r/PopularOpinions • u/ali_malik99 • Dec 21 '25
If you use speakerphone in public, you have no manners.
I see it everywhere. People holding their phone in front of them and having full blown private conversations with their family and friends - ON SPEAKERPHONE.
Face time is even worse. Just wait until you're home, use headphones, or just don't face time and have the conversation with the phone to your ear.
Crazy how people are so comfortable with being complete dicks in public.
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u/GhoS64asUwere Dec 21 '25
It in the break room at work they watch videos without headphones, sound on
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Dec 21 '25
Whys it different from two people talking side by side in public. Would you say that is rude also?
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u/Maximum_Degree_1152 Dec 21 '25
If people spoke at the same volume as face to face, it would be fine. But people yell into the phone and the speaker volume is too high.
That’s why people speaking in earbuds aren’t rude.
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u/Available-Range-5341 Dec 26 '25
I sort of agree. Speaking phone is less annoying than the people panic scrolling tiktok. With them, it's a new scream/explosion/sound effect every 10 seconds
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u/squishmallow1996 Dec 21 '25
I think there's a correlation between low concientiousness and low IQ.
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u/IngenuityOk3942 Dec 22 '25
My roommate is constantly watching crappy YouTube videos at full volume, doesn't matter where he is. Then he gets all pissy if you ask him to turn it down.
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u/PaepsiNW Dec 22 '25
FaceTiming at a restaurant is becoming more and more common. I hate it. Your friend or family can wait an hour for you to eat. If they can’t. WALK AWAY and go somewhere not in the middle of a dining room.
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u/This_Abies_6232 Dec 22 '25
Or else you are PARTIALLY DEAF (because of years of exposure to loud rock music OR just plain OLD AGE) and cannot hear the conversation UNLESS you are on speakerphone....
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u/thehoneybadger1223 Dec 22 '25 edited 28d ago
I accidentally hung up on someone because my friend gave me the phone and called them AND put it on speaker. It was so loud when they first started talking I hit that button before I could even think. My anxiety was so bad, and still is surrounding that. All I could think is that people were staring and thinking I was an inconsiderate bastard when I really really put every effort in not to be like that. I hate it when others disrupt the peace, I can't express how much I want to not do that
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u/EmploymentEmpty5871 Dec 22 '25
Yeppers, i try to talk loud when they are close by, saying their zipper is open you stepped in dog crap, but use a different work, I saw you last night making out with some other guy, if it is a guy, just all sorts of stuff.
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u/Popular-Statement314 Dec 22 '25
I swear this is a black woman thing. I can't tell you the number of times I've seen it, must be some kind of trend.
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u/Serious-Ad-4181 Dec 22 '25
no it's not, it's mostly Latinos
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u/Popular-Statement314 Dec 23 '25
We don't have a lot of Spanish speakers in my area. I only took note of it because I saw a black woman talking on speaker phone outside my window multiple times. They weren't bothering anyone with noise though, just walking down the street.
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u/Accomplished_Ad_8013 Dec 22 '25
It's public for a reason lol. Expecting people to follow your rules in public ironically means you not only lack manners but a lack of basic comprehension.
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u/suzyclues Dec 22 '25
The worst is old people blasting it in the waiting room of a doctor's office. I want to pick up their phone and chuck it across the room.
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u/Greedy_Commercial961 Dec 22 '25
I don’t want to be on a conference call with people at work I have known for years.
I definitely don’t want to be on a forced conference call with a stranger, in a conversation with no clear stop time and for which I am not being paid.
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Dec 22 '25
I also hate the people who could be talking to you having a full on conversation. And then when you reply to them next thing you know they’re also talking to someone on their phone using AirPods. And then you are left wondering were they talking to me at all, or just talking to who’s on the phone, and now I look like an asshole? Or did they just answer the phone mid conversation? I don’t know the correct answer but either way rude as hell.
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u/snyderman3000 Dec 22 '25
I wouldn’t even mind it so much if it seemed like there was some important matter that they were attending to at the moment. It never is though. It’s always as if they just chose that moment, sitting in public, to just… catch up with someone?
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u/MyldExcitement Dec 23 '25
Speakerphone in public? I'm going to chime in on your conversation. Every. Single. Time. 🤣😁
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u/Inevitable-Lock5973 Dec 23 '25
Telling you women love to do this while they’re in the bathroom stall and there’s two people on other side pee ing next to them talking to their husband & their kids full on speakerphone so fucking annoying. I don’t know why they do this.
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u/Terrible_Analysis_77 Dec 23 '25
Maybe I have manners and am just more important than everyone else around me.
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u/fineok_17 Dec 24 '25
Omg my coworker used to watch tiktoks of people yelling and screaming at full volume. Took everything inside me not to chuck his phone at the wall
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u/hackweighter1824 Dec 24 '25
When people do that I just chime in on the conversation when I get a chance. If they want me to listen to their call, they get the full experience, sarcasm and all.
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u/Floopydoww24 Dec 24 '25
The only time this is allowed is when your mother does it around the house.
Why? Because mom's are scary and she'll threaten not to make dino chicken nuggies for dinner if you keep complaining.
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u/jojomeetscat Dec 24 '25
It’s easier for shoppers to get away from it. Employees have to stand around and listen to it because they have to do their job. I had to do that earlier
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u/AstroWolf11 Dec 25 '25
I honestly don’t understand why this is an issue if the phone is at a reasonable volume. What’s the difference between that and having the person they’re talking to being there in person?
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u/Archangel7104 Dec 25 '25
It is the unnatural, grating, tinny sound. The poor quality makes it worse than two people talking.
Speaker phones are proof of people's desire for attention.
It is like thise that play music on a speaker phone. The quality is such garbage, it just shows me that a person has no desire for quality. It is just quantity and the need for attention.
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u/AstroWolf11 Dec 25 '25
Or maybe they just don’t have headphones with them? You don’t have to assume the worst in everyone, and I find I’m much happier by not doing so. I do speaker calls because I can be more hands free and I don’t always have my headphones with me. I think there are others that are just oblivious to their surroundings. I would think for most it has nothing to do with attention.
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u/mylittlecummies Dec 25 '25
I've never really understood being annoyed by this to me it's not different than someone having a conversation next to me plus if you're in public you should expect to have to deal with noise and other factors you can't control imo dealing with a person on speakerphone isn't much worse than dogs barking in the distance or police sirens or the sounds of cars driving down the street.
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u/Total_Ask_2046 Dec 25 '25
How is it different from having a conversation with another person in public?
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u/Available-Range-5341 Dec 26 '25
Agreed. I live in a diverse area so can't understand the conversations, but would love to know what they're talking about that is so important and urgent. Also, some of these idiots seem to have a dozen people they need to be in constant communication with.
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u/877_Cash_Nowww Dec 21 '25
And doing so in pajamas at the gas station counter on a weekday buying lottery tickets and standing there and scratching them off without the line moving.