I'll tell you what's way more fucked than video call. Non-video group discussions, like clubhouse and twitter spaces etc. vocal group chats with no video. I never realized how shit people's speech cadence is and how they're unable to get to the point until that shit. It's a miserable thing to experience.
Video calls are cool if I want to see my kid and wife, other than that they're awkward and miserable because then you can't just put the phone to your ear, you have to hold it in a way that forces it to be the primary thing you're doing. If it were a speaker call you could just put it on the table but with this crumb shit you have to prop it up or hold it in a very deliberate way. But I do call ppl with messenger more than the phone (w/o video).
Perfect example of new technology not solving a god damn fuckin problem. The amount of people that will call on a video applicable app but keep the video off tells you what you need to know as far as this being an 'improvement'. They just do stuff 'because it's doable' rather than seeing if there's a demand or need. Next they'll have toilets that stream your ass on spotify because '..digital'. Rza really fucked up ushering in all of this.
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if you think about normal speech, humans spend little time looking at each other's faces. I read somewhere that if someone looks at you for over 7 uninterrupted seconds they have a strong feeling about you and either want to kill/hurt you are fuck you. It's literally a sign of aggression to have to look at someone's face for a long ass time. but the ppl that make these apps aren't 'social' and don't factor normal human behavior so the whole video chat ends up being awkward and pause ridden. The America custom of eye contact is rare. We're the only mammals that see it as a good thing. This is all of the bad aspects of that same issue with a weird distance that makes it impossible to factor context in the convo
Imagine picking up the call and this guy's just staring at you for 15 mins
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