There is value in your friends’ voice notes | Letters
The voice note allows for thinking mid-sentence and hearing your friends in a raw, un-curated state, says Nancy MellorAnnabel Martin is wrong about voice notes (The hill I will die...
By Guardian Staff · The Guardian Opinion
The voice note allows for thinking mid-sentence and hearing your friends in a raw, un-curated state, says Nancy Mellor Annabel Martin is wrong about voice notes ( The hill I will die on: Voice notes have made my generation a bunch of self-absorbed bores, 9 May ). They do not exemplify our disconnected digital landscape, but attempt to combat it. Listening to friends’ half-formed musings is a core part of sustaining a relationship, and one that has become increasingly uncommon in an isolated digital age. In an age of “ did the journal factory explode ” – a catchphrase used when someone is oversharing and saying something that could have been written in a journal instead – and the pop psychology of emotional labour, text messages have become increasingly refined, the barrier of hitting enter protecting us against embarrassment, but the voice note allows for thinking mid-sentence and hearing your friends in a raw, uncurated state. Continue reading...