To ask why people insist on making calls using speakerphone when in a public place?

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I mean aside from the obvious fact that it's highly irritating and inconsiderate to those around you, I don't understand the benefit. The sound is tinny, unpleasant and distorted, and you have to wave it in front of your face instead of simply holding it to your ear as we have done since Alexander Graham Bell were a lad.

I can see the point if you're at home, say cooking, and you pop it down on the worktop, or you're having a family chat with multiple people looking at the phone at the same time, but people on their own - on the bus, for example - I just don't get it.

I also hate it when other people put me on speakerphone - I find the resulting quality of sound uncomfortably unpleasant.

I'm in Italy at the moment and it's every bit as bad here.

Please explain, as it might help me to find it less annoying.

Because it is the same.

Oh, I won’t, same as I wouldn’t let treading in dogshit ruin my day. Doesn’t mean I have to shut up and suffer other people’s inconsiderate behaviour in silence, does it?

i hate it, my MIL had it on speakerphone in the car yesterday (she wasn’t driving), it was the doctors and you could hear every word. Just why?

I’m sure people are very often moving away…

I also think, often a bit thick, too.

Works for me

Please tell me where you live so I can move there.

Do you really not care that the vast majority (as identified on this thread) see you as incredibly rude? I’m baffled that people go about life not caring about inconveniencing others.

edited to add tag @EasterBunBun11

I can't imagine knowing I was acting in a selfish manner and not thinking that was a problem

But it seems from your posts that you might be a generally not very nice person

TBH I think your attitude is absolutely so selfish and appalling, but unfortunately increasingly common.
It's not about people minding their own business. It's about you intruding on, and spoiling, other people's enjoyment of their own lives.
I find your total disregard of other people quite astounding.

Hit dogs hollering.

It’s nearly always louder than 2 people talking to each other.

I wouldn't do it in public but I do at home. Easy to hear and leaves my hands free.

That is genius. 😂

The other thing I've seen people say they've done is to start playing music or videos really loudly through their own phone so that the phone chatter or video watcher can no longer hear whatever it is they are listening to. Then look them straight in the face while they look up at you, bewildered and apalled at your behaviour, with a 'yes, and?' look on your face.

And then a passive aggressive 'Oh...you mean this is intrusive and annoying for you and you'd like me to stop? But why on earth should I? You could simply move elsewhere.'

No I’ll just put loud punk on speakerphone next to you and drown it out. If you don’t like it - well- you can move.

I live in a small town. I don’t use public transport, I only go into the office twice a week which is in the middle of nowhere so I have to drive. I go out walking a lot but I’ve certainly never noticed anyone on speakerphone.

Someone was doing this whilst waiting for the lift up to our offices the other week.

I heard her say to her colleague 'i'm speaking to my mother hahah'

🤔

Wtf. Why is she speaking to her mother on loudspeaker, as she's about to enter a lift, in a public place? Did the mother not say, FFS Annabelle, stop yapping to me and get to work?

I gave her the death stare, as one does.

Then, karma surely arrived, and she dropped her phone

Oh the schadenfreude

😂

Yes, or even worse - on video! I hate the idea that I’m wandering around a shop in the background of someone’s video call. I can understand if someone wants to show their mate something, but I’ve seen plenty who are just having a chat!

I’m in a small town in Rutland. The downside might be the lack of amenities and crap public transport links.

If they're just walking down the road I couldn't care less. Would be annoying on public transport or in a restaurant though.

Also highly personal stuff, in aldi today a woman talking about her partners children, using names, talking about health and behaviour stuff, I could have been anyone, I live in a fairly small town and could have gleaned aan awful lot of highly personal information and passed it on to anyone, are they stupid? Also effing and blinding, it's like they think there's an invisible shield around them, I absolutely hate it, I rarely see a young person without the obligatory phone stuck in front of their mouth talking absolute shite, I long for end days, and the downfall of the Internet😂 it's ruined us as people, social contract completely gone, makes a miserable existence for us all when decency and respect for others is ignored.

My phone broke years ago so I’ve used speaker to make phone calls since then, out of habit.

I wouldn’t have a conversation in a busy/ public place (unless no one around to hear conversation). I’d ring them back.

Everyone seems to do this now, the holding your phone horizontally out in front of you as you're walking along, I haven't seen anyone holding it to their ear for ages! Agree i absolutely don't want to be on speaker in public

😂😂 Yep, ain't that the truth

Because they are arseholes.