Cell phone question

[SHRED]

Why do we all raise our voices when talking on the phone?

Right now my neighbor is on his phone and it's like he's in my living room.

I've experimented and a regular to soft speaking voice directly into the phone works fine.

[Downwinder]

1. Speech volume is often predicated on hearing.

If you have trouble hearing you speak louder.

[LiberalElite]

2. Probably true but there are more deaf

people than I thought since the advent of cell phones. (speaking as one who wears hearing aids)

[Downwinder]

3. Hearing aids are made to fit the ear, cell phones are not.

[LiberalElite]

5. no kidding nt

[Smarmie Doofus]

4. Take a ride on the NYC subway.

Mother o' god.

In the old days people on the train who were screaming to other people who weren't there were easily identifiable de-insittuionalized paranoid schizophrenics.

Now they're just your garden variety, everyday subway riding, cellphone totin' moron.

In the old days it was *rare*. Now it's ubiquitous.

Bring back the old days.

[LiberalElite]

6. yep -

getting harder to tell who's crazy these days but that's not just cell phones - the repugs look normal and then - they speak...

[rurallib]

7. having been brought up with a phone piece that went right to my mouth

I sometimes think I must shout for the mic to pic up my voice a couple of inches away.

[Doc_Technical]

8. Trigger Happy TV

[Laffy Kat]

9. My ex does this on ALL phones.

Never understood.

[Fla Dem]

10. I find my voice volume goes up relative to how well I can hear the person on the other end.

If they are coming through loud and clear I talk normally, but if they are faint and I'm struggling to hear them, I guess I subconsciously assume we have a poor connection and I know I raise my voice.

[UTUSN]

11. i thought this was a tech support question

[A Simple Game]

12. WHAT? YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE TO SPEAK UP, I'M HAVING A HARD TIME HEARING YOU! n/t