it sounds weird, but there is a reason why i prefer written over spoken communication. it helps me remember what we talked about. very often i need to find some

it sounds weird, but there is a reason why i prefer written over spoken communication. it helps me remember what we talked about. very often i need to find some detail that i remember me and my wife discussed. if we did in in text chat, i can often find it. if it was a phone call it is lost forever (audio recordings are useless until the tech has evolved to make them searchable) yes, it is a tradeoff. most things don't need to be recorded. but what we like to record and what not varies from person to person. many chat apps allow you to temporarily turn on automatic deletion of messages, and some allow you to delete old messages. it would actually be good to do from time to time to weed out the actually irrelevant stuff but it takes effort to do that. the key feature though for me is that recording messages helps me resume an interrupted conversation. and when you get older and start loosing friends as they pass away, these are also memories of the good times that you have had together. what we need is better laws to protect our privacy, that say don't allow old messages to be used regardless if they are stored or not, so that we don't run into the current situation that those who were so dumb to not delete the messages are at a disadvantage.