You must be referring to one of those strange old-fashioned "land-line" telephones (because otherwise, your phone records the missed call and the number it came from). I suspect a lot of people assume that either caller ID on a landline, or the cell phone, will record the missed call, and therefore a lack of message means "nothing urgent but was looking to chat".
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