Settling an old debate: #texting vs. #voicemail!
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Advantages of sending **text**:
✔️ Much lighter (downloads faster, takes less storage)
✔️ Recipient(s) can read at their own speed
✔️ They can skim it
✔️ Searchable
✔️ Can copy it (eg to paste onto a translation service)
✔️ Can include URLs, hashtags, lists, verbatim quotes, etc
Advantages of sending **voice messages**:
✔️ Encourages sharing messages with those around you atm
✔️ (Unless you have earphones; then) gives you an opportunity to look for / disentangle / switch on / pair / wear / unmute earpieces
✔️ Provides plenty of ambiguity for misunderstandings due to bad audio quality / sloppy diction / background noise / insufficient volume
✔️ Gives you a wonderful reason to temporarily turn music down / mute video / get indoors / pause presentation
✔️ (Unless you can't interrupt what you're listening to; then) offers thrilling amounts of suspense and ignorance until you can listen to the message
✔️ Prevents cheeky recipient(s) from feeding message into automated workflows (eg bridges, bots, IFTTT, feeds, tagging systems)
✔️ Keeps you closer to the sender by forcing to listen to them for several minutes just to learn that their answer to your question is “around 11:30”
My conclusion: clearly there are advantages to both!