If you can see from your "missed calls" that someone tried to call you, but that person did not leave a voicemail message, is the proper etiquette to call the person back or not? Either way is fine with me - I just want to know what the unwritten rule is. Thanks.

I would say, not. If they wanted a call-back, they would have left a message. Then again, if it was your mother...

Yeah, I'd say no unless it was your mother or your spouse.

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If it someone you want to talk to then sure; if it someone you don't want to talk to then, sweet!
Either way you aren't under any social obligation to call them back.

But then I'm a social idiot, so don't go by what I think.

Often when people don't leave a voice mail it is because they needed to actually talk to the person at that moment. So there is really no obligation to call.

Well, my husband doesn't leave voicemail messages on cell phones, or on people's home phones when he knows that they have caller ID. He seems to think that his phone number on the missed calls list is a message to call back.

He did something kind of crappy to his brother last year. His mom and I kept at him to apologize. He called him once. His brother didn't answer his cell, and my husband didn't leave a voicemail. Apparently, that's the same thing as calling and apologizing in his mind. If he weren't physically coordinated, I'd swear that he has assburger's syndrome.

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My pet peeve is mistakenly dialing a wrong number then having some old guy call me back and start yelling at me for calling him.