Why do you send voice messages?

Why'd You Push That Button?

Vox Media Podcast Network

Society & Culture, Arts, Technology, Design

4.4 • 683 Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2018

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

The people who love voice messages love voice messages. Vox.com’s Kaitlyn Tiffany and The Verge’s Ashley Carman aren’t those people. On this week’s Why’d You Push That Button, they discuss voice messages and why people send them. They also try to figure out why people like them in the first place. Ashley talks to her best friend, Casey, about her habit of sending voice messages, and Kaitlyn interviews The Verge’s very own AI reporter James Vincent and his mom, Bridget, about their family texting dynamics. It’s heartwarming. Then, Ashley and Kaitlyn take all that they’ve learned to Djamel Agaoua, the CEO of messaging app Viber, to learn more about why people use voice messages and how they’ve become more popular around the world. Agaoua posits a few theories on why they’ve bloomed in popularity and previews how voice messages will evolve in the future. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:32.9	lazy I'll send them like if I only have one hand to text a few of my friends friends send me voice messages, and when they do, it's always a really nice surprise.
0:41.3	Like I've actually never sent anyone else a voice message other than an Italian man.
0:45.3	I received them from parents who butt dialed me in the car.
0:48.3	I wouldn't want people to play their voice messages out loud so I could hear them.
0:53.3	My mean sister will send them to me sometimes and then there's never any evidence because
0:57.6	they disappear.
0:58.6	Hello!
0:59.6	Welcome to Why Do You Push That Button, a show where Ashley Carmen, and Caitlin Tiffany, that's
1:05.6	me, examine the choices technology forces us to make.
1:09.1	Today we're talking about voice memos. Messages you send
1:12.3	to your friends instead of texting them where you're like, what's up, Caitlin? And it's just me.
1:17.3	Yeah. Messaging her with my voice. Yeah. In a lot of messaging apps, but specifically I use
1:22.7	I message. So we're going to do I message where I'm texting ashley and i press the little microphone and i'm
1:29.0	like hey ashley i love and miss you when you're away and i'm so jealous of your dark blue scarf
1:35.1	and i'm holding the button while i'm talking and then it's done it's recorded i send it and it appears
1:39.8	on her phone i just got it okay let's see if i can listen to it. It says it's six seconds long.
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