"and while it doesn't tell me exactly where they are" You can (voluntarily) share this with the click of a button, at least on Android (paperclip->Location), w

"and while it doesn't tell me exactly where they are" You can (voluntarily) share this with the click of a button, at least on Android (paperclip->Location), which I think is the best solution. But anyway, I agree. Sounds a lot like maybe a new feature or two to Hangouts (the long term rescind feature sounds nice, and Hangouts doesn't have an easy way to record an audio clip from within the app and attach it the way you would an photo, but I'm not convinced that is as important as Ray Ozzie thinks it is, and even if it is it would be trivial to implement on top of what already exists), not some grand new product market, especially when it doesn't even include video support yet while Hangouts does. If you buy into his theory of there being something "lost" with text, surely a lot is also lost when you lose body language with just voice.