When you are on a videocall do you also keep looking at your own thumbnail video?

netvor@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world – 173 points –

When I speak, unless I'm sharing the screen I always keep looking at myself. It's kind of strange -- it clearly does not match a real-world conversation, but somehow I can't help it.

Edit: More context -- I'm wondering if others have it, if this is something that can be explained by some "brain" thing, and also how does it affect the conversation.

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Only to check and make sure I look normal every now and then.

I hate when the person sharing their screen brings up their view of the video chat, so now I see myself full screen and I don’t want that

Yeah…it’s worth checking that your face is centralised.

Last week my wife ran a video call at work with the camera on her cleavage.