers who don’t leave messages.
I have visual voice mail so I don’t have to listen. My sister says hi. Call me. I’ve tried telling her it’s not necessary since I see her number. My husband leaves long blathering messages for people and I’m guessing 95% of the time people don’t listen.
my outgoing vm says I do not listen to vm, so do not leave a message. But when I call others, and their vm says “leave me a message” I usually do.
terribly rude and frustrating imo for those that do ask people to leave messages, but do not listen to them.
I don’t call people back just because they called me. If they don’t want to leave a message but want me to call them they should text or email or something. Which many do. I will often text if someone doesn’t answer. Mostly my mom is the only person who leaves me messages, other than business-type people.
I use my voice mail. I will not call people back just because they called. If they want something from me, then they need to tell me what before I will call them back. That can be in an email, text, or voice mail.
I pay for my phone. It is for my and my immediate family’s convenience, no one else’s. I don’t answer if I don’t want to and I don’t return calls if it wasn’t important enough for the caller to somehow tell me what they wanted.
I really hate the telephone. I text for personal matters and email for professional ones. We rarely use the land line in our home and the last time I dialed *86 to see if I had messages I was told I had 63. I just hung up the phone and have not touched it since. Those matters could not have been that important.
Or maybe they were.
My doctor sent me to the lab for some tests, which I got done toward the end of last week. A few days later, I received a voice mail from the lab, asking me to contact them by phone. I then had to leave a voice mail with them, and finally they called me back and we spoke directly. It turned out that one of my tests got messed up in processing, and I needed to come back to the lab and provide another sample.
I think this is fairly important.
Much as I prefer a written message – text or e-mail – sometimes voice mail is all there is.
Anyone that is important in my life has my cell - I never give my land line to anyone or list it on any forms. We never use the land line so I am betting they were all old solicitation calls. Who has time listen to 63 old messages?
I use voicemail, and listen to the messages. I would be annoyed if I left a message and the recipient didn’t listen to it. That’s the advantage of voicemail. I don’t want to go back to the pre answering machine days where you had to keep calling until the recipient answered the phone.
I didn’t realize until this thread that VM was something people didn’t do any longer. Another way I now feel old and out of touch. @-)
If a VM comes in on my cell - which it rarely does since most people text me - I will listen to that. Sometimes my H will leave a VM on my cell so I don’t to have to call him back - he tells what he needs to on VM. But I never leave VM’s - I text.
Sure that others still use VM.
I do use it for home, cell and work. I do get calls at home from my primary care provider to remind about appointments-I don’t need to get those calls on my cell. We HAVE gotten important calls at home, but we screen our calls with audio caller ID so only answer when we need to. At work, we are a 2-person, PT office so we get a lot of voicemail, and it’s almost always important. Lots of older people who do not have cell phones with which to text or even computers and email. I would get fired if I didn’t listen to them. For my cell, the only calls I get are from people I know, so I will call back even if I don’t get a message.
None of my kids leave messages, then wonder why no on calls back. I had to explain to them that with business, you SHOULD leave message because how else will the person know why you called. But with friends? No messages, ever.
I dislike VM and prefer a txt msg or email. We never listen to VM left on home phone because Vonage sends them to us as an transcribed email. At work, considering all the other immediate options folks have to contact me (cell, txt and email) I detest VM messages. I only return calls to my immediate family if no msg is left.
And a lot of VM’s are garbled and unclear or people are speaking too low to hear them. Give it to me in black and white. And then I will also have a record of it and don’t have to run around looking for paper and pen.
Wait a minute!! You mean I can use my phone for voice calls? I thought it was only for texting and internet. 
^That probably explains why one of my kid’s cell phone VM is always full. They never listen to it or clear it out.
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Really I do not know why they continue to refer to them as cell “phones.”
@1or2Musicians : People no longer want voicemail messages left? What is going on - why the heck not? This feels like a death knell to me …grrr.