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It's one step in building personal connections with your co-workers. It's one thing to get into a fight with somebody who is only a username on your screen. It'
by wildmanx 5y ago
It's one step in building personal connections with your co-workers. It's one thing to get into a fight with somebody who is only a username on your screen. It's very different if you get to know your co-workers, understand how they think, how they work, what their culture is, their way of expressing things. Seeing a face is one of the first steps in this process.
Much of the online ranting (and frankly, hate), including in this thread, would be avoided if people would just spend some time getting to know the human beings behind the text on their screen. The very thing that has been called "infantilizing" somewhere else in this thread.
- HWR_14 5y agoI think Facebook and the various other forums that attempted a realname policy disprove your claim that civility is connected to real world identity. I do agree that meeting your coworkers and talking to them can indeed have very beneficial effects. I just don't see how a picture of a face helps that in any way. That's the connection that just doesn't seem to exist. It seems like people who want video on on Zoom calls. There are very few cases where that's a bonus. And yes, I agree that the people who called getting to know their peers via an onboarding process that was probably somewhat corny "infantilizing" seem way offbase.