Voice notes come to Instagram to close the millennial circle
One of the most typical characteristics of millenials, when the conversion to the text in conversations seemed total, are the voice notes. Each time (for a few years now) it is more common to see ** a young person talking to him or her and listening to the smartphone as if it were a walkie-talkie. It is a function so used in WhatsApp or Telegram that it has even received specific news such as the "candadito" so as not to have to press permanently.
Instagram, which is the social network par excellence among young people, and whose set of features includes everything related to the culture of the ephemeral and the modern, such as the Stories or the vertical video of Instagram TV, lacked the voice notes, and the company has just announced that they will reach Instagram Direct.
Voice notes on Instagram, but only in private
It is not, therefore, that now users can send voice notes in the Feed as publications or comments, but everything is focused on the private scope of the application, which recently received the function of seeing which users were active . Thus, although it will potentially have a very high usage ratio among young people, the good news is that for those who do not support voice notes, Instagram will not experience a disruption.
And it is not a minor issue, since the voice notes are not always comfortable or convenient, because in many cases they come to demand a constant and intrusive attention during the time the audios last. Waiting for the next step in notes, which may be the transcription with automatic learning, that the most important part of the application does not contain the notes is remarkable. Twitter has been criticized for including something like that, although as a measure of accessibility has its good part.
Sometimes you just want to talk, without being on camera. We're launching audio-only broadcasting, so your followers can hear, but not see you.
Despite not being the most important instant messaging service of Facebook, whose podium occupy above WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger, the company has never stopped trying to make Instagram Direct a complete messaging tool that works beyond a specific message. With such established actors it is not easy to achieve it. Instagram is the sad face of someone who has achieved engagement in that sense, as opposed to the sad one of a Twitter that never managed to position Direct Messages as a strong option.
Instagram, which is the social network par excellence among young people, and whose set of features includes everything related to the culture of the ephemeral and the modern, such as the Stories or the vertical video of Instagram TV, lacked the voice notes, and the company has just announced that they will reach Instagram Direct.
Voice notes on Instagram, but only in private
It is not, therefore, that now users can send voice notes in the Feed as publications or comments, but everything is focused on the private scope of the application, which recently received the function of seeing which users were active . Thus, although it will potentially have a very high usage ratio among young people, the good news is that for those who do not support voice notes, Instagram will not experience a disruption.
And it is not a minor issue, since the voice notes are not always comfortable or convenient, because in many cases they come to demand a constant and intrusive attention during the time the audios last. Waiting for the next step in notes, which may be the transcription with automatic learning, that the most important part of the application does not contain the notes is remarkable. Twitter has been criticized for including something like that, although as a measure of accessibility has its good part.
Sometimes you just want to talk, without being on camera. We're launching audio-only broadcasting, so your followers can hear, but not see you.
Despite not being the most important instant messaging service of Facebook, whose podium occupy above WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger, the company has never stopped trying to make Instagram Direct a complete messaging tool that works beyond a specific message. With such established actors it is not easy to achieve it. Instagram is the sad face of someone who has achieved engagement in that sense, as opposed to the sad one of a Twitter that never managed to position Direct Messages as a strong option.
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