Who cares? Face camera brings literally nothing to the discussion. If you are having a meeting you are having the meeting about something and that something is more important to be on the screen and in focus than your stupid little face. And if the meeting is about socializing the camera makes even less sense, you are probably doing something together and that should occupy your attention and not some silly moving picture of someone's face. I don't get this new face camera trend at all. Just because you can do it doesn't mean it adds anything. Whenever I see live streams and videos with face cam it always takes more away than adds back in.
> Who cares? Face camera brings literally nothing to the discussion.
They do if you're a human with actual emotions and not the stereotypical IT guy that's basically a meaty robot "only following logic" (always the shittiest devs to work with btw no matter how good they are on the technical side).
> And if the meeting is about socializing the camera makes even less sense, you are probably doing something together and that should occupy your attention and not some silly moving picture of someone's face.
Leave it to a techy forum like HN to produce disconnected, unreal shit like this sentence.
Newsflash, mimics and gestures exist for a biological reason and are an essential part in communication. It's exactly why emojis are a thing in the first place.
This was a surprisingly hostile response overall. GP says that faces are a distraction, and you start calling them names.
> Newsflash, mimics and gestures exist for a biological reason and are an essential part in communication.
Blind people seem to do pretty well in both understanding and being understood. So I would argue that 'essential' could be replaced with 'helpful' for person-to-person interactions.
On a personal note: having a conversation with a constant 150-500s lag makes video distinctly unhelpful to my brain - in fact, it is extremely destructive to my ability to focus on the conversation at hand. And I can assure you I'm a human with emotions, [hopefully] not a 'shitty dev', and am neither a meat robot nor a disconnected techy.
Not true. There are many different ways a given statement in a fast-moving Slack channel may be interpreted. When you have a person’s facial expressions and tonal inflection as context, you can prune most of those possibilities.
Face to face communication is way better than text.
> Face camera brings literally nothing to the discussion.
I would 100% disagree on that. In my humble opinion the "mental bandwidth" for communication is about 2-10x with video+audio compared with plain audio. Because you can see how the other person(s) react etc.
