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80 y/o man loses dead wife's voicemail message because of upgrade
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johnjohn320
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Not to sound unsympathetic, but...c'mon...it's a voicemail message. If it meant so much to him, he should have backed it up somehow.
thecoolnessrune
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My phone plan deletes any phone messages in voice mail every month.
I guess maybe they mean the actual recording they made in the system? If that's the case, and he wanted it that bad, he should ahve just recorded it. It's silly to rely on a company to save something that to most people don't even matter.
On another point, if I had to call him, I think it would be kinda creepy still getting ehr voice on the voicemail. Usually you're leaving a message for those who will actually listen to it later..
I guess maybe they mean the actual recording they made in the system? If that's the case, and he wanted it that bad, he should ahve just recorded it. It's silly to rely on a company to save something that to most people don't even matter.
On another point, if I had to call him, I think it would be kinda creepy still getting ehr voice on the voicemail. Usually you're leaving a message for those who will actually listen to it later..
Calling your own number to listen to you dead wife's voice is just not right.
I bet his kids are glad its gone, otherwise they would've made a CD for him or something in the first place.
I bet his kids are glad its gone, otherwise they would've made a CD for him or something in the first place.
Sad story but I really fail to see any fault on Verizon's part.
I do hope for his sake they manage to find a copy of it, but I still can't fault them if they don't.
Viper GTS
I do hope for his sake they manage to find a copy of it, but I still can't fault them if they don't.
Viper GTS
Its sad because he called it everyday and claimed to "rely on it". Back it up then if it's so imprtant. . . yeesh.
I saw this story earlier. I'm not very sympathetic. His only recording of her voice was on Verizon's system? He never owned a camcorder or voice recorder?
BTW it is not at all realistic to expect him to know how to accomplish a backup of a phone message. Hell he probably had no idea it was possible for verizon to lose it in the first place.
If anything I would have to wonder why his kids hadn't done something about it. Surely his kids, or grandkids could have worked something out for him (if they knew about it).
Blaming him is nearly as asinine as blaming Verizon.
Viper GTS
If anything I would have to wonder why his kids hadn't done something about it. Surely his kids, or grandkids could have worked something out for him (if they knew about it).
Blaming him is nearly as asinine as blaming Verizon.
Viper GTS
zinfamous
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all you people faulting him for not backing up or having some other modern piece of technology to record voices...
...does it not strike you as impressive enough for an 80 year old man to have digital voice mail? C'mon...what elderly man is going to head out and buy a new mini DV or digital voice recorder? My grandmother (83) can barely figure out how to dial a proper phone number sometimes.
...does it not strike you as impressive enough for an 80 year old man to have digital voice mail? C'mon...what elderly man is going to head out and buy a new mini DV or digital voice recorder? My grandmother (83) can barely figure out how to dial a proper phone number sometimes.
SoulAssassin
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Yeah, he was in his 60's when they started becoming common. Still too old to teach new tricks, especially old-school, non-technologically-inclined folks like that.
My Grandma is 82 and still can't change her clocks and screws up the TV remote a lot.
He might be old but it didnt say he was stupid. It was a voicemail which was on a system he knew NOTHING about and could not actually touch in any fashion. If it was so valued when he got the letter telling him it would go away he would have asked "Hey how the F--K do I get this message onto something I can actually hold".
It sucks its gone but ignorance is never an excuse. If he had photos on a website I bet he would ask for prints. . .
As long as verizon sent out notices about the changes and any messages left on the system could be lost then I can't find any fault with verizon.
Jeff7
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- Jan 4, 2001
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Exactly. People that age didn't grow up with stuff that is erased constantly with the flick of a switch. Once you had something, you had it. He probably assumed that HIS messages wouldn't just vanish one day, especially if Verizon is making an upgrade.
They can, if they're willing to devote a lot of time to it. Most people just want things to work, they don't want to have to spend their remaining years learning how to use all the new gadgets. It's an unfortunate thing about a great deal of our of our technology: it isn't really user-friendly or truly intuitive. Maybe give it another 20 years, when touch-screen technology can be merged with OLED screens, cheaply (with some nice impact-resistant plastic in the way, for violence-prone individuals). If you can operate a screen by touch there is more potential to make it intuitive to people who are used to touching things, not moving a tiny arrow with a mouse, and right-clicking to get context menus.
Squisher
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About six months after my mom's death both my sister and I suggested to my dad to put a new outgoing message on his answering machine. It was just too upsetting calling him, getting the machine, and hearing her voice. I swapped out the tape and told him he could listen to it anytime he wanted.
Capt Caveman
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