Why do people FaceTime in public?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:HILARIOUS example of a person being told to be quiet while doing a "live feed" in public (which is just as obnoxious as facetime, imo) at 3:36. "I don't choose to be part of this conversation." I love that man and his boldness.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCpI-dKC6M8

Wtf is this narcissism run amok?

No idea. Who are these people and why do they think everyone wants to hear them babble?

[Anonymous]

I work on a college campus and it's rampant there among younger people. I often see students walking and talking to people, picking up the phone to make a quick call or ask a roommate to bring them a sweatshirt or something via FaceTime, and it's also very common to see students studying or sitting or eating with the phone propped up with someone else sitting there, often in silence - kind of like being in the same room where you're just "being" and not really talking.

It's nice and it's odd at the same time, and while it isn't always disruptive it can be.

[Anonymous]

^^ PP again. I think that at least with the college students I see, it's not a narcissistic thing at all. I think that they don't really think about it, and if they did it would be more like just hanging out with someone in real time. For example, you'd think nothing of two people at the next table over having a conversation, which is what they are doing, except that one of the people is not physically there.

It's a total generational/tech adapter difference. Times are changing.

[Anonymous]

Can't stand when people do this.

[Anonymous]

Clearly no one's comfort matters more than yours.

Anonymous wrote:Nope. Its the new phone. It's happening. Just as if we were both there talking at the table next to you. I never FaceTime at a higher volume than that. My opportunities to catch up with relatives and soldiers doesn't revolve around your comfort.