All social media apps should to get rid of texting, and offer voice notes, only.

So, recently I’ve been reading articles about the high rates of loneliness reported by people in the modern world and some conversations about how social media and the internet might’ve been once a place of connection but now it’s “dead” and offers no connection, at all. Anyways, I think all social media should shift from texting to voice notes only, this can increase a semblance of connection because for one you’re listening to an actual human voice than words on a screen, secondly, it has other benefits, for eg, it’s actually forcing you to speak, it prevents people who spend too much time on social media from losing any skill on how to partake in any sort of normal human interaction or behaviour. It forces something uncomfortable, it prevents you from becoming too comfortable in a socially isolated state where you partake in no healthy human interaction. For sure, it will be uncomfortable for everyone but I think the overall effect would be better because everyone would feel more connected.

Now, I want to clarify, why I mention the idea of people not losing all skill on interacting, normally. Because, who spends the most time of social media? People who are going through a very lonely time in their lives, people who might struggle with social interaction. Of course, I know that the actual cure to such things is actually going outside and I’m not saying this will solve everything I’m just saying it can still bring benefit to people who spend thr most time on social media.

Edit: to clarify, calls still exist. What I meant was texting, where there’s turn taking/delayed response gets replaced with voice-notes (which is a match for texting, but speech instead of text) but if you prefer calling you still have that option.