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Why Zoom Is Terrible
In a virtual meeting, all eyes are focused on screens and ignore the environment, which "constrains the associative process underlying idea generation,".
Alison Snyder • Attention Required! | Cloudflare
Is an online relationship as honest, open and palpable as a face-to-face relationship? Does the absence of taste, touch, smell – or blood, sweat and tears for that matter – make a difference in the quality of what is experienced? Is immersion in a video game or chat room the same as playing a game on a wet grassy field, or congregating with an in-p... See more
Kirk Schneider • Tech-vexed: how digital life threatens our capacity for awe | Aeon Essays
phone calls are more intimate - voice in ear is literally closer than a video screen - video reminds you that you are ~not~ in same space + visual distraction of seeing yourself
social-media platforms now create this real distance, in part by being text-heavy. And that distance can lead you to say things or do things you’d never do in the physical world. It also lowers the bar for engagement, which means that firing off a shitty tweet is easy and people do it without thinking. But there’s so much engagement and visibility ... See more
The Atlantic • Lessons From 19 Years in the Metaverse
Videoconferencing could be great. If only we could get the thing to work properly. But for now, it’s quite often just painful.