To hate WhatsApp voice notes?

[MattCauthon]

I don't mind a quick one because someone is running to meet you and wants to let you know they are on the way or whatever. But the 2-10 minute ones from SIL drive me mad. Long ramble ones. Either call me to discuss or summarise in a quick text. I am lucky that she is the only one. Dh has a couple.of colleagues who do it on their team whatsapp for scheduling and if drives him.mad too.

It's just so entitled. Like I have 4 minutes to listen to it all?! Argh!!! (And yes, I concede that this is probably aggravated by ongoing issues of SIL being kind and generous on one hand but hugely self absorbed and selfish on the other (kind and generous... on her terms!)

What a bunch of miserable bastards most of you are😂😂😂

How very dare your friends and family leave voice notes for you! HOW selfish they are😂😂😂

I love receiving and sending them as it demonstrates how lovely and close I am to my good friends and family and I want to hear their voices!

Most people don’t want random phones calls these days - which is fair enough, I am busy with kids, work, home life etc, so a voicenote is actually a little bonus during my day that I can listen to when I take a break and cheers me up to hear what my loved ones have been up to, especially if we’ve not had time for a call.

Love a voice note

I feel like I'm of the generation who as soon as easy and low-cost text messaging became a thing we ran as fast as we could from the inconvenience and tedium of voicemail - maybe that's why voice notes feel so weirdly regressive to some of us?

We found a better way! Don't take it away from us!

Hate them. They make me feel imposed upon and irritated. It's much easier to quickly scan a text message and maybe decide to process the contents or reply later. Knowing that i have a 4 min voice note sitting there, with no indication of topic or how urgent msg is, takes up more of my mental space than it should. My feelings are probably to do with person who routinely sends them to me. My DC don't but I probably wouldn't mind as much if they did.

I loathe them, and they get robustly ignored.

So its not just me?! 🤣🤣

I think what's interesting reading the comments is it does seem to depend on what they are for ans how they are being used. It reminded me that a friend/colleague and I have done the odd voice note thing in the past when having a slow conversation about a specific work related idea. And that worked for both of us.

Vs SIL who sends me long rambling messages when a simple, "do you guys want to come over for supper day lunch" would do (and is ultimately what shes asking).

And yes, v annoying how it interrupts what I am doing in a way a text doesn't.

Oh my god, there is literally nothing I could monologue about for 30mins. That’s insanity. What do you say for 30mins!

In general I agree, it’s like people don’t know that voice to text is a thing!! Just dictate! I can read far quicker than you can talk, and far more frequently (ie, in public!).

If you voice note me, you’re gonna have to wait hours for a reply, which is annoying as I want to hear your thoughts on things! So much harder to get the flow of conversation going when you have to wait for a good time to respond. And I have to listen to voice notes multiple times to make sure I’ve responded to everything, instead of quickly scanning back through text 😄

It’s worst when you’ve texted something asking a specific question and they reply with a voice note!

I do voice note my best friend as a lot of the time we have to convey tone of voice/funny voices etc but one conversation can take days.

OMG MY PEOPLE.

I love a voice note but not a chance would I listen to 4 minute long one.

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I really hate them. If they mention more than one thing, I've forgotten the beginning by the time I've got to the end. I also hate being recorded, so I have to reply with a written message anyway.

I despise them, and on me a sent too. They fill me with anxiety. I wish there was a way to disable them.

I have one friend who sends lengthy VMs but she doesn’t expect an instant reply. It’s ok because we know each other well.

My friend sends 3 or 4 minute long voice notes, I can never remember everything she's said so I have to reply to it but by bit 😅🤦‍♀️ so I get 1 very long voice note off her and she gets 10+ short voice notes off me.

I hate them, im busy so have got just enough time to glance at a message. I dont want to listen to them when people are around, in the office, or while im busy doing other stuff.

I have one friend who uses them, but she knows she'll have to wait days for a response.

An ex work collegue used to use them on the work group but i just completely ignored them.

You’re not alone. Anything over 30 seconds and I’m out. Texts were invented for a reason!

Anything and everything! It's brilliant, we properly get into deep chats but with convenience, it works well with a few friends that are too busy to meet up often.

Some friends hate voicenotes so we just message or catch up over coffee.

So totally depends on person/relationship!

I'm so glad when a friend sends a long one - I happily listen while working/washing up/ironing.

It feels like I have company 😀

All my friends use voice notes and we love them. I can’t believe that people would hate them so passionately😂. I wonder if it’s a generational thing.
If I don’t have time to listen I’ll just send a quick will listen later message
don’t understand how it can be entitled or rude and I don’t believe that anyone is so busy that they can’t listen to a voice note for a few minutes

I hate them (and have "Please don't send me voice notes" as my status). I wish it was possible to change settings so they can't be sent to me.

But I do like calling someone for a chat - if it isn't convenient then they don't have to answer. A (text) message to say "Tried calling but nothing urgent - just checking in" is easier for the person I was calling than a voicemail.

As an adult that was born with a hearing loss that all my friends and family know about... Don't send me a sodding voice note....

Drives me up the wall, I have no chance of understanding it. Want to converse with me then do me the kindness of communicating in a style that puts us on an even footing.

I used to dislike them, but, a friend who I don't see often sends me them, and I love hearing her voice, and listening to what she's been up to...admittedly it takes me longer to get the time to set aside to listen, but I still love receiving them from her - am a convert!

I love them. I love hearing my friends’ voices and they are usually leaving me a note to tell me a funny story which is much better in the listening than reading. I don’t leave them but I love getting them.

Agree, it’s always those who love the sound of their own voice and ramble on about themselves for minutes at a time!

Hate them. A lot of my work colleagues send them. So they may include confidential information, which means I need to be alone to listen and there will be the inevitable 20 second run up while they knuckle down to what the frigging message is actually about, in which time I could have read all my messages if they were in text. Plus I’m going to get 4 different ones about different situations in the average morning, and I’m not good at remembering all the finer details, and the situations may have common details (like, we may have 2 patients aged 68 living in the same town, or two with the same initials) so I’m going to have to find time to listen to them all repeatedly. And my car hands free doesn’t play them so I can’t listen while driving. ALL SO SLOW AND SUCH A WASTE OF TIME. Speech to text exists if you really can’t be arsed to type.

I was in a train once where a woman was I think sending voice notes to a friend. So every couple of minutes she would lift up her phone and burble another chunk of self-obsessed nonsense to her poor friend, who I hope was deleting them all.