To think voice clips should be banned?

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I'm not talking about voicemail. I have nothing against a short message to say that you tried to call, give details on when would be good to call back, etc etc.

I'm talking about the voice clips you can record on Whatsapp, messenger and so on. Maybe it's just my circle, but some of my friends will leave about 10x1 minute voice clips. In order to listen to them, I need to have a quiet, private space, time to listen to them all, and some way to note down everything they've said because by the time I've got to the last one I can't remember what was said in the earlier ones. With a text, you can just read back to make sure you've replied to everything they've said. If you need to reply a little later, you have to relisten to the whole thing again. Voice clips only benefit the sender, not the receiver.

They were a good idea to try out, but now we've seen how insanely annoying they are, it's time for them to be treated as a failed experiment.

But whose time does it save? Yours or theirs?

It's still quicker to read, even when they're sped up. And that doesn't change the fact that you can't refer back to details of the message without listening to the whole thing again, and you need a private space or headphones to listen to them.

Yes ban them.
I mostly dont listen to them unless i am bored and have time to kill. Normally i just make it clear to people that i might not get to listen till later

I can’t stand them for lots of the reasons given here.

I don’t usually carry headphones so that means listening has to wait until I’m on my own & have time.
If there’s important info there I probably have to play it two or three times to make sure I’ve got it all, which is a lot more inconvenient than just being able to read it. And I have to listen to the whole thing in the order it’s in, instead of being able to skim through it & look at specific bits.

Annoying.

I loathe them. DHs family use them all the time. Long ones too. Im a speed reader and can read the messages quicker than they can say them.

I refuse to listen to them now.

My partner is dyslexic and hates it when I send him long messages so he's the only person I use them for.
The first time someone sent me one I freaked out and felt really weird talking to myself to reply!

Yes I agree, we have a business client who uses them, she leaves great long ones that last about 10 minutes and most of it is irrelevant but there will be something in there that is important! I would much rather someone use their voice to dictate a text if they can't be bothered with typing

Really annoying. Some mums do this in our class Whatsapp, it is such an imposition to have to go somewhere quiet and play it only find out it is Amalia’s mum asking if anyone has seen her jumper. X30 as every other parent has to do the same thing.

Fine for sending tapes of sounds (singing happy birthday or something), or for people with poor English skills, dyslexia etc. But everyone else can fuck off with them.

Totally agree, especially the listening back and trying to remember what was said so you reply to everything. So annoying!

I am amazed and mortified about how many people hate them. I use them all the time. I have a baby and never have free hands and so a voice note is soooo much easier and quicker than texting . I also like listening to them.

I appreciate that people need some quiet to listen to them but they can always wait until there is some quiet. They are never urgent.

I like them for one reason only. My dd lives a few hours away and neither of us can travel to visit each other. We are not fans of phone calls or FaceTime. She sometimes leaves me a few voice messages in a row and it's lovely to hear her voice.

I honestly hate them. But that's mainly because it's my 20yo so who sends them to me and I can never be completely certain they are appropriate to listen to in mixed company.

He deliberately makes risqué comments, or is a bit sweary. I know he'll be in fits of laughter knowing I've got my Mum face on

I think YABU. Voice notes are so useful when I have a flare up of my joint condition. Voice dictation can be a nightmare when it keeps getting the words wrong and my new phone unfortunately doesn't even have the option. (That or my phone won't enable it which is annoying)

Second reason is that most of my family/close friend's have lived or current live abroad where the time difference means we can't always catch each other on the phone. Even though they mostly text, it's really nice to hear their voice every so often.

I have not read the full thread. I often use voice messages on whatsapp. So do my friends and my sister. I just listen to it with earphones in. No problem at all. I don't know what the fuss is all about. If you don't like them then don't use them and ask friends not to voice message you. Simple.

No big deal either way and nothing to get stressed about when they can Simply be sped up. We should not dictate how people want to communicate to us. Maybe they prefer voice notes rather than long boring text messages. Whose to say which one is more preferable than the other and to dictate which option to chose on how they communicate with us?

I think they're great. Really handy. But seeing this is Mumsnet where knocking someone's door without prior written permission is literally abusive it doesn't surprise me that people are clutching pearls at, you know, actually hearing their friend's voice.

I don't mind people using them but I never listen to them, simply ignore them because I find it irritating. Oh press another button, oh it was not loud enough, oh it stopped playing etc. Call me if you want to speak otherwise text.
Actual voicemails from missed calls on the actual phone I'm OK with as it's usually work.

OH MY GOD!! I nearly posted the very same thing. I’m sick of it. I spend ages responding to each bit of their 10 min messages then give my news and they reply with another 10 min message talking all about themselves. Watsapp notes are feeding narcissistic tendencies! I’m so bored of them.

Don't reply to them, it's pretty easy!

Actual voicemails from missed calls on the actual phone I'm OK with as it's usually work

I've turned voicemail off too! All I need is the missed call. I'll call them back. If they want to make a fucking announcement they'll need to text or email!

My sister sends a lot of them.. I’m not keen but in saying that I received one from my cousin a few weeks before she passed, she wasn’t fully coherent and thought she was leaving me a regular voicemail. I have it saved now and was able to pass it on to her mum who didn’t have anything with her voice so I was very glad for it in that instance.

I do these from time to time when I am really overdue catching certain close friends/fam members up on stuff and I know I will continue to postpone if I leave it to my lazy sausage fingers. My brother calls them my podcasts and one friend said they were creepy, but I’m sure they love them really and everyone caves in the end and podcasts me back in their own time!

Someone asked me to “just send a voice message” the other day and I was like….nope. The thought of somebody listening to my voice like that, potentially in public, makes me cringe.

My dsis soetimes does them ive told her i cant keep the leaving a room to listen to her

must prefer text