"A voicemail is a response to someone not answering their phone; essentially a plea for you to call them back. I'm never going to call them back. Exactly. A voice note, on the other hand, is an audio recording you post to someone in lieu of a text message. It doesn't sound that different. Here's the main difference: voicemail is dead, voice notes are hugely popular."
"Except people hate getting them 62% of recipients admit to suffering from voice note fatigue. Why? The new poll found people typically send six voice notes every day, each lasting about 95 seconds. Ninety five seconds? That's a bit of an imposition on the listener, isn't it? One in 20 respondents said they had received a voice note longer than 10 minutes. That's not a voice note; that's an audition monologue."
"There does seem to be something about the medium that encourages prolixity. Perhaps there's no established etiquette yet. According to Debrett's, the authority on etiquette, voice notes should be under two minutes. Think about what you're going to say before you press record' and stick to your subject. Funny, I don't even know how to send a voice note. Just press the little microphone button to the right of the text window. I didn't say I wanted to know how."
Voice notes are short audio recordings sent instead of text messages and have become widely used, especially among younger people. Surveys show strong polarization: many enjoy recording voice notes while a majority of recipients report fatigue. Users often send multiple notes daily that average around 95 seconds each, with some messages exceeding ten minutes. Lack of established etiquette appears to encourage lengthy, rambling messages; Debrett's recommends keeping voice notes under two minutes and planning remarks before recording. Some observers link the trend to generational communication habits and perceived social tendencies.
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