# People of Zoom **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 25, 2021, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-of-zoom/942846 "2021-05-25T01:49:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![eschrodinger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschrodinger/32/122_2.png) [@eschrodinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschrodinger)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2021, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-of-zoom/942846/21 "2021-05-26T18:51:01Z")
> [@digs](#): > > Umm, yes, we all noticed the crocodile. We just ignored it… > > …until you picked up your file folder with both hands, and we were all PM’ing each other asking how you were controlling Li’l Wally Gator there… Check user name. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2021, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-of-zoom/942846/22 "2021-05-26T19:53:09Z")
Brilliant and thorough summary in the OP. > [@LSLGuy](#): > > The trick is to have two monitors. Definitely this! The other day I was in a zoom lecture (participation from the group not required) and one person was using her phone, but clearly she had it face up in her lap with her hands on top of it. So throughout the meeting we watched her playing with, picking at, and cleaning her fingernails. ---
**Author:** ![Author\_Balk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Author\_Balk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Author_Balk)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2021, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-of-zoom/942846/23 "2021-05-26T19:58:22Z")
> [@TheGunIsMightierThanThePen](#): > > **Me** - signs into meeting, then proceeds to spend the whole time browsing the SDMB / Reddit / my phone, or reading an e-book, while trying to make it not look obvious. I read this and am responding during a Zoom meeting. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2021, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-of-zoom/942846/24 "2021-05-26T21:06:04Z")
Well done Sir! … Which gives me a silly idea … Maybe a Doper with an Zoom account could create a Zoom meeting at some future convenient hour. Then we all could join that meeting. Then we take turns showing each other our screens of the Dope while we’re posting to this thread about how we use and misuse Zoom. It’d be very “meta” as the _avant garde artistes_ used to say. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![BippityBoppityBoo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bippityboppityboo/32/5745_2.png) [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2021, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-of-zoom/942846/25 "2021-05-26T21:20:18Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > Maybe a Doper with an Zoom account could create a Zoom meeting at some future convenient hour. Then we all could join that meeting. Then we take turns showing each other our screens of the Dope while we’re posting to this thread about how we use and misuse Zoom. Maybe the Doper who suggests it should _get_ a Zoom account and set it up. I’m game. Maybe with rolling time Zones so Eastern Coastal scum aren’t kept up too late for Midwestern or west coast participants. Again, pants optional. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2021, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-of-zoom/942846/26 "2021-05-29T05:35:18Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > Being retired and lacking a camera and microphone on my computer, I’ve never experienced any of this. Most I ever managed was one-on-one chat, once with my doctor and a couple of times with my granddaughter. Whew! Heh. When the writer’s club started Zoom meetings, one person complained that she was having trouble seeing anything or being heard. She had a desktop. I helped a 91 year old get started on Zoom just today. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2021, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-of-zoom/942846/27 "2021-05-29T12:57:31Z")
> [@Voyager](#): > > When the writer’s club started Zoom meetings, one person complained that she was having trouble seeing anything or being heard. > She had a desktop. Please explain this… How did she complain? On the phone? In person? What do you mean “She had a desktop”? ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2021, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-of-zoom/942846/28 "2021-05-29T14:11:01Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > What do you mean “She had a desktop”? Probably meaning an old-fashioned desktop PC. One lacking a camera, a microphone, and maybe even speakers. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-of-zoom/942846.md?page=1)