@FryedOreo
Dewuan .
@FryedOreo · 4:59

Text vs Audio.. who will win?

article image placeholderTalk vs Text: The art of conversation - Khmer Times
So how can one be better than the other? It's just really what you prefer, right? What do you prefer now? This article, it talks in favor of connecting with people in like a phone conversational way the olden days back in the 70s and 60s and 80s and even 90s. H***, some people still probably use the phone a lot today, but for me, my phone usage has went down extremely

https://www.khmertimeskh.com/90080/talk-vs-text-art-conversation/

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@MerTroutt
Meranda Troutt
@MerTroutt · 2:29
So another thing I wanted to say is if you ask enough questions in text messaging, I think that you will do just fine trying to figure out what somebody is trying to say as long as they know what they're trying to say. I think that a lot of people get scared to ask questions because they don't want to seem ignorant or socially weird or whatever
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@FryedOreo
Dewuan .
@FryedOreo · 4:31

What are the benefits of Swell for you? @MerTroutt

So, yeah, I'm kind of like, you know, I am a writer, but I'm not a writer all in the same. I'm used to kind of being eloquent within the way, how I write a lot, in part due to social media, and also I was a creative writer as a kid and wrote raps and all that stuff. So it's just a natural thing for me
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@bookishpodcast
Shahnaz Ahmed
@bookishpodcast · 4:28

My 2c

Nothing replaces in person for me, but it really adds a factor to saying, oh, wow. I like this better than talking on the phone. So it's a gradation. I think I like, in person the most. Next is video. Next is audio, and then next is text. Interesting enough, yesterday it's just feeling off
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@MerTroutt
Meranda Troutt
@MerTroutt · 0:34
Because I have to talk. There's no other way to share my feelings, share whatever it is I want to share without speaking. That's the whole reason why I downloaded Swell was because I figured that it would give me a push to learn how to better through audio. So yeah, that's what Swell has to offer for me. And I actually do love Swell, even though I'm not a big public speaker or talker, and I have become a better speaker because it's
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@FryedOreo
Dewuan .
@FryedOreo · 4:55

Hello fellow introvert @bookishpodcast

Being on a platform like Swell, it's a place where everybody understands that you are more than encouraged to speak aloud. And if you do, folks will listen now what they do after that is up to them, whether they like it, applauding it, praising it, laughing at it or giving a thumbs up, or if they respond to it right now that's something else entirely different. Also, bookish Podcast do you have any issues being understood in text form versus audio form?
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@FryedOreo
Dewuan .
@FryedOreo · 1:26

We have to keep you talking! 😰 @MerTroutt

And yes, that is cool with swell that it does allow you to speak. I almost wish that you didn't have to make a link or all that sort of stuff. We could just have a simple caption and boom and the hashtag thing. Do people really search hashtags on here? I don't know. Do you really need to? I guess, but I'm not searching hashtags. I guess that's just my way of how I go about it
@bookishpodcast
Shahnaz Ahmed
@bookishpodcast · 4:51
Tawan, you asked me if I am understood equally by text or by speech. And to be very honest, I am understood probably better by text. I am a writer, and I've written a lot. And that's kind of my forte. And I communicate really well with words. So when I put words on paper or on text, I know it's just that's my strength
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@FryedOreo
Dewuan .
@FryedOreo · 4:27

The text is sacred @bookishpodcast

I like to be in the moment with the writing. I don't want to have drafts and everything like that. I just want to just text freely in that moment. I think I'm more understood in text. I think the audio is where the confusion can be because I have a sense of humor that's sarcastic. So see, that's the caveat
@Swell
Swell Team
@Swell · 0:15

Welcome to Swell!

