20 May 2025, 08:12

By Johnny Jenkins

It’s time we talked about voice notes - or better yet, stopped sending them altogether.

There’s a new menace in modern communication: voice notes are fast replacing bog-standard text messages.

It’s somewhere between texting and calling, a hybrid which manages to be worse than both.

They demand more attention and time than a simple text, even when you play them at double speed.

You can’t quickly glance at the message, you’re forced to listen in real time to rambling nonsense. I want short and sharp details over messages, not a lengthy sermon - even from my best........

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