I was reading a profile of Paul Feig today when I came across this line:
Feig’s voice-mail message says, “Please leave your name and number and I’ll, um, y’know, call you back.”
Reading it, I realized: that message is about to go extinct.
With cell phones now, I don’t need callers to leave their number. I’ll have a missed call from them when I go to check my voice mail. Soon enough, as more people move away from landlines, the “leave your name and number” message will be as dead as, well…. an actual machine that you keep in your office to record messages.