My first axiom of life is that contradictions are necessary and my relationship with whatsapp audio is one of the best examples. I hate to receive them but I love to send them. What does this very useful function have to generate hatred and passion depending on which side of the phone you are on?
Please don’t send me audio
An operation full attention
I don’t know if it was life, social networks or the enormous amount of text that I had to read throughout my existence, the fact is that I almost always got used to skimming, detecting automatically the keywords of the conversation. A lot of information processed at a glance in a short time. This allows me to be able to multi-task with a moderately high success rate: you get most of what you read, plus you can do another task.
With voice messages, the attention I need is much higher, which means you should probably stop doing the other things. I know I’m not the only one in this case: how many times have you seen a WhatsApp audio of several minutes and thought to yourself “I’ll listen to it later, when I have more time”? However, if this conversation goes on for a few more minutes, usually nothing happens.
To Caesar what belongs to Caesar: in one minute we are able to say many more things than if we spend the same time writing, so we will also process more and certainly less concrete information. I’m not always ready, I have the mood or the time to listen to an audio.
What if you want a bag, sir?
She discovers she has a 7 minute audio of her friend, oil on canvas.
“See you tomorrow at 5 p.m. at Zabaldi” vs “hello, hello, hey, it’s cold today. Hey, we’ll finally see you tomorrow, right? I’ve been thinking about it since I go shopping in the old town and like that, we can still see each other more or less at 5, if you can, at Zabaldi? That I also have to return a book and therefore good, a win-win”. The heart is the same but while in the first we are clear about what is important, in the second we have to understand (again, being very careful). we like to connect.
Providing context is important, but sometimes we become a version chusca of Tolkien, who does not hesitate to dedicate several pages to the description of a tree. Moreover, since these are improvised oral messages, we are totally out of the pattern.
The result? A hodgepodge of ideas from which it is difficult to retain what is important and what sometimes confuses more than it enlightens.
Find an excerpt from the conversation and other instruments of torture
In a speech, many things are said and sometimes you have to resort to them throw in the face as a reminder. update important messages. Do scroll Searching for the specific message with text is very simple. And easier and faster if possible is to use the search engine with that specific keyword.
Unfortunately, you can’t do the same with whatsapp audios and if you have also exchanged voice messages, retrieving what interests you may take a long time to listen. Yes, hearing the sped up audio will make it less strenuous, but it’s still terrible. Tip: If there’s audio you think you’ll need later, mark it as a favorite or forward it to yourself.
What I like most about WhatsApp audio
Improve app accessibility
Two fundamental premises must be taken into account: WhatsApp is a messaging application whose mission is to be able to communicate and secondly, that this application is accessible to everyone. Your partner. Your friend. Your neighbor. The plumber. Your aunt Puri from Logroño. Yes not everyone is equally suitable for using touch phone and app
So even if you do it out of convenience or laziness to write, some people do it because they can’t get by with a keyboard, either because they can’t see the letters, because the spaces for them are too small, or because they lack familiarity. And talking to your grandma is often fun, so if she uses the audios to say “okay”, well you shut up and assimilate feten With WhatsApp audio, everyone’s app lets everyone talk.
The naturalness of the oral plays in your favor
go ahead The ideal way to communicate a long message is to do it all at once., so that the idea is not scattered and lost between the exchange of interactions. But stay, communicate in writing to his or her.
Because from “Let’s eat the children” to “Let’s eat the children” there is only a comma and the transition from an instruction for the little ones in the house to eat to an invitation to cannibalism. Punctuation isn’t easy, most of us don’t (we) do it well, and getting it right in writing is an art. And this gives rise to misunderstandings.
At this stage the naturalness of the oral messages helps to structure well and the icing on the cake is given by the tone: In writing, the gates of hell are open to misinterpretations, but in an oral message you can say “thank you, but no” and make it much sweeter.
Absolutely, for uncomfortable conversations, better an audio.
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We’ve seen it to the point of “what if you wanted a bag, sir”, but it has its upsides and downsides. Writing a WhatsApp message requires you to pay moderate attention to the screen and effort to go typingbut with an audio it is to press the button and crack. Plus taking into account that for years it is not even necessary to hold down the microphone button.
Making audios is much more comfortable. Yes, you can also ride and stroll via text, but that’s less likely for convenience and because it’s less invasive for someone to find a 4-minute audio than 17 messages to read. It feels like a ninja giving the leaf because it’s much more collected.
Hey, and what’s good besides blowing off steam as the sender of the message? Well, if you have some familiarity with your interviewer, and if you do a 5 minute audio, I want to think you do, you provide that extra jokes that nurture and strengthen your relationship. In fact, you even have room to move the trailer things that have happened to you and that you will tell when you see yourself.
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