I don’t get the whole fear of voicemails. It’s not like they’re listening in when you play it back. And how do y’all cope with businesses that don’t text (hint: almost all of them)?
Businesses show up on my caller ID. If I’m expecting a call from them I’ll answer.
Otherwise, if it’s really so important, they can text, email me, or send me snail mail. If they don’t, obviously they don’t care that much and it’s not my job to make myself contactable by randos over the phone.
I get 10+ spam calls a day and half of them leave voicemails. No fucking way am I going to waste my valuable free time dealing with that. You wanna cut through the noise? Find another way.
The real problem is that Caller ID can be spoofed to be literally any number by anyone for any reason. So you have zero guarantee you’re talking to Chase or some ਕੁੱਤੀ ਦਾ ਬੱਚਾ in India
For me it’s not fear, just aversion (like the pic says, ew). For one, vocal information takes more energy and concentration for me to process than reading. Plus it’s slower, just in general data rate without getting into how vocal speech often has overhead like “Hi, how’s it going? It’s me. Just calling to say that…” and a bunch of stuff in between too. You don’t get that with text. Brief and to the point. Usually.
Then there’s the fact that I have to dial in to get a voice message instead of one button click (or check my watch), which isn’t as bad these days with it going straight to the one message. But before when you had to dial in, go through a menu, wait for it to tell you the whole time, date, and phone number (one-number-at-a-time) before getting to the message… yeah, no. Or I can just read your text in 2-5 seconds, thanks.
Businesses mostly email me, or message through their applications. I haven’t listened to a voicemail in a decade at least. Can’t explain my dislike of them, just like my aversion to most calls. I guess the latter is because it demands I answer and I don’t know if I’m in the mood, and it may interrupt my activities, whatever they are, losing my focus.
I don’t get the whole fear of voicemails. It’s not like they’re listening in when you play it back. And how do y’all cope with businesses that don’t text (hint: almost all of them)?
Businesses show up on my caller ID. If I’m expecting a call from them I’ll answer.
Otherwise, if it’s really so important, they can text, email me, or send me snail mail. If they don’t, obviously they don’t care that much and it’s not my job to make myself contactable by randos over the phone.
I get 10+ spam calls a day and half of them leave voicemails. No fucking way am I going to waste my valuable free time dealing with that. You wanna cut through the noise? Find another way.
What country do you live in that has caller ID for cell phones?
Uh almost all of them?
The real problem is that Caller ID can be spoofed to be literally any number by anyone for any reason. So you have zero guarantee you’re talking to Chase or some ਕੁੱਤੀ ਦਾ ਬੱਚਾ in India
Literally never seen it.
For me it’s not fear, just aversion (like the pic says, ew). For one, vocal information takes more energy and concentration for me to process than reading. Plus it’s slower, just in general data rate without getting into how vocal speech often has overhead like “Hi, how’s it going? It’s me. Just calling to say that…” and a bunch of stuff in between too. You don’t get that with text. Brief and to the point. Usually.
Then there’s the fact that I have to dial in to get a voice message instead of one button click (or check my watch), which isn’t as bad these days with it going straight to the one message. But before when you had to dial in, go through a menu, wait for it to tell you the whole time, date, and phone number (one-number-at-a-time) before getting to the message… yeah, no. Or I can just read your text in 2-5 seconds, thanks.
Businesses mostly email me, or message through their applications. I haven’t listened to a voicemail in a decade at least. Can’t explain my dislike of them, just like my aversion to most calls. I guess the latter is because it demands I answer and I don’t know if I’m in the mood, and it may interrupt my activities, whatever they are, losing my focus.