@bookishpodcast
Shahnaz Ahmed
@bookishpodcast · 4:55
And here's my thought. Okay, what I say is what I say. This is my opinion. And thank God we still have a democracy right now. I don't know whether democracy is going, but that's a totally, totally different conversation there. But for now, September 2020, we have a democracy, and we have freedom of speech, and I choose to exercise it, and I choose to communicate with it be through text or through the swell app, through voice
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@FryedOreo
Dewuan .
@FryedOreo · 2:46

Thank you for the responses @bookishpodcast

Then I speak it and others won't get it. They won't get it, and they'll try to overanalyze what it could be. So my reputation can precede me where people think I'm trying to be cryptic with everything when really I'm just the plight of one who is always in that sarcastic realm of thought and speech. You kind of create this whole narrative for you that some people just won't be able to see past it
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@Tim
Tim Ereneta
@Tim · 3:41

🤔

It's how you get through to another person when you write and you're putting a distance between you and the other person, you are offloading knowledge and in fact, going back act to Socrates and Plato. They didn't trust writing. They thought it was a corrupt technology
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@FryedOreo
Dewuan .
@FryedOreo · 4:44

Language is everything @Tim

It'd be weird if you were in a math class and you had to speak about every math problem, you had to speak aloud and talk about how you did it. So a large part of it is writing. And it's interesting how you were saying with the Socrates and Plato
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@bookishpodcast
Shahnaz Ahmed
@bookishpodcast · 5:00

@Tim, @Dewuan.Is.Soft

And if you're going to throw all of that out for your mouth without completely filtering and all of that, I don't know. So written speech has a sense of not written. I'm sorry. Spoken speech has a sense of vulnerability to it. I think of one of my favorite movies when Harry met Sally. I think Harry says something. Or Sally, Harry's, like, okay, fine. I take it back
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@bookishpodcast
Shahnaz Ahmed
@bookishpodcast · 4:02

More thoughts

See how I talk and talk and talk. My mind wanders. If all this was written, trust me, this would be a twominute swell, a two minute swell. Instead, it's one, five minutes and here I'm going again. I mean, it don't get me wrong, Tim. I love talking and I'm for communication, but I'm balancing it out. I'm also a writer. I like both mediums
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@FryedOreo
Dewuan .
@FryedOreo · 4:45

Extroverts are valued as leaders over introverts sometimes. Lol @bookishpod

And it's also interesting that you kind of prefer a one on one. Whereas for me, I prefer an audience, a controlled audience. When I do apps like Swell or Instagram, I usually prefer to do that. And a person has to be really cool with me on a personal level to do a one on one because I could be very picky and impatient when I'm not as cool as somebody. But they hit me up in a direct message or something like that
@stephendc
Stephen dela Cruz
@stephendc · 0:32

#IntrovertsUnite #THEnewsocialmediaapp

I respectfully disagree because it's more than just a voice messaging. It's voice messaging plus a mini podcasting plus app. This is like the next generation of social media apps as a tech savvy perspective. And so
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@FryedOreo
Dewuan .
@FryedOreo · 4:24

Is Voice Apps the future or past? 🤔 @stephendc

Not many of these last for very long. There's an initial wave where a lot of users come aboard, and then there's a time where people get over the fact that they can use voice messaging, and it's not as exciting as it once was. And the responses don't come as often or whatever reason it may be, and they just drop off the map
@stephendc
Stephen dela Cruz
@stephendc · 1:08

#Voice #KindaNewMedium

Hey, day One swim as an idea has potential. But even if it fails, the idea of it, that voice as a social media app. That's pretty brand new. And there's never been like a Twitter voice before. Plus, I think voice Besides what we have like social media, medium, text, images and videos. But we never really had like an audio meaning voice as medium social media
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@FryedOreo
Dewuan .
@FryedOreo · 0:24

Thank you 🤝 @stephendc

Well, Stephen, thank you for responding back. And yes, us introverts do need to unite. And also, hopefully you enjoy Swell and all that it has to offer many voices out here. Talk about diverse range of things. Yeah. Keep on participating
@MarkR
Mark Francis Rahaman
@MarkR · 5:00

