To detest FaceTime.

[Happyhippy45]

It makes me feel so uncomfortable. I HATE seeing myself on the screen and feel really self conscious.
In real life I'll happily chat to people without feeling self conscious but as soon as I hear that FaceTime alert I swear I start blushing.
It's always my inlaws that FaceTime me. am wondering if that's got something to do with it
My own family feel the same way about it I do.
Does anyone else get like this and are there any ways around it?

I've never used it! (It's an Apple-product, isn't it? But I've never used Google Hangout either.)

Is this dislike of being filmed an age-thing do you think? Young people doesn't seem to mind much.

Ducking video interviews .... now they are horrible

I hate any form of video chat myself, or even audio that doesn't involve holding a phone and speaking into it i.e. I hate speaking to a laptop etc. on Skype e.g. and hearing the other person's voice coming through the speakers rather than a telephone earpiece. I'm such a Luddite, I know. DH is on a two week work trip in Germany atm. Communication is short mobile calls and text messages on FB Messenger, or bust.

Does anyone get it to work. I cant get skype to work now and tried facetime and no luck there. Using ipad air.

YANBU! I hate it too but now I have lo everyone wants to FT instead of call so that they can see him! If I phone them and they hear him I'm the background they say 'I'm going to hang up and FT you so I can see xxxx!' And in the minute between calls I find myself scrabbling for a hairbrush (for me and lo!!!).

I hardly ever use it, and don't understand why people Facetime while they're out and about. I see it quite a lot and it just seems bloody odd.

I saw a woman Facetiming in a cafe the other day - she pointed the phone at the waiter when he brought over the drink and he had to sort of awkwardly wave, it was quite amusing.

I love being able to see family who live far away but agree about unflattering bit. FaceTime needs a filter so you don't look so horrific when people call early and you've had no sleep. Also agree it's much less private than a phone call.

YANBU. It's rubbish.

One of the good things about voice only communication is I can speak to somebody at the drop of a hat when my face looks like a baboon's arse. Having to find clothes and debaboonbum face/hair for what is basically a phone call is very annoying.

Can't you just delete the app?

I love it - it's changed our lives as we are deaf. I can lipread people easily on FaceTime instead of struggling on the phone. MIL rings once a week to see the children and although they see her 3-4 times a year they know who she is and are instantly comfortable with her. It's amazing.

I angle it so that my face does not show. I know it defeats the object a bit, but I can see them without them seeing me. I find it really intrusive and fortunately it is only rarely used.

I love it for friends who live OS/interstate, and it and Skype are very useful for a lot of work calls where it helps to see a persons body language.

What I don't get is why people I see regularly want to use it. If they have something they want to show me thencool, but don't Face Time me just to ask if we're still good for coffee tomorrow.

I bloody love what's app. Now that's good thing. FaceTime can do one

Love it. My best friend had to mo evaway abd it's save my sanity!

I love video calls, I get to see the other person face to face and I like looking at myself too. I actually spend most of the call looking at myself, I look much better with my face moving than in still photos,
on video I can see why people find me attractive

If you don't want the video you can do FaceTime audio. Just tell whoever calls that your internet is rubbish and that you'll call them on FT audio call. Still calls using data so you can call all over the world l, but no video if you don't want. Also if your internet IS rubbish it makes the call quality much better.

I fucking hate it as I feel like it's an invasion of privacy, but it's lovely for my dh as he is regularly able to see his family who live far away.

My plumber was able to mend my boiler by telling me what to do via FaceTime. Aside from that, have used it once and really not keen.

If you are uncomfortable using the video, you can always just use audio.

I love FaceTime and Skype since I have use them in very creative ways. I had somebody teach me how to bake cookies over skype and many other things. I have friends on different continents and family too so I really like FaceTime and Skype and Facebook live.

DH and I travel quite a bit, live away from our families and have siblings who have done / do the same. I think it's lovely to stay in touch through facetime or skype or other video chats.

froyo it's how my inlaws stay in touch with my husband......and me but it's always on my phone/iPad as his is an android.....as soon as it rings I hand it to him.....but he always passes me over to speak to them. At least if they just phone I can run away without them seeing me!

lightgreen that had never crossed my mind.....awesome that you can communicate easier with FaceTime

Ive switched mine off. A partner using it would send me mad.

Turn the camera off and say "oh, my connection must be bad at the moment. Not to worry, carry on"

iPhone cameras are wide angle, so they do distort the face. Putting the phone on the table, for example, propped up with something helps. When your face is too close to the camera you can and will look ugly