Etiquette for zoom calls.

[CTyankee]

(and I'm not talking about Rudy and that other guy).

First of all, don't eat while you are on zoom. Even if your table manners are great, it just seems weird, a big face on your screen in front of you wolfing down a salad.

It is best to remember you are seen. You are in a conversation with other people. Be fully dressed, comb your hair. Be dressed.

What did I miss?

[yellerpup]

1. Don't pick your nose.

Important!

[SWBTATTReg]

2. You got 'be dressed', how about making sure that views outside the immediate ZOOM area be

safe too, that is, don't have your husband or SO go walking by in the hallway half naked, etc. Ha ha.

[CTyankee]

5. that too.

[ret5hd]

15. I KEEP telling you that wasn't ME!!!

[SWBTATTReg]

25. Ha ha hehh ha ... thanks for the laugh! Ha ha heh...

[Just_Vote_Dem]

3. You mentioned "big face"

Don't get too close to the camera because a huge face is kinda off-putting. Also assorted blemishes may become apparent, heh

[CTyankee]

11. i was sorry I didn't comb my hair better but it's been so long since I got it cut it's pretty awful.

[Just_Vote_Dem]

19. I tried cutting my own

I now have bald spots. Yeesh...

[leftieNanner]

4. Except for the Zoom calls

where we specifically choose to share a meal with our daughters! We had an awesome Mother's Day Brunch. We all ate and drank.

I have a Zoom glass of wine with my good friend frequently.

Otherwise, I like your suggestions.

[CTyankee]

8. Yes. If eveyone is having wine, I would advise not bolting it down.

for some reason, everything you do is magnified. If you are seated in a living room with friends you don't see everyone so up close, looming...

[leftieNanner]

14. LOL

I had a zoom wine with my friend last night and she mentioned that I had an awfully large glass! Guess I held it too close to the camera. Either that or it was a very large glass. Hmm.

[CTyankee]

17. I don't drink but if I did on zoom calls I would have the nicest glassware and sip gently...

[Hortensis]

6. Don't distress people by tossing a cat who comes to lounge on the keyboard with you.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

10. But do try to discourage your cats from displaying their buttholes before the camera.

[TheBlackAdder]

22. Like this?

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[SWBTATTReg]

26. Ha heh ha!

[Hortensis]

32. Lol! Yes, like that. But any cat determined to get his head

scratched is going to have to be watched also.

[Gregory Peccary]

7. Don't stand up if you are only dressed from the waist up

[FakeNoose]

9. Carefully choose your background scene

Don't let anyone see your messy kitchen, or (God forbid!) your messy bedroom. Set up the computer or laptop on an uncluttered table in your living room. Sit comfortably on your couch or loveseat, with a tidy bookcase, nice artwork, or a picture window in the background. If you can do that it won't matter that the rest of your house is a mess.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

12. Or go to Zoom preferences and install a nice background

so you don't have to clean up your actual immediate surroundings.

[Bonn1997]

31. Ugh I hate the artificial backgrounds, which always mess up the participant edges

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

33. They do, but at least the other participants won't see the empty beer bottles,

empty Chinese food cartons, your cat's butthole and you in your underwear.

[CTyankee]

13. Pose in front of whatever really nice art you have. On one recent call, I remarked to one

participant that it was a nice Botticelli print behind her. She looked a bit startled that I had sussed that out...but she ought to know I "do" art stuff...

[leftieNanner]

18. Sometimes when I am watching interviews on a news program

I find myself studying the background - books, art - behind the interviewee. It's very informative!

[frazzled]

23. That is precisely why

my spouse does not align his desk in front of the wall of books in our study while he is teaching. He says the students (undergraduates/graduates) spend all the time reading the spines of your books instead of paying attention. He has for the background the closed white doors to the closets across the room. Keeps them focused!

[CTyankee]

29. One of the regulars on MJ has 3 Matisse's behind him. He's rich so they might be originals.

That Boston guy who is a regular on MJ has an oil portrait of Babe Ruth. I kept thinking "Boston...maybe a John Singer Sargent" but alas).

[Hermit-The-Prog]

20. No more zoomin' on the throne?

[Midnightwalk]

16. A couple more

Mute when not talking. It helps the sound quality. Makes it clearer who is talking.

Take turns talking. Don’t interrupt. Come back to the person who waited.

Most people where I am leave video off. Unless it’s a way early call I’m presentable anyway. Seems more professional.

[leftieNanner]

21. These are really important

My chorus is trying to do Zoom rehearsals. It's tricky. And there's always one or two who can't figure out how to mute!

[MrsCoffee]

24. Don't pull a Toobin.

[jcgoldie]

27. Exactly...

Don't pull on your Toobin even if you think the video is off...

[CTyankee]

30. Um, why would anyone do that when they knew they were going to be on TV?

[left-of-center2012]

28. Don't show your private parts

Didn't some TV guy get in trouble for that?

[JI7]

34. It depends on who and what the call is about. There are people who eat meals together through

zoom calls.

And if it is something like a work call that will be different.

If it's just casual family and friends there doesn't have to be many rules.

[CTyankee]

35. The problem is that eating (unless you take dainty little bites of something) seems to be

magnified. I think it best not to.

[marked50]

36. Have an Orchid plant or a Pineapple in the background-n/t

[Withywindle]

37. Don't take your laptop to the toilet with you

You would think this wouldn't need to be said, and yet....


https://www.thedailybeast.com/new-jersey-school-board-member-who-made-homophobic-comments-resigns-after-mid-zoom-bathroom-visit