😁

I thought that was funny, but first of all, I did those tests. I did it for a course. Remember that test that we all had to do before we all did? We have to do them, but we all have to do. We all did. And we came up with these bunch of letters that told you the type of introvert or extrovert you are. And I turned out to be an extrovert
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@MarkR
Mark Francis Rahaman
@MarkR · 5:00

😭

Sometimes I'll text, but I prefer voice notes because it's quicker. It's easier now when it comes to like, I found I made more friends through Anchor and Levo, but I actually met in person, and I actually kind of know now even you and on Instagram, I can't seem to build up. You put a picture out, you get a bunch of hearts, a bunch of lights, and then somebody might say something. One or two words, not really a conversation
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@MarkR
Mark Francis Rahaman
@MarkR · 2:28

🙈

But if you really there's friends out there that I really want to speak to and he messaged me and something that he was saying to me, that definitely was a proper conversation. It's not in person, definitely on the phone, but we're messaging back and forth periodically, and then he doesn't message back. And I know if I was in the room with him, he would do this. He would say, oh, really, Mark?
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@MarkR
Mark Francis Rahaman
@MarkR · 4:11

😀

That was always really nice. It was really cool, wasn't it? To get a letter from someone. Wow. You get a letter that says Email USA, and you'd be like, wow, this letter has taken three weeks, man, to come. It's traveled. It's gone in the post box and then to a depot, and then on a plane to a sorting office, on that plane, then a postman in a van, and then he delivered it in your door
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@FryedOreo
Dewuan .
@FryedOreo · 4:54

Thank you @MarkR

You may sometimes just want to go out to the cafe to eat instead of eating at home, because eating at home is more of a thing that you can't get a lot of energy from others with. These are the examples of extra version and introversion, so I can see why, to some extent, even why you prefer even sending voice notes over text. And also I wanted to touch bases on this
@MarkR
Mark Francis Rahaman
@MarkR · 4:34
Of course, it's email and text message, not even WhatsApp it's like, how WhatsApp becomes more personal. You only WhatsApp people if you know them, even though I have a WhatsApp widget on my website. And if they want to have me, I'll WhatsApp them. Otherwise I ask permission. Is it all right if I use WhatsApp? Yeah, I get it. But the thing is, it's nice to have it makes me think that almost nobody has time for each other anymore
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@MarkR
Mark Francis Rahaman
@MarkR · 4:05
So they have a little group session. And so this is the first time since February just locked down, starting that we've had an in person session. I'm training that client over Zoom. That's fantastic. But it's the first time I've been there to train the kids. And so that means I got to see my client and her husband and actually seeing them is so much better. I've seen her on Zoom every week, twice a week. She doesn't box
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@MarkR
Mark Francis Rahaman
@MarkR · 0:26

😭

Man, I was going to tell you something funny, and I didn't tell you what it was the funny thing that I was going to tell you. I started rambling sorry about that. And now I can't remember what the funny thing is that I was going to tell tell you. I was saying at the beginning of that message, and I tell you something funny. I didn't say anything funny. So I can't remember what the funny thing is
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@FryedOreo
Dewuan .
@FryedOreo · 4:35

My life improved via Pandemic @MarkR

It's hard to explain, but anyway, yeah, I do notice that with the dating culture, there's more now of a trust in meeting with people rather than getting to know them for a long time before you decide you want to meet them generally. Anyway, people are different. Not everybody is the same, but most of the combos I've had have been of that variety. So my life has been the same with the pandemic
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@Hedy_Lamarr
Art Science Wonder
@Hedy_Lamarr · 5:00

The inner dialogue & are we all lost in translation?

So I used to communicate all the time on all the social medias. I would comment on everything. And these days I feel like if many conversations are not worth my time anymore, and it's not because I'm being a snob, it's just because again, we all have such limited time in life. And also I've realized that some bottles can't be won
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