When Amy Sutton first started dating her now-boyfriend, they spent hours on end sending voice notes back and forth. Not texts, voice notes.
Sutton would record these messages while cooking or cleaning, or when she was in the bath. “It was like a whole evening together but without having to put on makeup.” Sutton describes these evenings spent voice noting as mini dates.
To her, the exchange felt more intimate than texting, and gave her “a greater sense of who someone is, their sense of humour.” It was “less pressure than a phone call,” she says.
These hours of endless voice noting were time well spent for Sutton — she and her boyfriend have been together for two years. “We recently looked back at our messages and I was like holy crap, the time on voice notes! I could’ve saved the world in that time,” says Sutton. Read more…
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