Video-calling can mean revealing too much about your private life

Video calling with our near and dear ones keep us connected, especially if they live far away in which case it is not possible to meet them often. Video calling is also the preferred refuge for organizations like schools and companies when the students and employees are attending classes and working from their homes respectively. But these scenarios can be a lot different.

Most people are comfortable video calling their family members and friends as they know a lot about their personal spaces but things can be different when it comes to school friends and office colleagues. Not everyone at school or office knows about our personal lives and therefore, video calling with them can be awkward and inconvenient for some people. Many people share living spaces and even their bedrooms with others, in which case, they always stay conscious when their cameras are turned on.

Not everyone is comfortable showing other people their rooms, furniture, the colors on their walls as they may think that these things portray certain notions about them in other people’s minds. If you are sharing your living space with others, you often have to move to places that are not very much accessed. Cleanliness can become a major factor in these places. A cluttered table there can make you look unprofessional. A dusty ceiling can make you look unclean. All these nuances are not present when you are at the school or office campus.

When video calls are being used more than ever before, we need to keep them private if we do not enjoy the intimacy we have with our close ones with the ones in our professional lives. If video calling is handled decently, it will make us less self-conscious and anxious.