Did you know? (Texting and driving Versus phone calls and Voice notes)

If you read my last post you may be able to see where we're heading with this. A Few days ago I took a 30 minutes walk to a boot sale close to mine and another 30 minutes back and on my way back I witnessed three looking down on their phones texting and driving. One of which was on a major road and the others on a less busy road. A few days ago while I was in a cab, I also witnessed the cab driver go on his phone to look through pictures and text for a short while at traffic stops. The cab driver obviously scared me but for some reason I thought it was wise to keep it cool (basically playing with my life there). I did a quick check on the seat belt and braced myself incase of any impact. Safe to say nothing happened instead all I witnessed was more texting and swearing from him to other drivers on the road as his rage made the other drivers look like they couldn't drive.

While driving our brain makes a number of calculations. Always controlling your moves and keeping you alert of the other drivers and pedestrians on the road. If we were to be doing something else while driving, we'll most certainly have our brains multitasking, giving us less times to evade unplanned disasters. If you were driving focused on a country road, No distractions, whatsoever and a fox or deer does what it knows how to do best by jumping in the road and tries to kill you. There's a much higher chance for your brain to quickly think of many possibilities and offer you the best possible move depending on your capabilities in a split compared to the later. One may be able to argue that this will reduce the damages or even prevent a disaster.  

Now imagine that same scenario but the inclusion of multitasking. For the benefit of this blog and the increase in the way we use our phone everyday, we shall use Texting or making a phone calls the subject of the matter. Some people may be able to multitask perfectly but whether you like It or not doing two things at the same times means you've borrowed concentration from one activity and given it to the other activity. Even the activities with the top priorities lose some concentration benefits (hence why some girlfriends don't like you doing anything else while speaking to them😉). When you're driving and making a phone call or texting your attention is very much divided. personally I'll even say to anyone never ever to text while driving. Your eyes are literally off the road while you're doing that. You never ever know what will happen the split second you take your eyes of the road. This puts your life and the life of others in danger. Now with phones calls its a whole different ball game because you can even connect your phone to your car and speak hands free. This is say is definitely much safer than texting or holding on to the phone with hand or with one shoulder. 

This post however suggest one more communication method that might even be safer than hands free phone calls while driving. In my last post I explained that phone calls require much more attention than voice notes because while you speak, you're also scanning for words that my be altered by the second party. Hence, it requires much attention. however, with voice notes the time you're speaking is different from the time you're listening. This way you have more concentration put on your driving. With The just talk app you can even do more with voice notes. For those who don't know, Just talk is the first and only social network with a focus on Voice notes only. No texting whatsoever just audio. Many times I've explained that the uses of the app are endless and in time we would be able to share each of it's many functions in many scenarios like this one. In future just talk would be able to connect to your car's infotainment system and play out all the messages you want with voice command. You would also be able to reply to your messages and record new ones without touching your phone. Imagine being current on twitter on the go. No more looking down on your phone. Instead of walking down the road and driving with music on you could just be going down your timeline and getting all the current info about the world that's JUST TALK. I hope you've enjoyed this content so far. I'm not a writer, in fact I hate writing, but i'll do my best to keep you guys updated with more info. support my by downloading the Just Talk app for free from the google play store. 

Did you know? Online gaming and communicating - Voice notes Versus Texting and Phone calls

This post is about something I discovered over time while playing Call of duty online (COD). I'm convinced a number of us go through this also.

It's always great to game online with zero distractions, when your body mind are literally in the game, you probably have headphones on as you speak to your fellow games online. Note this could be in any online game whatsoever. Fortnite is also a great example.

I'm sure many gamers will agree to the fact that we do not like to be distracted when we're in this mode. There are some that will not bother to take one look at their phones while they're in the middle of gaming and some that may take occasional look at their phones once in a while to reply to texts or even receive and make phones calls. Or phones basically are distractions and while we continue to use them in anyway or form, we discover that our multitasking abilities is not as powerful as we thought. We discover that we begin to lose. Game death becomes very dominant especially in the case of call of duty. We know pausing a game goes a long way when we have to go on our phones while gaming tho we actually don't even like to pause. However we cannot pause the game while gaming online in most games. After a session we may choose to quickly go on our phones and reply one or two texts before the next session or do a quick phone call. That we may do but we know that's going to be rushed. Most of our valid points will not be made clear and in the case of call of duty we cannot create a new soldier or customise our player before the next match.

We may chose receive or make a phone call during this short break before the next session, but the level of distraction will be immense as we're pushing a few buttons on the game pad, thinking of what to do next, speaking and listening to the other person speak at the same time.

These Scenarios may look a bit too specific and Nagy to some but believe me it's a real thing many people face. Now how about Voice notes? Have you ever tried sending or listening to a voice notes while gaming online? I have and I must say it is the least distracting way to communicate to someone else outside the gaming world while you're gaming online. No why is this? It's faster than texting, you don't have to bother with an immediate response from the recipient. You only have to listen to what they're saying when you want to and you speak when you feel like the time is convenient enough. Now how do I Know this, is better because I have tried it and many others who have expressed the same findings. I do this most times with the Just Talk social media app to share findings and send direct messages. I use it more than I use WhatsApp cause it doesn't announce to everyone when i'm online and there's no chance i'll be reading a text to a voice note I sent earlier on the Just Talk app. with jus talk app while gaming online, there will be no reading, texting and you cannot talk and listen at the same time as you'll do on a phone call. So you're either talking or listening with voice notes compared to a phone call where you have to do both. It reduces the spread of activities you have to do while multitasking and it allows you focus more on your gaming. compared to texting you  wouldn't have to be take your face off the screen.

Now this is only one of the many scenarios Just Talk proves to be better than many other social media platform or direct messengers. I keep letting people know that the uses of this app is endless. It may seem silly to many how this is of great importance as its just gaming but this solution can be duplicated in many other scenarios. for example DRIVING. See you guys in the next one where I'll be chatting with you about the future of the app and the application to driving.

Create and Share (Voice out yout opinions, teach and learn)

For those who are unaware, JUST TALK is social network platform with a focus on voice notes only. There's no texting whatsoever. All you can say whatever you want there as long as it's with your voce. If you don't like how you sound over recordings, you can always use our voice filters to change how you sound. If you sign up on the app now and look on your timeline you'll discover that there are all sorts of posts, blogs, music, jokes, educational posts e.tc. All audio only. recorded and posted. You too can have a go. Do you have a group of friends that you want to send long messages to quickly? why not have a go on JUST TALK, all the direct messages would be gone after 24 hours. you can select one or multiple contacts to receive your message. I'll leave a tutorial video teaching you how to use the app. 

download for FREE: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.something.ganik.justtalk&hl=en_GB