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Re:The Death of the Telephone Call: 1876–2007 by personlurking on Saturday September 24, 2016 @04:21PM (#12572482)
I'd like it if audio were on the way up. On WhatsApp I send lots of audio messages but the amount I get back in return is small. It's so much easier to hit record than to try and type on a tiny virtual keyboard. Text is great for my laptop, short or long audios, for my phone. No calls, though.

Actually, I find audio messages more like writing, in that one can think about what they want to say and there's no pressure to say something "right this moment", as with a telephone call. Likewise, the person receiving the audio message can listen to it when it suits them.

Re:The Death of the Telephone Call: 1876–2007 by kilroy123 on Saturday September 24, 2016 @09:54PM (#12573500)
Same here. I moved abroad and everyone here uses whatsapp. Voice recordings are extremely common and popular.

I just wish slack added the same feature, so I can drop a recording into a channel, instead of typing a wall of text.