Zoomers refuse to call and leave a voicemail but then send you a 3 minute voice message

  • bleepbloopbop [they/them]@hexbear.net
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    2 months ago

    Seriously! I’d love to talk to you, but I don’t particularly want to listen to you talking at me.

    It’s the worst of both worlds, I can’t respond in any way or ask for clarification or say “hey can you speak up it’s really loud where you are”, to a voice message like I could on a call, but nor can I read through it quickly, or look back over what was said like a text.

    Imagine having everything from pagers to video chat to VR at your disposal and choosing what is essentially digital voicemail as your preferred means of communication. Not as a fallback when you aren’t both able to talk, but as the first choice. I can’t

    • rootsbreadandmakka [he/him]@hexbear.netOP
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      2 months ago

      This is exactly how I feel about it. Like at least give me a call first before I have to listen to you rambling on for 3 minutes about something that really could’ve been a short text.