by Boonsri Dickinson, Information Week BYTE
According to USA Today, people aren’t leaving as many voice mails as they used to. USA Today used data from Vonage, an Internet phone company, and found that the number of voice mails is down 8% in July from a year ago. The article draws the conclusion that texting and chat apps are replacing voice mails and that voice mail soon will be dead. I can’t help but agree. If I want to leave a message, I just text it. Chances are you probably do the same. Just look at the top apps in the social networking category in Apple’s iTunes store: WhatsApp Messenger, TextPlus, Tinychat, the Facebook chat app, Kik messenger, Skype, Tango Video Calls, and Voxer. Has America become too impatient to leave and listen to voice mails? I think so.
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