are you her lover Text messages?, or, on the contrary, more than you prefer? send sound? Whatever the answer, the truth is that current communication is in most cases unthinkable without an electronic device.
Technology is synonymous with connection—it is easier to communicate with others because it offers a wide variety of tools to do so—but it is not necessarily associated with strengthening social connections.
Having endless possibilities for communication only makes it more imperative to choose wisely how you connect with others. Messages or voices? It is one of the great dilemmas that arise today among people who use apps. Messenger service.
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But that’s just a question that doesn’t worry users; Fortunately, it also casts doubt among some researchers who decided to run a curious experiment from the Journal of Experimental Psychology (part of the American Psychological Association, which publishes articles describing empirical studies in areas of psychological interest).
Researchers Kumar and Epley asked field trial participants to connect with an old friend via email or phone; also being asked to talk to a stranger “through video, audio or text-based means”.
Conclusion? Everything shows that voice interactions such as video and voice chat provide greater well-being for users., because they not only contribute to creating stronger connections, but also do not create inconvenience. As with anything, it has its pros and cons.
(Keep reading: Voice memos as status, what’s coming for WhatsApp).
Spanish media ‘The Conversation’ – the main platform on the Internet for distributing informative articles signed by academics and scientists – for example stated that choosing audio over text shifts the balance towards the publisher (which makes their job easier). ) while complicating the buyer’s.
When it comes to text-based interactions, the study published by the American Psychological Association revealed that: compared to voice communication, text produced unsatisfactory results where expectations for users’ comfort and connectivity are not fully met.
(Interest: What are WhatsApp communities and how do they work?).
What do you prefer now, a text message or a voicemail, with a much more revealing panorama?
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