Answering machine messages and voicemail. The last connection to a loved one

[Miller]

Oh, also, this.

[Anaamika]

@ddsun

Actually, I have found Facebook the most painful reminder. I still have a passed friend on my friend list. I see her face. I see her last message to me on chat. I could delete it, but I can’t.

Gmail. My friends name is still in contacts list.

[Musicat]

@Wesley_Clark

One of them got played on the radio, it was a grandmother calling her grandkid and singing a birthday song to him. I can see why people would keep those.

I have a 78RPM acetate disk of my grandmother reading a birthday message and story to me. She must have used one of those record-your-own booths ca. 1950.

[Omar_Little]

@aceplace57

It’s comforting to hear a familiar voice. An option most of us didn’t have until the past decade or so.

Home video recorders came out in the 80’s. Cassette recorders came out in the 70’s. We have several recordings of my grand parents and other family members that died over 25 years ago.

[Push_You_Down]

@aceplace57

My dad’s voice still answers the phone at my mom’s house. He died several years. It’s a wonderful reminder of what he sounded like.

I have a donor that I call and her late husband’s voice is still the answering machine message. It’s a cute sing-songy message. I can see why she keeps it.