To Dislike Voice notes?

[theorangebox]

Just that really, people who voice note instead of texting or phoning. Maybe it's just me but I find it quite overwhelming to stop and find time to listen and then remember what they have said so that I can reply. I tend to just avoid the message for ages as I know that it will require me to make mental notes. Am I the only one?

Yes. Absolutely the only one.

Joking. Of course not. My mum hates them. I use thwm with friend in different time zone. Each to their own, just let the person know you prefer text

I hate them too. It takes so much longer to listen to the message than to read it, and people also seem to take ages to get to the point. I get really impatient listening to them

If I’m at home I’ll listen. If I’m out somewhere & don’t have headphones, which I hardly ever do, I’ll text them back to say I can’t listen until later & please text if urgent.

Sometimes I remember to listen later.

Hate hate hate them. I'm a speed reader so can scan a whatsapp in 2 secs but listening to a rambling voice note irritates me far more than it should. At work my VM message says 'Please send me an email/text for a quick response as I will only check vm at the end of the day'

More convenient for the sender. Awful for the recipient.

Ok if it's urgent and the sender can't stop to type, but otherwise just lazy.

I hate them, they’re like voicemail only somehow worse. They’re easier for the sender but harder for the recipient. I just don’t listen to them.

Nope not just you. I’m often in a situation where I can’t listen in but I could have read a message. Up to them I suppose but if it also requires a second listen back to check something, then that’s not happening.

I use them sometimes. I hate sending what's app /texts and apparently no one likes you to phone (recent threads). So someone is always pissed off. I'm on the move alot of the time so,see and read a note but can't respond and forget or start typing and can't be bothered to get the tone right for some longer things

I cannot bare them! They are utterly selfish, the people sending them use them as an opportunity for a monologue when you just want to know what they want. It would be quicker for everyone if they just dropped a text. They really are awful.

I love them, so lovely to hear the voice of a friend or family member and a lot easier than stopping to type. Also brilliant for those in different parts of the world to send back and forth updates

The only people I know that use them are my teenage daughter and her friends. They send these irritating, long breathy semihysterical voice notes to each other. I certainly don’t have any adult friends to do this. Thank goodness.

I assumed it was a teenage thing as my DD12 constantly sends me voice notes buf I hate them too!

I refuse to listen to them. Any I've received have had a message back to either call me or text me.

It's such a selfish method of contacting someone - broadcast if you want, it doesn't mean I can or want to listen to it.

But you'll get all the heavy users of it on here saying how much they love it.

I don't mind them if they're brief. Long rambling ones, or ones with loads of details I need to note down, not so much. Also annoying if you're not in a place you can listen to them (and no, I'm not going to cart headphones about that I otherwise won't use purely for this purpose).

I don't mind them.

Oh I absolutely hate them. They are usually relaying some info I need to know too. So I have to stop what I'm doing to listen to somebody waffle on! I got one recently that was just over 16 minutes!! I'd guess 5 minutes of that consisted of "So....erm...yeah" They should have a one minute limit. They have an air of self importance about them too. Like 'I'm going to talk and you're going to listen' I can't stand them! I wish there was a setting on WhatsApp that banned them from being sent to my number!

I like them with certain friends as I rarely get to speak to them on the phone and we can have a back and forth conversation at times that suit each of us. If I get them when I’m out and can’t listen I just say that back but then if someone needed to tell me urgently about something they’d message or call
I agree about the mental notes though

Hate them. Entirely for the convenience of the sender. As a pp upthread has stated, she sends them, when she "can't respond and forget or start typing and can't be bothered to get the tone right for some longer things".

Love em

I'm very happy my friends don't use them. I'd hate it. I feel it's like speaking to a an answerphone, which I never do. However, for some disabilities VNs are helpful.

The Head at my dcs' school went through a stage of sending a recording of him reading out letters instead of written communications. It was like having to sit through an assembly. I think he maybe did it as he thought people weren't reading the letters. I was glad when he started sending them in written form too as I much prefer reading things to having to sit through them being read out or watching a video to get information

My teenager hates them because she is sometimes with her mates and my voice reminding her to get milk on the way home and not to forget to text her Nan is embarrassing, apparently. I am under strict instructions to only text, phone rarely, never voice note.

Hate them! It’s basically a voluntary voicemail. Voicemails suck. (By voicemail I mean answerphone!) Also, like a mini shitty podcast.

My sister and her DP do this, it's so embarrassing when she turns the volume up in order to hear him and broadcasts his voice across wherever we happen to be. Just send a text ffs.

I've heard of them but I don't know what they are! Might I have received one and not know about it? I hate voicemail. Phone tells me I have a voicemail so I listen in and it turns out to be from three weeks ago. What's that about?