“It's almost like you're emoting more because you're just a little box on a screen,” Eichler-Levine says. “I’m just so tired.”
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Zoom fatigue, though this exhaustion also applies if you’re using ...
Google Hangouts, Skype, FaceTime, or any other video-calling interface
The ... (unparalleled) explosion of their use in response to the pandemic has launched an unofficial social experiment, showing at a population scale what’s always been true: virtual ... (relationships) can be extremely hard on the brain.
unprecedented / interactions
Give examples: Humans communicate even when they’re quiet.
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These cues help paint a ... (comprehensive) picture of what is being ... (expressed) and what’s expected in response from the listener.
holistic / conveyed
However, a typical video call impairs these ingrained (synonym?) abilities, and requires sustained and intense attention to words instead.
intrinsic, inborn, built-in
Multi-person screens ... (intensify) this exhausting problem.
magnify
Think of how hard it would be to cook and read at the same time. That's the kind of multi-tasking your brain is trying, and often failing, to navigate in a group video chat.
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For some people, the prolonged split in attention creates a ... (mystifying) sense of being ... (fatigued, burned-out) while having accomplished nothing.
perplexing / drained
On the whole, video chatting has allowed human connections to ... (thrive) in ways that would have been impossible just a few years ago.
flourish
It’s even possible Zoom fatigue will ... (decrease) once people learn to navigate the mental ... (knot) video chatting can cause.
abate / tangle
If you’re feeling self-conscious or overstimulated, ...
Normand recommends you turn off your camera.
“Walking meetings are known to improve creativity, and probably reduce stress as well,” Normand says.
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