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Indian parents often surprise us with how quickly they get excited about new phone features and one recent story proves it perfectly. An individual shared his mother’s obsession with WhatsApp voice notes and it has become her favourite way to communicate. She sends long voice messages for the simplest things, from reminding him to bring milk to asking if he wants tea, even when he’s sitting just a few feet away.
Texts and calls have completely disappeared from her routine. Every small update, like a grocery list or casual chat, now arrives as a voice note. The user joked that his mother’s recordings are more entertaining than social media reels, as they’re filled with background sounds, funny pauses and dad’s random comments.
Mom’s New Obsession
With Voice Notes
Taking to Reddit, the user wrote, “My mom discovered WhatsApp voice messages about a month ago, and honestly, my life hasn’t been the same since. She sends a full 2-minute voice note just to say, ‘Bring milk on your way home.’ Not a text. Not a call. A voice message with full background commentary about how we’re out of milk, what happened to the last packet and why I should remember these things myself. Yesterday was the peak. I was sitting literally in the same room as her, maybe 10 feet away and it’s a voice message from mom asking, ‘Chai peeyega?’ I looked up at her and she’s just casually sitting there like this is completely normal behaviour.”
It’s like she forgot how to type. Everything is a voice message now. Grocery list? Voice message. Asking what time I’ll be home? Voice message. Telling me food is ready when I’m upstairs? You guessed it, voice message. But honestly, some of her voice notes are pure comedy. The way she pauses mid sentence, the random background noises, dad yelling something in the background. It’s better entertainment than half the reels I watch,” the individual added.
My mom sends voice messages for everything now. EVERYTHING.
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Internet Reacts With Funny And Sweet Comments
Reacting to the post, a user wrote, “Tell her about video notes. Every day new podcast episode.”
Another shared, “You’ll be grateful for those someday.”
“I lost my mom recently and she used to send voice messages to everyone. Now I have all the saved voice messages which I listen to whenever I think of her,” a comment read.
An individual stated, “These voice notes will be priceless in the indefinite future.”
Another mentioned, “My mom is 70% voice notes and 20% YouTube vids related to health and 10% text.”
One more commented that the mother will stay obsessed with sending voice notes until she discovers another new feature. They jokingly suggested that he can tell her that long voice notes use a lot of mobile data, so she might stop sending so many once she realises it.
