I cannot express to you how much I absolutely despise voice messages

*latest fad

Voice messages aren’t really a fad are they? They’ve been around forever
- they definitely are very recent and coincide with the replacement of text messages with rich messaging apps like whatsapp/signal/imessage, hence their use by zoomers as you say

I'll listen to my partners voice messages all day, every day. I love them, its the cutest stupidest thing and it makes me warm inside.

Anyone else, fuck off, die forever, i do not want to hear your voice.

millennial here never ever ever leave me a voicemail i will not listen to it fuck you

Fr me too
- ill take a voice message or text any day if i have to navigate the goddamn voicemail bullshit im done my cheapass phone carrier makes me call in to retrieve them because i dont buy their locked in phones

Zoomer here: never used voicemail, never use voice messages, just text

Rip a big fart into a voice message and send it back. But yeah they suck big time just type the message. Only voice messages i ever receive or send are when extremely drunk and can't type which is fair but those are always jargon and noise anyway

There are instances in which they are useful, some of which people have brought up in this thread, but in most cases they’re inferior in nearly every way to a text or even a phone call.

Seriously! I'd love to talk to you, but I don't particularly want to listen to you talking at me.

It's the worst of both worlds, I can't respond in any way or ask for clarification or say "hey can you speak up it's really loud where you are", to a voice message like I could on a call, but nor can I read through it quickly, or look back over what was said like a text.

Imagine having everything from pagers to video chat to VR at your disposal and choosing what is essentially digital voicemail as your preferred means of communication. Not as a fallback when you aren't both able to talk, but as the first choice. I can't

This is exactly how I feel about it. Like at least give me a call first before I have to listen to you rambling on for 3 minutes about something that really could've been a short text.

boomers who refuse to read and demand that you call them and say the words they refuse to read out loud

synthesis: millennials who refuse to answer phone calls and only use text

Dear all software developers on the planet: Please implement a feature where all ellipses are forcibly replaced by a single period.
If I get one more email from an older work colleague replying to me saying "That's great..." or "Give me a call..." or "Let's talk about that..." I will fucking lose it.
- Yes! Why do they do that?! It makes no sense
- anyone who habitually uses ellipses that I am forced to deal with for work gets placed on the "treat like a dumb asshole" list because they always belong there
Its all in service of the "This Meeting Could be a Phone Call > Could be an Email > Could be a Text Message > Could be in the trash" pipeline.
- this meeting could be a psychic message sent into the ether that I will definitely receive for sure
My mom leaving a serious, borderline urgent tone voicemail: Call me
Me calling back: Is everything ok?
My mom’s response: Oh I just wanted to hear your voice
- Mom: "Are you working today?"
  Me: "i go in tonight"
  Mom: "Call me tomorrow"
  Now i am panicking because she often does that with bad news. Usually though she doesn't have anything to actually say, just wanting to catch up. But why does it always have to seem like an emergency?
truly the best way to do things

I love her dearly, but i once asked my best friend to tell me about her new boyfriend. She sent me 10 minutes of snapchat videos. I couldn't even hear his name because she was washing dishes when she said it. She then went on about 3 tangents before i gave up and told her to text me :name, his job, how they met, first date.

Girl, i do not have time to watch a snapchat video essay. I need my phone to watch Youtube video essays.

Lmao I can’t imagine having to sit through 10 minutes of Snapchat videos
- She uses Snapchat as a video dairy and sends her friends 3+ minute ramblings every day. Again, i love her dearly, but i never watch them because you can just keep tapping through them and not notice any difference. She just repeats the same thing over and over, so i jist respond to the first video and she is happy. She knows that no one is listening to the whole rant, she's just saying what she is thinking out loud and letting us now what her current mood is basically.

It's quite popular on WeChat, and it's nice to hear my family's voices a continent apart without having to juggle schedules and time zones for a call.

Couldn't agree more. If you want to chat absolute shit into a microphone make a fucking podcast so I can ignore that as well and send me a message for fuck sake.

I love listening to 3 minutes of uuuuhhs and uuummmms to hear something that could have been written as a 5 word sentence

"oh wait is this working" 5 seconds of silence and tapping "oh yeah it's fine I don't know what that was. Anyway..."
- wind starts blowing directly into the microphone

People are all like "I don't like reading" well fuck you I do, send me goddamn paragraphs so I finally have someone to send paragraphs back to

if you're lucky i'll try to decipher the shitty transcript, otherwise you can send me an email i won't read for a week.

I just don't want to remotely communicate on a regular basis with anyone I personally know. I'm too autistic to miss any context clues. I only want to use these tools to arrange actual hangouts. Or, I would if I knew anyone with good covid habits

It's completely different using these things to talk to strangers on the internet for me, though. The 90s anonymous internet will live forever in my heart

Ive never done either, you dont pick up im texting you

texts >>>>> voice messages >>>>> calls

Kids these days, leaving so many voice messages around you'd think you're in an immersive sim game.

wtf is a voice message and how is it different from a voice mail

A voicemail is the message you leave after you make a phone call and the other person doesn’t pick up, a voice message is just taking a recording of yourself and sending it to the other person

Really? Honestly I find more voice messages being sent by boomers on whatsapp than anything else.

Haha maybe, this was in response to a zoomer sending me a voice message which is why I called them out. I don’t actually know if voice messages are a zoomer thing though.

So when I upgraded my phone, the new one doesn't have a with-purchase voicemail app. It expects me to use the whole *89 and a password I never set up like it's the 90s again. Naturally I've been dragging my feet and literally went 2 years before just installing an app for that purpose.

I refuse to communicate

Everything I write is just me hitting random buttons and you interpolating it to be an actual message

0% surprised this was posted by a he/him tbh

Death to America

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