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The reason Zoom calls drain your energy
Why Zoom Calls Drain Us
- Video calls require more focus than face-to-face chatting. We have to pay more attention to process the non-verbal cues like tone, pitch, body language and facial expressions. There is also a feeling of dissonance when the minds are together but the bodies are physically apart.
- One finds it harder to relax in a conversation, as even a slight delay (silence) makes us feel that the other person is not friendly or focused enough.
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Why Zoom Calls Drain Us
- Video calls require more focus than face-to-face chatting. We have to pay more attention to process the non-verbal cues like tone, pitch, body language and facial expressions. There is also a feeling of dissonance when the minds are together but the bodies are physically apart.
- One finds it harder to relax in a conversation, as even a slight delay (silence) makes us feel that the other person is not friendly or focused enough.
Everything From A Tiny Screen
Video Calling is being used for studying, dating, talking to your parents and for work purposes, leading to a new kind of exhaustion of doing everything from your laptop or smartphone screen. Add to this our being confined in a tiny space (like a room) most of the time.
Relaxing Activity Vs Performance
If video calling and catching up with friends was a relaxing activity, where you can just be yourself, you would not feel fatigued.
What we have here is an added pressure to perform virtually among so many other participants, each vying for attention and validation.
Reducing Zoom Fatigue
- Try to limit video calls to those which are necessary.
- Turning on the camera should be optional, and not mandatory.
- Put the screen on the side, giving an illusion of being in an adjoining room.
- Share important information via email and file attachments, making video calls shorter.
- Make sure you stretch, do some exercise and keep yourself hydrated.
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- A typical video call demands more intense focus on the words, as most other body language cues are missing. If somebody is really dependent on those non-verbal cues, it can be very draining not to have them.
- Multi-person screens magnify this exhausting problem, as it challenges the brain’s central vision, forcing it to decode too many people at once.
If you view a single speaker at a time, you can’t recognize how non-active participants are behaving - something you otherwise would pick up with a peripheral vision.
For some people, the prolonged split in attention can overwhelm the brain by unfamiliar excess stimuli while being hyper-focused on searching for non-verbal cues that it can’t find.
A traditional phone call may be less taxing on the brain because it delivers on a promise to convey only a voice.
Zoom boon
For those who have neurological difficulty with in-person communication, such as those with autism, the shift to video calls has been positive.
Video calls lead to fewer people talking and less filler conversation, which relieves tension and anxiety felt by autistic individuals.
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Virtual face-to-face conversations in Google Hangouts, Facetime or Zoom do not carry the relaxed feeling of actual meetings, and instead feel like official, ‘work’ meetings with added stress and an inability to read any body language. It is clear that video chats and phone calls cannot replace a hug and a shared meal in a cozy cafe.
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