Comments on: Open Thread: FaceTime and the Need for Mobile Video Chat Etiquette

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By: alan wilensky

alan wilensky — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 03:55:00 +0000

I am often asked to video conference over Skype for business, and my setup with the 27 iMac is very good. But, I do not accept impromptu video meeting requests. Why? Unless there is a good reason to see the other person, I want to keep the conversation on business, and the voice is more than adequate. If there is a high level negotiation with a client, contract, etc., then I will prepare the background and myself for the video conference – you can imagine, make sure the beard is trimmed, wearing a good shirt – I mean I dress ok at my home office, I don’t work in my PJs, and so on, but I will prep for a video conference by checking myself for boogers.

By: FTM

FTM — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 14:38:26 +0000

Hmm..I think Apple has been very clever in naming it “facetime” ;-)

By: Oliver

Oliver — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 01:59:32 +0000

@James – what on earth are you talking about? I am reading this post on NewTeeVee and I found it via the JKOnTHeRun RSS feed. WhIch of those is the Apple site you’re referring to?

By: Charles

Charles — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 00:43:54 +0000

icanhazcheezburger’s new site: facetime “photo bomb”

By: James

James — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 21:50:35 +0000

Brandon, this is an Apple site, not a Samsung, Google, China, or any other site — which is why the focus is on Apple. Also, while Apple certainly didn’t invent video chat, they will be the ones credited with making it mainstream, much like they did with USB. They didn’t invent USB, but it wasn’t until they included it on the uber-popular original iMac that USB devices and connections began showing up everywhere.

By: MacDaddy

MacDaddy — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 18:53:04 +0000

Are you serious? Why not use other phones? Uhm, maybe because this is a story about FACETIME! Facetime isn’t on any other devices but the iPhone…

By: Todd

Todd — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 18:33:58 +0000

After being in use for 40 years ( forty years ) people still don’t observe any email etiquette!

“…Reply to sender with carbon copy to entire 1,000 person mailing list?”

clicks ‘Yes’

By: Hamranhansenhansen

Hamranhansenhansen — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 17:51:39 +0000

This is all true, but possibly even more important than FaceTime phone etiquette is face time phone etiquette. By that I mean, when you are actually physically face to face with someone, lose the phone altogether. Turn off the ringers and noisemakers and put it away and catch up with it later. We get little enough actual eye contact as it is.

By: Brandon

Brandon — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 17:15:08 +0000

I absolutely agree with everything you’ve written here. Etiquette is unfortunately usually the last thing on people’s mind these days.

I was however interested why you don’t just use mobile phones in general as opposed to the iPhone in your discussion. The EVO was able to do video chat before the iPhone, and it also does it over Sprints network as opposed to being limited to only WiFi. The forthcoming Samsung Epic (Galaxy S) also does video chat over the network. In general; mobile video chat has been around for many years in places like Japan, China, etc. I just think you’re giving Apple a bit too much credit where they really don’t deserve any. Just sayin. /rant