Calls/videos on speakerphone are the work of Satan! AIBU?

[Florahird]

More and more people seem to be using the speakers on their smartphones when they're out and about. Why don't people put their phones to their ears?

I only do this at home in my office when I need to be able to use my keyboard (and I always shut the windows 😇)

Recent examples
Let's go on a country walk and bellow at our phones, so that the peace and quiet is ruined for everyone else...
Let's go to a bar and spend 20 mins bellowing into our phones to some poor bastard we didn't invite - they'll shout back so we can hear them...
Let's play really shit music as loud as possible on our speakerphones on a train...

You get my drift. I hate the shouting AND the tinny noise of the music/person on the other end, but AIBU?

There is no way you are being unreasonable , in any capacity.

I would be fascinated to hear any defence of this way of being.

Oh, I know what you mean. Sat drawing oak leaves and acorns, dog having a sun bathe at my feet. Round the corner comes a couple walking their dog, both on their phones, one on a call the other watching something loud!

Forest calm instantly destroyed!

Absolutely hate this!!! On holiday, at the bar. Couple at the table next to us booming into a phone having a loud FaceTime call with her mum, then her dad, then his mum, then his dad. FFS, do it in your room or far away from anyone else. Literally no one needs to hear that your plants have been watered, or that aunty Margaret had to go to the doctors for a vitamin injection

I'm more amazed by the number of people who, on closer inspection, are not actually using speakerphone, they just have the call volume up so loud that you can hear every word regardless.

It can't be doing their hearing much good!

I don’t get it because they still hold the phone up to their mouth so it’s just holding it a few inches higher. I know on tv they do this so the crew can pick up the audio, but I’m not why people decided to copy it.

Its the height of selfish unreasonable behaviour. Its basically youre not as important as me as what I want to do comes first. Pisses me right off.
In the last week. Parent sat in swimming pool cafe waiting DC swimming lesson. Watching a video really loud. He was 2 tables away and even drowned out the normal conv the next table were having.
Parent giving their child a phone to watch full volume while walking round the Zoo, why bother going if they dont want to! Ruins it for everyone else

And someone blasting out their shite music while cycling down a peaceful river bank that several other people were enjoying quietly.

Its so disrespectful to anyone else!!

Had this yesterday on the Thames Clipper boat. Covered area of the boat so felt like a cafe/restaurant) everyone enjoying the Thames view but here is a man on a video call showing off his dog. Previously had this on quiet bus/tram stops. Even at the gym! I had to silence the woman on the exercise bike next to me as she was shouting away on a video call (at the gym? FGS!).