Burned out on screens, people are sending lengthy voice notes instead

Monica Gross, a 30-year-old comedian in Toronto, noticed something odd happening at house parties last year. People were ducking into bathrooms, hallways and quiet corners to record and listen to voice notes — audio recordings you send like a text.

Gross quickly picked up the habit herself.

“When you have so much on your mind and you’re like, ‘This is going to be a paragraph,’ you may as well just make a voice note,” she said.