Voice notes are the culinary equivalent of chewing your food and then offering it to someone else. Efficient for you. Deeply unpleasant for everyone else. And yet here we are, living in an age of instant messaging, keyboards at our fingertips, and autocorrect, and somehow a significant portion of the population has decided that what communication really needed was to become slower, less searchable, and mandatory listening. Voice notes are acceptable in two scenarios: genuine emergencies, and when your hands are so thoroughly occupied that typing is physically impossible. ...