This week has been particularly hectic. It's been a lot of going back and forth, running around, different meetings, classes — and calls.

But what I realized was that the culture of the voicemail is dormant.

Remember how cool it used to be to record a song on your flip phone for voicemail? Remember designing the best recitation for a greeting and recording it to near perfection? I sat and thought to myself about how Voicemail used to be a platform for both entertainment and creative expression. I wonder why we don't use it now.

Generally, when I'm sent to voicemail nowadays, I'll run into a robotic-voiced lady telling me what to do after the beep and be providing me with the exact digits of the phone number I'd dialed. Why did the culture of the voicemail disappear?

Is it less pragmatic?

One runs the risk of listening to six butt-dialed voicemails of people speaking indirectly in the distance. One also run the risk of rambling messages of people and a few texts about the same information anyway. Thus, one begins to ask: is this less pragmatic?

True, it can be time-consuming. It can also be less accessible in comparison to texting when speaking about specific details. A lot of people that are opposed to leaving and listening to voicemails will say that personal voicemails must not have been too important if they haven't texted or sent facebook messages.

Hating the sound of your own voice?

According to Rachel Feltman of The Washington Post, when we hear other people talking we hear it through the vibrations that are sent to the inner ear and eardrum. This is the same way that we listen to our own voices, however, here we have another source of vibration — that's right our vocal chords and airways are also trembling. Naturally, your body is better at carrying deeper tones than air is. The combination of both external and internal sound adheres a much darker and richer sound. Thus, when you listen to a recording of your voice, it ends up sounding less Scarlett Johansson and more Iago from "Alladin" according to the article.

So?

Although the uses for voicemail have been deemed both annoying and less pragmatic, they can represent a huge part in formalities as far as work goes. In the office, giving and designing the best voicemails is even coached.

Even though voicemail has near disappeared for personal use, some have been interested in still using and leaving voicemail despite its unpopularity. Once in a while, you'll run into a creatively put voicemail and thus begs the question of why it disappeared quite so fast.