My zoomer friends are always sending me voice notes. Wtf is wrong with the youth. Text only please, ty.
It moves the burden into the receiver
Instead of having to type out a message, you can just blab
Now the receiver has the burden on having to actively listen to the message, maybe finding a situation where it’s possible and take the time to listen to it in the speed of the sender instead of being able to read it quickly
For real. A voice note means I’ll wait for half a day before I’ll have a chance to listen without annoying someone, with a 50% chance of me accidentally clicking on the notification and forgetting it’s there. It’s the worst of both worlds: not as instant as a call and not as easy as text.
TBH some people are terrible about responding to messages or emails (at least when they’re messaging/emailing me). I do hate phone calls, but they do somewhat force people to pay attention until you actually finish talking about whatever topic is at hand - and if they don’t, it’s much more immediately obvious that they aren’t interested.
Ok but messages and emails are so you can get to it when you have time.
An unscheduled call is demanding someone’s time without asking. Its rude.
Yeah, but the issue is that some people don’t use their (and my) time well. e.g. they outright stop responding for no apparent reason and weeks later pretend that nothing happened, or drag the conversation out by leaving out many of the important points of information in their replies, being unclear or misunderstanding what you wrote to them etc.
And calls don’t need to be unscheduled.
