Comment on Explain it like I'm 5: Why is everyone on speakerphone in public?
HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 2 days ago
Probably how children were raised to speak to people over the phone.
Until the iPhone, I can’t think of too many personal phones that could put the call on speaker. So, if families with kids called other family, it was usually a form of one on one calls where people handed the phone off between each other. Nowadays, the default option is to put the call on speaker so everyone can hear everyone else. That set an expectation to where calls are on speaker unless there is a need for privacy.
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 2 days ago
I’m pretty sure Nokias could also do it on the speaker, at least some of them.
But also I have calls on the speaker all the time for a different reason myself: I can walk around and do things with both hands. Sometimes I’ll cook on a call, etc. But what kind of a monster does that in public?
HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 2 days ago
I’m taking about default behavior. 20+ years ago, the default phone call was pushing a piece of technology against an ear an next to your mouth. That hasn’t been the default for a while.