AIBU to be irritated by long voice messages

[Nomad68]

I have a friend who leaves voice messages of 20-30 minutes on what’s app. Is it wrong that I find this irritating? It’s good to hear her news and she will ask about me and family. The messages are so long I have to listen and start my reply at same time. It’s like a monologue that I need to take notes on. Such an unnatural way of communicating.

Yep, voice notes really irritate me and I'm trying to work out why. I have one friend who uses them regularly for non-urgent waffle. It feels like they're easier for her but they create a burden for me. You can glance at a text in seconds as opposed to needing to listen to a minutes long msg to ascertain whether it contains anything important.

Voicemail should not exist and voice notes should be under 1 min. If they ever ask me to rule the world these will be two of my orders.
Yanbu.

Someone I know once chose this medium to convey a series of four-digit codes, so I effectively had to take dictation. I was not impressed.

Best I can do is 2-3 mins on x2. Half an hour? Heck, no

Id tell her you didn’t have time to listen to all of it. Its rude to leave messages that long.

I would have to reply "sorry don't have time to listen to your message,what are the highlights?" It might encourage her to summarise rather than hurl a diatribe at you.

I can’t decide which was to vote in this one 😂

I have friends I regularly exchange 5 minute voice notes with. One friend leaves 20 min ones, and I genuinely enjoy listening to them whilst doing jobs round the house. Some days I spend quite a bit of time on my own, so really enjoy having voice notes to listen to.

Sadly lots of my oldest/closest friends don’t live locally, and I love hearing their voices. I would much prefer to see them more often in person and chat that way though, as agree it’s a more unnatural way of communicating.

I message and say I can’t listen to it , can they message instead. Really annoying.

This is already possible apparently (not done it yet myself). You have to go into a message and then find the microphone somewhere (not the same one used for voice notes). Then it types what you say, but you do have to speak slowly and clearly otherwise it mistypes!

Nope annoying

I find even the short ones a pain as I have to focus fully on them to listen. Where as a text I can read whilst child is in bath making a racket or asking me questions. With voice message I miss half the message and have to re listen especially if it’s giving dates and times, then I have to take notes of them also

I don't think I've ever listened to one that I've been glad I've listened to? It's just been someone droning on. Somebody said on here last night that there is a transcription available on WhatsApp but I don't know how to do it.