Zoomers refuse to call and leave a voicemail but then send you a 3 minute voice message
My mom leaving a serious, borderline urgent tone voicemail: Call me
Me calling back: Is everything ok?
My mom’s response: Oh I just wanted to hear your voice
Mom: “Are you working today?”
Me: “i go in tonight”
Mom: “Call me tomorrow”
Now i am panicking because she often does that with bad news. Usually though she doesn’t have anything to actually say, just wanting to catch up. But why does it always have to seem like an emergency?
Its all in service of the “This Meeting Could be a Phone Call > Could be an Email > Could be a Text Message > Could be in the trash” pipeline.
Dear all software developers on the planet: Please implement a feature where all ellipses are forcibly replaced by a single period.
If I get one more email from an older work colleague replying to me saying “That’s great…” or “Give me a call…” or “Let’s talk about that…” I will fucking lose it.
I love her dearly, but i once asked my best friend to tell me about her new boyfriend. She sent me 10 minutes of snapchat videos. I couldn’t even hear his name because she was washing dishes when she said it. She then went on about 3 tangents before i gave up and told her to text me :name, his job, how they met, first date.
Girl, i do not have time to watch a snapchat video essay. I need my phone to watch Youtube video essays.
She uses Snapchat as a video dairy and sends her friends 3+ minute ramblings every day. Again, i love her dearly, but i never watch them because you can just keep tapping through them and not notice any difference. She just repeats the same thing over and over, so i jist respond to the first video and she is happy. She knows that no one is listening to the whole rant, she’s just saying what she is thinking out loud and letting us now what her current mood is basically.
I love listening to 3 minutes of uuuuhhs and uuummmms to hear something that could have been written as a 5 word sentence
“oh wait is this working” 5 seconds of silence and tapping “oh yeah it’s fine I don’t know what that was. Anyway…”
People are all like “I don’t like reading” well fuck you I do, send me goddamn paragraphs so I finally have someone to send paragraphs back to
*latest fad
they definitely are very recent and coincide with the replacement of text messages with rich messaging apps like whatsapp/signal/imessage, hence their use by zoomers as you say
Does it feel weird to write so authoritatively despite being objectively wrong?
