Text Messaging and Voice Messaging

Introduction

Text messaging and voice messaging are two of the most modern forms of communication technologies that are used today. Cell phone and cell phone service providers across the globe are seeking out ways to help users improve communication technology. Even though interaction in the modern global village has become extensively reliant on social networking websites and cell phone applications in the last few years, the essential fundamentals behind text-messaging and voice messaging remains unparalleled. This can be observed from the fact that users tend to drawn the line between work and pleasure by resorting to the traditional options of voice and text messaging for everyday communication. This discussion will attempt to present a comparison of sorts in order to highlight the relevance and reliability of text messaging over voice messaging. The thesis of this discussion is that there are several advantages of text messaging compared with voice calls in different areas, such as multimedia messaging, increase privacy, save money and record keeping.

Discussion

The comparison of text messaging and voice messaging is not simply the comparison of two services - it is the comparison of two different options of communication. Voice messaging is a form of communication that allows users to communicate through the use of audio messages that users can record on their devices and send to recipients (Lenhart, Ling and Campbell 4). Text messaging is a slightly more diverse form of communication. This is because of the reason that text messaging allows users to make use of a wide variety of augmented services; which are not available in the case of voice messaging. For instance, text messaging opens out the possibilities of the cellular device in question. Modern cellular devices allow users to make use of text messaging in a manner that is similar to that of emailing. Users can send multimedia, work documents, and any other form of attachment that they prefer. In essence, the possibilities of options that can be used in cohesion with text messaging are restricted only by the capabilities of the device software. On the other hand, voice messaging does not offer advanced options and is simply nothing more than the three-step process of recording the message, contact selection and sending the message.

As the need for transparency continues to enjoy an ever increasing level of relevance, the need for maintaining records becomes equally undeniable. This factor draws a line between voice messaging and text messaging. The usage of text messaging facilitates the maintenances of records much more effectively in comparison to the record maintenances - that is not possible with voice messaging. Text messaging makes it easy to store, categorize, archive, retrieve and sort through previous text messages. The storing, categorizing, archiving, retrieving and sorting of text messages takes significantly less time and resources in comparison to voice messaging (Andersson, Foros and Steen 1235). Since voice messaging is essentially a multimedia-driven form of messaging, it demands a higher consumption of resources; thereby reducing the resource usage economy per message. In addition, the ...