I don’t want to have to listen to a 5 minute long note.
If what you need to tell me is complicated and will take a while to explain then phone me.
I also hate watching instructional YouTube videos. I learn/absorb more effectively with writing/pictures.
Worst part of video tutorials are that you can’t quickly skim read it to get the 1 bit of info you actually need.
The TL;DR is that they think it’s because the British…
- are more reserved.
- are more conscious of the inconvenience the person receiving a voice note goes through.
- tend to speak one language and have high literacy in that language.
Voice notes are better if you’re a fluent speaker but have poor writing skills or are using a second language.
I only use voice notes to send cutesy messages from the little kids to family.
I have a friend who nearly always sends voice notes instead of messages. She’s dyslexic, so I know it’s easier for her than writing, but it means that I’ll frequently forget about them and take ages to reply. With voice notes I need a quiet place to hear and process them plus extra time, texts are much quicker and easier to process.
Accessibility is indeed a good reason.
I will say that the only time I ever used a voice note was to voice something I couldn’t write, like saying something in a funny voice. Usually only a few seconds long.
In my case it was redoing the YIPPEEEEEE meme 😆.
- are more conscious of the inconvenience the person receiving a voice note goes through.
Yeah, I don’t get why these 10-minute-monologue people can’t just use the dictation feature instead of recording a voice message. Text I can parse and find the important bits very quickly, a voice note I have to listen to carefully and sometimes even take notes. I hate them.
I think we’re looking in this at too much of a functional level. Voice notes can be a momento from a loved one. I wish more of my friends and family used them because one day they won’t be around and I would love to be able to hear their voice again.
Because they’re cringe and impractical?
You have to speak them out loud and listen to them out loud (or with headphones), therefore bothering everyone around you.
One thing this article doesn’t talk about is that a lot of the countries in the ‘likes both’ camp had a lot of their mobile phone adoption happen after the introduction of smart phones.
