For me it’s not fear, just aversion (like the pic says, ew). For one, vocal information takes more energy and concentration for me to process than reading. Plus it’s slower, just in general data rate without getting into how vocal speech often has overhead like “Hi, how’s it going? It’s me. Just calling to say that…” and a bunch of stuff in between too. You don’t get that with text. Brief and to the point. Usually.
Then there’s the fact that I have to dial in to get a voice message instead of one button click (or check my watch), which isn’t as bad these days with it going straight to the one message. But before when you had to dial in, go through a menu, wait for it to tell you the whole time, date, and phone number (one-number-at-a-time) before getting to the message… yeah, no. Or I can just read your text in 2-5 seconds, thanks.
For me it’s not fear, just aversion (like the pic says, ew). For one, vocal information takes more energy and concentration for me to process than reading. Plus it’s slower, just in general data rate without getting into how vocal speech often has overhead like “Hi, how’s it going? It’s me. Just calling to say that…” and a bunch of stuff in between too. You don’t get that with text. Brief and to the point. Usually.
Then there’s the fact that I have to dial in to get a voice message instead of one button click (or check my watch), which isn’t as bad these days with it going straight to the one message. But before when you had to dial in, go through a menu, wait for it to tell you the whole time, date, and phone number (one-number-at-a-time) before getting to the message… yeah, no. Or I can just read your text in 2-5 seconds, thanks.