Varun Bhansali, 32, a digital marketer in San Jose, Calif. rarely leaves voicemails or makes phone calls except for work. Instead, Bhansali uses various mobile communication apps, including a chatting app, Discord, to communicate with friends. (Dai Sugano/Bay Area News Group/TNS)
Don't wait for the beep: Voicemail is going the way of the dinosaurs.
Although phone-message technology advanced steadily from cassette recorders attached to landlines to services offered by phone companies to cloud-based message storage for mobile devices, it's now running up against a changing American society that places increasing value on saving every possible moment of time.
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