• corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
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    2 months ago

    Take your phone off speaker phone.

    Kids and idiots base their phone usage off vapid camera-ready idiots on reality TV whose entire usage is to play for an audience. They don’t understand that holding their phone like a slice of pizza

    • is against the design
    • makes it harder to hear
    • ruins the noise cancellation
    • looks absolutely ridiculous
    • may be delicious. Try it!

    And so it’s “monkey see, monkey do.”

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      2 months ago

      I’m Norwegian, and travelled to the US in 2004. I remember people on the bus using their phones like this. On public transport. Never saw that in Norway back then.

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      2 months ago

      The harder to hear might be true for the people they are talking to. But for the one holding the phone that we are talking about it is actually easier because of how the speakers are aimed. Personal experience on this.

      But if they would take it off speakerphone then the speaker is at their ear.