Before widespread adoption of the Internet, Facebook, Twitter or even email, using your telephone was the only form of social networking that involved dedicated technology of any sort. The only way to reach out beyond your immediate physical location to contact someone was to pick up your phone handset, spin that rotary dial and ring someone up.
Even today, the immediacy and intimacy of voice still far outshines email, instant messaging and text messaging for true interpersonal communication. Knowing this, why is voice hardly considered for digital applications and not integrated into all web sites and other digital media as a standard practice?
In my opinion, too many of the tools we have today (such as voicemail) [...]