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You phone shouldn't make any sound whatsoever when you're in public period.
It can ring and give notifications, as long as they aren't set to something obnoxious.
It becomes obnoxious no matter what it is when they're having a text conversation with someone and it's going off constantly
I'm pretty old but do you know the Woody Woodpecker laugh? I used to work with a girl back before smartphones that had that as her text notification. It was the whole thing which takes like five seconds so sometimes it was just that fucking sound almost non-stop. Here it is, cursed fucking creation.
That sounds like something they would do to prisoners in Guantanamo.
I can't imagine the ptsd you have
i couldn't even make it through the 8 second video. i cant begin to imagine what you must have gone through. my heart goes out to you
It's kind of amazing that I haven't really thought about Woody Woodpecker since watching the cartoons as a kid and the animation doesn't look familiar at all other than yeah that's the right colors, but I could hear the laugh in my head immediately on seeing the name, without having to play the audio.
For me, if I’m actually having a conversation in public, I’ll silence my phone.
Right, but they were suggesting it should be silenced at all times, by default, even for the very first notification.
Put your phone on vibrate, you'll survive.
That's what my phone is set at 24/7, the only time it makes a noise from the speakers is when the alarm goes off in the morning.
I have my phone set so it sets itself to vibrate when it disconnects from my home WiFi. It turns the notification sounds back up when it reconnects. I've never had to worry about it again.
That's the way
Well they should silence it at that point because obviously they're paying enough attention to it and expecting responses, so they should be waiting for the vibrate if not looking at it directly.
But people don't need to have their phone silenced at all times while in public, they just need to be attentive enough to answer and silence it. I frequently don't even feel the vibration.
Unprompted, I will tell you the most obnoxious ring tone I have ever heard. It was on the subway and a voice was suddenly loudly proclaiming: "Warning! Warning! The owner of this phone is a self-confessed binge drinker" until some douchebag picked up the call.
That is daft, but it does tickle me when someone's ringtone is set to that "warning! It's the wife!" one.
It's probably obnoxious in real life but I really wanna do the ZZ Top ringtone from Bad Monkey
The worst part is that it's just normalized enough that you can't really call it out.
that has not stopped me from calling it out. in my experience, most people seem to be unaware that it bothers other people (or at least they claim to be unaware).
that said, a decent number of them are unwilling to change their behavior after being told that it does bother people.
100%. Public areas need enough clear airspace for emergency announcements as it puts everyone in danger.