Proper use of a speaker phone

A thing like a fashion trend that someone like you wants or should follow??

NO, fool!

It's been a thing for a decade at least OP.

It's been a douche thing to do for a while. They don't want to put the phone up to their head. It's fucking asinine.

Yes. It is only going to get worse

I have seen more and more older people with the speaker phone on but holding the phone to their ear like it is not on. It is so bizarre.

What’s the frequency, Kenneth

I blame the Real Housewives franchise.

There is no reason it should be illegal to kill these pieces of shit.

R8 some feel that way about op

9G R6. From the lamp posts and phone towers.

It’s really obnoxious. Speaker phone should only be used behind closed doors

People who use speakerphone anywhere outside their home or a closed office are complete trash. I travel a lot for work and I constantly see disgusting Don Jr's on their speakerphone as if there is no one else in the airport besides them.

I mainly see chicks doing this. Never seen a guy do it.

I wear AirPods Pro

r13 In the airports, I actually ONLY see men doing it

R5 Some old people have hearing issues.

They are trying to look cool, only it's so out of date like taking a selfie with duck lips pose.

They’re on a video call.

I honestly can’t recall the last time I heard someone talking with the speaker on. Everyone wears ear buds.

It's not a video call. They hold the phone horizontally with the screen facing up a few inches away from their mouths.

They're not looking at the screen. Their eyes are usually darting all over the place while they talk as well.

They’re all assholes and should be shot.

I blame Apple engineers for this. When the iPhone used to have a shitty single speaker at the bottom, hardly anybody did this. But a few generations ago, they drastically improved the sound by having it come from both the earpiece and a separate speaker at the bottom, creating a louder, richer, stereo sound. And we’re all being victimized by it.

R21 is Mrs. Garrett after a few cocktails

Well I think we found one of the people who engages in this behavior. R9 Exhibit A.

[QUOTE] I honestly can’t recall the last time I heard someone talking with the speaker on. Everyone wears ear buds.

Not where I live. I see (and hear) people in stores on speaker phone, out in parking lots. It's usually Hispanics doing this.

I've heard it in restaurants with table service. People will put someone on speaker with that loud tinny sound.

I believe for women it’s to stop getting your face-full of drag queen/kardashian-esque makeup all over the screen which it would if you held it to your ear… why men do it, I have no idea. They then have to shout as all the ambient noise around them is picked by the microphone when it’s held like this.

How many times have you heard full blown conversations people have in ther cars in a parking lot with the phones connected up through the car. I heard a guy talking to his I assume wife or gf telling her how perfect her tits were. This was in the target parking lot lol.

R28 I was in a local parking lot and two young adults were smoking a joint in their car and when they finally got out they had a toddler in a stroller with them. Nothing surprises me these days.

These trash need to BUY SOME FUCKING HEADPHONES. I've been tempted to walk up to some of these freaks and just give them my own gd headphones.

People who use speakerphone in public should die of gonorrhea and rot in hell.

The proximity sensor on my phone is messed up so that when I put the phone next to my ear, the screen stays on and I end up accidentally turning on the flashlight/opening Google Wallet/activating Do Not Disturb mode/you name it with my face. So I started using speaker phone for all calls, but only inside my house. Because R31 is correct.

I was sitting at a counter having breakfast a couple of days ago and a guy at the other end was having a conversation with his speakerphone on. The guy next to him ask him to take it outside.

R30 that would require them to exhibit some common sense and consideration of those around them. They have neither.