Camera on or camera off? Which do you prefer?
I’ve been told that I need to do a better job of having my camera on. My thoughts are it’s a time and place thing. If I’m speaking or presenting, sure. But just to be on the call with the camera on? Why? It almost feels like a micro aggression now. How did we ever get through decades of using the phone to talk to someone without video lol

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It's funny, when we first started doing video meetings being on camera drove me crazy. I just felt so awkward. Now I don't even care. Given a choice I'd rather leave it off, but it's like a dumb peer pressure thing to have it on. I think going back to simple phone calls with no video would be a good idea, but people are just stuck on video.

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It really is about peer pressure. Nothing more, nothing less. And it’s Wilde that we’ve all accepted that.

I prefer camera on, if I had to pick between the two. Recently, several people on my call all had tech problems and ended up calling in (off-camera, obviously). It was a pleasant change to have to go “old school” and listen to people just based on their voices. Like an old landline telephone.

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What is it that you prefer about camera on versus camera off? What’s the difference between the two?

Camera on at the beginning to make a human connection, but I turn it off because I’m eating snacks. All the time. I wouldn’t want to subject viewers to watching my pie hole slapping opening and closing. Mic off to prevent the cement mixer toilet sound of me taking meetings while on the can.

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