Personally, I don’t like them, because of the asymmetry of effort in sending vs receiving, and that you can’t tell how serious it is before listening to it.
Voice messages?
I hate those from the bottom of my heart. It’s one of the worst ways to convey information.
TLDR: god awful sound quality and amount of background noise with it mostly being just verbal diarrhea.
Of course there are exceptions.
Same as why I’ve always hated voicemails. Just send me a text.
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I think if someone sends me a voice message I should be allowed to call the police on them.
Never used them ever.
I use AI transcriptions and read them. I feel if the person can’t put effort into writing, they shouldn’t expect me to put effort into listening.
I sometimes send them when I don’t have a better way of communicating (e.g. during a quick stop in the car) but I tend to apologise because I know how much of a ballache they are.
I occasionally still get messages on my mobile provider’s default voicemail, and honestly by far the biggest issue is the fact that it very slowly reads out the sender’s full number and the exact time of the message before even starting. Without that it would still be bad, but probably 10 times less bad.
I think they’re actually a really easy-to-use and convenient way of someone sending me a message that I’ll never listen to.
It depends on the circumstances. I don’t know why for the life of me, hands-free car systems haven’t adopted a way to play and aend them. If I get one on WhatsApp, it just says “xyz sent you a voice message”
I only use them for close friends anyway. Sometimes it’s easier. My girlfriend and I usually send them to each other when one of us is walking.
On Snapchat they’re absolutely woeful, the screen can go off when it’s playing, and if they send a new message, it restarts itself.
They’re for absolute numpties. I knew someone who started using them all the time because it’s hip or something, never listened to them and got him to stop. It takes more effort than typing them and suggests you’re in love with your own voice or speak too much
I do genuinely think that using them is a sign of low intelligence or at least herd following, because you go out of your way to deliberately unlearn/avoid using the device the way it was intended just to bend to the will of big tech tdlling you what to do.
Also i just see speaking randomly into my phone in public as rude to others
