I’m a very late adopter of the voice message. For that reason, I still consider them fairly new, despite also recognising that for years I actively hated them. When they first became a thing I was still in an office job, and the surreptitious text conversation at my desk would be stunted by ‘that’ friend who drops a voice note, which I could neither listen or respond to without unintentionally bringing my colleagues into one big group chat. I’d say until recently I could count on one hand the number of VM’ers I knew, including one friend who’d moved abroad would routinely leave what can only be considered short-form podcasts in which he’d give several updates, ask multiple questions and (to my absolute fury) suggest times and dates for things that could only be revisited by listening to the whole damn monologue all over again.
Voice memos are everything
In lieu of a VM, I left this comment but will regard the lack of VM as such a lost opportunity. Also scared of losing my voice in a box. TY.