Hello, random creatures.
It feels like I haven’t been here again for centuries.
I kind of like appearing and disappearing from here. Well, not really, but I guess 2026 is kind of interesting to me, in both good and bad ways, but stories might come another time.
I’m here to know if any of you, my imaginary audience 😛 have any preferences when it comes to communication.
What do you prefer? Calls, voice messages or text messages?
Personally, it depends.
For example, I went to school with a girl when we were kids, and we recently reconnected. We got to talking, and at a point, I asked her what her favorite memory is from her life overall, and she responded with a 22 minute voice message. I have no problem with long voice messages, but if the message is longer than 10 minutes, I think you can call the recipient. Again, I have no problem with long messages, they fit nicely in the background and motivate me to be productive because if I just sat and listened, I would get bored.
I don’t have any problem with talking on the phone, but my social anxiety-type feelings have a problem with it, LOL. I mean, if I haven’t talked to you that much via text or in person, then if you call me, I’m going to be a little scared to answer, or take the initiative to call. But for people I know better, I don’t have a problem.
But I personally feel that I can express myself better through text, because I have more time to think about what words to use, or what to answer, and how to actually phrase it. I have nothing against the other forms of talking that I mentioned though.
Calls, voice messages, or text messages?
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3 responses to “Calls, voice messages, or text messages?”
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I’m so bad at calls. It’s not that I don’t want to talk, but I have some kind of mental barrier when it comes to calling or answering calls, even from my close friends and surprise surprise, my girlfriend 😀 I need to really work this through in therapy 😀 Texting is King.
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Unfortunately, practically since I was 12, almost all of my friends have been people who live far away from me. Now that I’m studying in Budapest as well, the distance has decreased somewhat, but I still spend a lot of time at home. That’s why calls mean a lot to me, they allow me to hear my friends and feel like they’re close to me. I really love hearing people’s voices, because that’s how I know that they’re actually alive, moving around, and here with me. I only send voice messages to people I’m very close to or feel comfortable talking in front of. Or when, for some reason, I’m unable to type.
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For me text messages are the best form of communication. I don’t like when someone calling me.
If someone want to call, the best option to do this is send me a message first. 1. Because i have active “do not disturb” option on my phone 24 hours 7 days a week. 2. I really don’t like when someone calls me because want something. If you need something from me, just write, i’m not a call center :D.
There are only few people who can call me everytime when they want because i know that if they calling they want just talk to with me normally, not like “Hey, my computer is broken! Aaaaaah.”
Voice messages? I hate it.
In Poland, a large part of the blind community records long voice messages without thinking them through first. They often don’t even know what they wanted to say, and you can hear a lot of “ummm” and “errr” throughout them. If someone wants to record a voice message, they should first think about what they actually want to say, because not everyone has as much time as the person recording it to sit and listen afterward.
The exception is messages from my closest friends, because I know that if they send me a voice message, it’s either because they want to show me something or because they can’t type at the moment. I also only use voice messages when I can’t write for some reason.
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