If it's a short message, text me.
If it's longer, call me.
What is with this fucking 5-6 "voicenote" fucking bullshit?
If your going to send 6 voicenotes back to back requiring me to reply via a voicenote, repeated several times, that's a fucking phonecall, just CALL ME!
It's red flag behavior, and often passive aggressive.
There's rarely a good reason to use voice notes. People should be doing voice to text in 99.9% of cases where they do just voice.
I've noticed the trend spreading quite rapidly - many voicenotes back and forth instead of a call.
It's not always in the context of an argument either, sometimes it's a quick catch-up or something like that.
Are phonecalls just not in vogue or something?
Calls are realtime, voice notes you can listen to, ponder and reply later.
Also, there are no interruptions, because each one is, of course, in the form of a monologue.
Don't hate it until you try it. My primary mode of digital communication with some friends is almost 100% like this - but it depends on the person, I don't want to do this with the other 98%
And me, personally, I never take calls. Hell, I don't even have notitications enabled so I would miss them anyway. Calls are intrusive to me, if wifi (Signal only) is on, I'm doing something on the phone, and being suddenly interrupted won't make me happy.
tldr: different things work with different people. If you don't want this person to send voice notes, just tell them so.
I think it's a shitty way to do things. It stretchs a conversation that should take 5 mins over the course of an hour.
I'd be willing to concede that it has merit in the context of back and forth messages between work collegues in a group chat or something like that, but for casual conversation and catch up's, it's unatural and jarring to have this arrhythmia, stop start stop start.
It's a matter of personal preference. For me it works - with select people.
It's perfectly fine if for you it doesn't. Just another option on the menu!
