During these alienating times, verbal messages helped us to communicate quickly while maintaining intimacy and friendship
‘The voice note fits seamlessly into the modern world in a way that its cousins the phone call and voicemail do not.’ Photograph: Jiangang Wang/Moment Editorial/Getty Images
‘The voice note fits seamlessly into the modern world in a way that its cousins the phone call and voicemail do not.’ Photograph: Jiangang Wang/Moment Editorial/Getty Images
Sun 3 Jan 2021 09.57 EST
Last modified on Sun 3 Jan 2021 12.03 EST
As the pandemic transformed the world in 2020, we leaned further into our reliance on technology, which continued to alter and tweak how we engage with each other. There were obvious winners; the Zoom app thrived; another app called Houseparty was the biggest thing for all of two weeks before it was never heard of again. Amid all these crazes, however, a quietly unassuming communication tool also flourished – the small but mighty “voice not