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How is that different than two people talking in person? Do you interrupt them as well?
by onethought 8mo ago
How is that different than two people talking in person? Do you interrupt them as well?
- itishappy 8mo agoYup. Online too! I have no qualms about adding my two cents to any loud public conversations.
- mezyt 8mo agoA half conversation is a lot more disruptive because your brain try to fill in the gap of information.
- cortesoft 8mo agoThis comment chain is talking about people using speakerphone, though, meaning they hear both sides of the conversation
- jomohke 8mo agoIn theory yes, but in practice they usually have the speaker up far higher than they are speaking themselves so we do only hear one side clearly. I think the high distractability is a trifecta of volume, non-naturallness of the sound (compression etc: feeling out of place in the space) and this point.
- stavros 8mo agoDo you think having your conversation on speakerphone in public is the same as talking to someone?
- sdenton4 8mo agoPeople talking to each other in person tend to modulate their voices to match the context. People talking on speakerphone tend to crank the volume and shout.
- stavros 8mo agoPlus devices are tinny and grate. Watching a video on the phone of someone speaking is much more annoying than someone speaking in person, even at the same volume.
- onethought 8mo agoI think this is the only meaningful point being made in this thread. The sound from a phone speaker is annoying, more so, than a typical in person talking. To me the solution lies somewhere in fixing that to make it sound more natural. Everyone else claiming that some how having “loud” conversation is rude, feels like they’ve fallen into some anti-social hole… we are literally the only animal to have developed complex spoken language… it’s part of our humanity.
- xp84 8mo agoNo, the loudness is a whole separate dimension. 99% of the time, there's no need to be loud in public. Not when you're talking on the phone (the microphones on a phone work great!), not when you're having a conversation with one or two other people close to you. Not when talking to Siri (etc). You can talk quietly in a place that isn't very loud, and in a place like an airport you can talk just loud enough to be clearly heard -- there's no need to shout or to project your voice. There are exceptions to this -- of course nobody expects you to worry about your volume at a concert between sets, at a sporting event, etc. But people who speak very loudly everywhere are annoying to everyone around them.
- onethought 8mo agoRight so it’s not phones at all. We are really saying: turn it down - right?
- shermantanktop 8mo agoIt’s all context. Some cultures are loud, some are quiet; some people are loud, some are quiet; some places are supposed to be loud, and so on. The people being quiet in an normally-loud place create no problems. The people being loud in a normally-quiet place are causing problems for others by violating the quiet. Loud people also tend to be oblivious to this and then get defensive when it’s pointed out. Not always - I’ve known some naturally-loud people who had figured out that being shushed meant they were in the wrong.
- lxgr 8mo agoIf their voices sounded shrill/unnaturally amplified/too loud, definitely. Listening to an annoying conversation on speakerphone is 10x more annoying than when it's face-to-face.