To hate FaceTime?

[StillNo]

And refuse to do it?
I hate it. It makes me feel so uncomfortable just staring into a persons face whilst they stare at you and you chat. Or that feeling like you have to perform and be so bright and smiley and neat and tidy for your mother with an entourage of family members.
Or that feeling when you know you have a scheduled FaceTime with family members and can’t think what you’ll say whilst you stare at them.
Or knowing you’ll have to shove the phone in the children’s faces so that they can also perform for uncle-sister-cousin or whoever.
Or when someone else is on FaceTime in your home and you’re skulking about trying not to get into shot.

Urgh. I know I’m going to be called unreasonable because I probably am. But please tell me I am not the only FaceTime misery?!?

Ah ok then, fair enough. My DGC liked FaceTiming me in lockdown because they could show me their toys or games they were playing, or I even bought some of the same little games as them so we could play them together whilst their mums and dads got on with their own things- they called me the remote babysitter 😂. The children also liked to set up plays and dance recitals to show me . I would have been sad to have misses out on these moments. All back to normal now thank goodness so regular visits and childcare for me and less FaceTime for their parents (which perhaps they are also relieved about, who knows 😂)

Yup I hate it and also refuse to do it. Do and his family do it all the time. They don't even look at the camera properly. Sometimes they put it down and wander off so it's just a ceing in the shot. Dp is the worst for it. He used to facetious when he worked away so he could "see us all" but would sit and look at the TV the whe time or wander about doing things. I've even had the please of a few facetious call while he's on the toilet.

I fucking hate it. It should be banned.
I just reject the call and say that my phone camera is broken.

Lovely.

When my DD has finished a night shift in intensive care and watched someone having life support switched off- those 10 minutes of calm with me sitting in the car giving her calm face time support before she drives home is vital to her.

Oh don’t be so melodramatic. Somebody else not enjoying FaceTime doesn’t affect you and your daughter - who obviously find it valuable.

I’m in a similar job, and I can’t think of anything worse than FaceTime after a tough shift.
Such is the wondrous variety of life innit.

Loathe it, avoid it....

I hate any sort of video call, so I don't accept them. Either phone me or don't bother.
@Holly60 My parents and family still live in my home country and my DH works and lives in the middle East, even they don't get to video call me in any shape or form.

I’m sure that back when the telephone was a new invention there were some people embracing the new technology, and there were others refusing to have anything to do with it and insisting that they would stick to letter writing, thank you very much, as it had always served them perfectly well in the past.

This is just the same as that. I should imagine that OP’s children will all use FaceTime as their primary way of remotely contacting people. Except mum, who they will just call. Which is fine, of course, because everyone is different and that’s a good thing.

I never video chat. Will happily talk for hours in the phone but not do that. Why not be clear you prefer other types of communication, you may find members of your family actually do too.

I agree OP, I find it really intrusive when someone tries to ambush me with an unannounced WhatsApp video call. I never pick up!

No I don’t answer FaceTime calls; just dink and ring back. In a situation where I have had to answer (eg back in the LD1 days of remote quiz teams and was in a group video call), I just put the phone facing down/the ceiling on speaker and just join in with my blank screen 😂

Even worse is when you press FaceTime by mistake! I was mortified when I was lying in bed the other day and I accidently FaceTimed an ex! To make matters worse my phone wouldn't let me hang up so I had to quickly turn it off. Thank god he didn't answer.