voice mail is for people who are not me

[jlh]

I've gotten to the point where I pretty much hate the telephone. I only talk to a few people on it regularly, all people who are not local. I used to talk on the phone all the time. And the oddest thing is, most of the people I talk to on the phone are male friends! (This is particularly true now that Mother has gone deaf, so we communicate via email.)

I also hate voice mail—hate it to the extent that I stopped checking it at some point and so Cingular or AT&T or whatever just turned the thing off, and I can't say as I care that much. If you want me, send me a text or an email, please. Anyway, apparently I'm not the only one hating on voice mail—there's a whole piece about it at the NYTimes, which I saw via Jezebel, and the blogger there hates voice mail, too.

At least my anxieties are trendy. I have to agree with that one guy who talks about how there are so many ways to reach anyone—I'd rather just cut off one of them.

Comments

[jlh.livejournal.com]

There is one—I think it's mentioned in the NYT article—but I think it's still pricey at this point. But if the trend continues, maybe it will get cheaper! Because I totally agree!

[amyamy.livejournal.com]

The Times article mentions that Google's getting into the VM transcription service, so it'll be free eventually...

[mr-cutiepants.livejournal.com]

Looks like it's about to get free!

I found this today: https://www.google.com/voice/about