Didn't expect to see memes making fun of mental illnesses on Lemmy
Bro. You almost gave me a heart attack for a second there, making me think I somehow posted something VERY different.
LOL new prank just dropped
Don’t give them a heart attack. They’re like 60% of Lemmy’s content.
Imagine meeting the love of your life and then finding out they talk on the phone ~~like this~~
Imagine meeting the love of your life and then finding out they talk ~~on the phone~~
Imagine meeting the love of your life ~~and then finding out they talk on the phone~~
Imagine meeting the love of you~~r life~~
I call this "pizza phone" because it looks like they are eating their phone like a slice of pizza.
I see a lot of kids/teens walking around doing this.
I think perhaps they don’t know how phones work as phones.
A couple weeks ago I saw a high schooler asking friends to grab his phone, but they couldn't hear him. So he mimed typing with his thumbs.
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How did we lose holding a handset to your ear as the pantomime for phone???? I've heard Nirvana on the classic rock station and it didn't make me feel as old as this.
I do this, here's why. Also I'm 23
I don't like getting oils and sweat on my screen. I also don't like putting my dirty screen on my face.
I can still talk to someone and do other stuff on my phone. If I want privacy or I'm in an area where speakerphone would be annoying then fine I'll use it the old way, but generally I have headphones to bridge that gap anyways.
Yeah, I'm with you. Speaker mode is much more comfortable. But I do have some common courtesy while in public though. Nobody needs to be forced to hear your conversation.
Man bun and v-neck weren't helping the case.
Damn. Are the cishets still going on about gatekeeping man buns and v-necks? I thought that tiresome rhetoric died off around 2010.
ITT a bunch of fucking losers claiming to have hearing problems and would rather be a dick in public than invest in proper headphones.
Note on the claim part, I don't believe a fraction of the assholes here, just trying to justify their assholery. People with legitimate hearing issues tend to accept the support technology that's readily available these days. I spend quite a bit of time around folks who are actually hard of hearing.
Even if they do have hearing issues, a phone pressed against your ear will sound much louder with much greater clarity compared to the speaker mode.
Wow I almost feel singled out by this. But I presume that this is supposed to be in public. Which by every account is a dick move.
However I do this in private, I.e. in my car or at home. And the reason I do it is because I can't hear a call without using the speaker phone. Hearing issues aren't fun.
However the easier solution is headphones, but calls over Bluetooth can make things worse, from battery life to sound quality.
Wired headphones are the preferable solution to this but we all know what happened to those.
TL:DR I do this because of my hearing issues. In public this is a dick move, but headphones aren't the solution they use to be.
but headphones aren’t the solution they use to be.
Not true. There’s air conduction, bone conduction(which is the same technology for people who actually do experience hearing loss), wired, non wired, in ear, over ear, on ear, noise cancelling and these are not that expensive that you can get it online so it’s super accessible.
It’s not the early 2000s anymore where you only get buds or on ear or whatever apple bullshit comes with your phone.
In my defense, I've had a phone hang up or do weird stuff because it couldn't tell the difference between a fingertip and an earlobe way too many times. Like, a shitty phone has nearly altered the course of my life because of this, and that's not okay.
You should be able to hit the power button while on a call and turn off the display, then put it to your ear. Much less effort than the people around you have to make to keep from slapping you
It's not just shitty phones, nice phones have this problem too.
I cannot for the life of me find the earpiece on new phones, my face dials and hangs up and does all kinds of weird shit if I try to have a conversation on the phone the way you're supposed to.
It's not my fault touch screens suck.
That's not the normal way to talk when you are alone in the room?
Guess no one will find out because I am alone.
I do this when I'm on the phone and alone. Or I set my phone on my tits. But only when I am isolated. I don't want to bother people with my phone on speaker.
I have to do this when my grandma calls. Not because I have loudspeaker mode on, but because SHE has, but still talks with it against her face so she comes out extremely loudly on my end.
Maybe I should be single, but this is my preferred way to speak on the phone when I'm not bothering anyone, and the enviornment is relatively quiet. It frees up my hands for a better range of motion if I'm doing anything else, and it removes my common accidental hang-up when my ear or face touches the display.
If the environment becomes noisy or people are around, I of course switch back to old-school DJ-gesture phone call mode.
I'm pleased I don't know anyone who's this shallow
but this is correct, that's where the mic is, it's more comfortable than holding it to my ear [especially the modern smartphone shape], and i like knowing i'm talking straight into the mic
I like knowing i'm talking straight into the mic
The microphone was not designed to be talked straight into it like that. It was designed for someone to hold the phone like a human. The mics are designed to help pick up audio from the direction of your mouth when your phone is in the normal position, not the one you're using. By attempting to maximize efficiency and talk into it, you're actively making it worse for the other people you're talking to.
You do know that when you switch to speaker phone it’s often switching the microphone setup, right? Like it’s going from earpiece to conference call setup… it’s not like it stays the same and blows out the other end. We have the technology to control noise input and background. This was ~ maybe ~ true of older phones, but it certainly isn’t today.
I talk on the phone like this due to being a walker & talker. So I pull up my work systems on my phone to update notes and email people as I’m talking. If that were the case the dozens of phone calls a day would tell me I’m way too loud.
Yes, and blasting it on speaker mode is a whole different problem. One that mainly ends with that person being an inconsiderate asshole and forcing everyone in the vicinity to listen to their conversation.
It's just 'Main Character Syndrome' energy and needs to fuck off.
You've heard that people that sound uncomfortably loud, garbled and distorted, barely comprehensible, with intermittent popping and hisses over the phone? That's you.
That's not really how smol condenser mics work, nor how modern (and also multi-mic) phones process your sound. You don't even sound better.
That's just the same thinking as old people shouting in their (digital) phone so the other person 'can hear them better'.
What is worse is when people are wearing a Bluetooth headset and still holds their phone like this.
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