What I cannot understand is that while now every second person has a Smartphone with WhatsApp facility offering Voice Message Option, then why we still depend on the "archaic" text message(Short Messaging Service or SMS) for communicating with one another when we are not resorting to direct calls. In fact when we send a message through WhatsApp, even then we mainly prefer sending the message through text message.
We seem to forget that WhatsApp Voice Message can be a comfortable alternative for the text message. For example, a huge relief in WhatsApp Voice Message is that you do not have to ruin your fingers for typing the message, something that you face in the case of SMS. It especially becomes a huge relief when you have to send a long and elaborative message.
Another significant benefit is that if you try to send a long message through SMS, then it sometimes tend to be an MMS(though this problem does not appear if you are sending the text through WhatsApp). But this problem is not there in WhatsApp Voice Message.
And sending a voice message obviously takes lesser time than the time that you need for sending a text message.
It is of course true that WhatsApp Voice Message has certain negative sides. For example, using WhatsApp Voice Message needs the use of Internet connection for both the sender and receiver of the message, and that adds to the cost, while Internet connection is not required by any of them while using SMS.
And there may also be the issue of privacy. While you can compose a very personal SMS Or read one such message while being surrounded by strangers in a public place, you cannot do the same while sending or receiving a personal message through the Voice Message technology.
But of course we will not think of completely avoiding text message. Rather we have to judge the Voice Message Option as a good alternative, and use it when there are no circumstantial problems with the same.
