So do you use voice messaging?

No I hate it. It’s too personal

I avoid it like the plague as do most people in 2022.

What the fuck, brehs - I love voicemail now!

Can voicemails be saved?

Well you are passive aggressive R3 because nobody wants to go listen to your damned voice mails.

No, I've had it switched off for over 20 years.

You can use voice messaging instead of texting in other apps like WhatsApp.

Hate voicemails. I read them transcribed on my phone, never listen to them.

I have older relatives who leave voicemails that are five minutes long, they're not into texting.

So, OP, do you realise that your use of “so” makes you sound like an idiot?

Whatsapp is huge where I live. It has a 98% presence on mobiles; 71% of the population (aged birth to death) uses Whatsapp; and 52% of Mobile users use Whatsapp every day.

Whatsapp is fine but its voice messaging (and voice messaging in general) is not a favorite thing of mine. People gravitate to it thinking it's a quick way to leave a message on the run, but almost inevitably they follow up with back to back 'and another thing...' messages, meaning that you get bored and call them on Whatsapp to talk directly or you leave your own barrage of voice messages that you don't expect anyone to listen to in full. And so it goes.

Worse the en route messages are often enough difficult for me to understand because of the clipped off start and end of each clip and a tendency to speak rapidly, or alternately mumbly and haltingly and then ligtning fast, and to comingle a message with a conversation with whomever is with the person contacting you. It can be a test of fluency in a language that's not my first.

People only use something other than Whatsapp to make a point, and take a chance on catching the attention of someone who is ignoring his Whatsapp notices.

Interesting, r10. Are you in France or something?

Or South America?

France-adjacent, R10.

Apple iMessage has a VM feature that I use sometimes when a verbal message can be beneficial over just text.

Handy to have.

iMessage, no. WhatsApp, yes.

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[Quote] Can voicemails be saved?

Interesting, r13!

Curious, DLer from Spain, do people there still text, or only vm?

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I won't leave a voicemail unless I have no other options. I hate it so very very much. I also do not listen to voice mails now, only the transcription of them. I delete any work VM's I get because I have on my details to DM or email me. I don't use voice texting, it's inaccurate and I can text type pretty fast now.

Lolz to everyone here who thinks it’s voicemail.

[quote]Curious, DLer from Spain, do people there still text, or only vm?

It's Spain, so both, R18, in tandem of course. It usually begins with text message/s, then can switch to voice messaging, and once that starts it's both until one arrives at the other's house. All on Whatsapp (except the few radicals who switched to Telegram and are still pissed that all but a handful abandoned it quickly and went back to evil but ridiculously popular Whatsapp.

It depends on the nature of the message whether it's text or voice message, not to overlook the untold images received every day. Some people are very voice message prone, a few are text diehards, and most start with a text and as soon as the typing gets complicated they switch to voice messages traded in almost real time.

In the U.S. I have friends who get stuck in old technologies, who only communicate via FB Messenger (FFS), or email (FFS), or Instagram (when they don't want you to notice the message for a few weeks or months), to text and voice messages through mobile #s. In Spain, the only people who leave old fashioned voicemail are tradespeople who don't know your Whatsapp contact - yet. It's the guy calling from down the street to see if you are home to take a delivery of a package, or the hospital calling to remind you of an appointment.

If it's not via Whatsapp it's regarded with suspicion -- or you have gone incommunicado and people are trying to reach you by all available means thinking it's only Whatsapp that you've turned off for some reason.

I’m truly fascinated, r22.

I feel like an insider now!

WhatsApp is owned by Facebook and I hate Facebook and Zuckerputz, so no WhatsApp for me.

Without WhatsApp I would have no friends or social life so I just have to use it.

Using the voice recording function is not the same as voice mail. I have friends i chat with using voice messaging instead of texting each other.

Why are a bunch of people here replying about Voice Mail when OP and the article are specifically talking about Voice MESSAGING.

Do people here not know what Voice Messaging is? It's a voice (or audio) message you send. via text or chat.

You make the recording then send it. It's NOT a recording you leave when someone doesn't answer the phone.

Yeah, we get that, r27.

OMG

🙄

I didn't get that. But eventually figured it out. You learn something new!

“GUYS! IT’S. 👏 NOT. 👏 VOICEMAIL. 👏 It’s a MESSAGE you RECORD for someone else, who then PLAYS it at their LEISURE.”

Oh, my sides!!!!

R27 = Crypto-shill for Big Voicemail

Voice mail versus voice messaging. The difference is intention -- and a smaller one than some of your would suggest.

Voicemail - someone hasn't been able to get a response from me via the other channels so they call me and leave a voice message to say, "What the fuck, man? I left all kinds of messages for you and no answer. Let me know if you're coming on Friday."

Voice messaging - your Tuvan throat singer friend is in town and you've been having him leave stupid messages to all your friends, not directly by calling you by phone but by leaving a voice message just as you would leave a text message (Whatsapp, iMessage, SMS, FB Messenger, Google Chat/Hangouts/GMail, LinkedIn for fucks sake...a thousand choices)

The distinction between voicemail and voice message isn't so black-&-white and all important as it once was.

Voicemail - Now With Intentionality!

Joe Biden is leaving voicemails for r32!

More importantly, I don't start sentences with "so."

Learn English, OP.

R32 We're glad someone like you can clarify.

"than some of your"

Google Hangouts?

Tell us more about this throat singer friend…

It has possibilities…

[quote] More importantly, I don't start sentences with "so."

So what's the problem r35?

OP replies to itself a lot

VIOLENCE! VIOLENCE!