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i was in a FaceTime call when i opened this in Chrome on iOS.

The speakerphone became max volume and the volume slider became unresponsive.

i had to open up another media player and play music to get the volume slider to work again

My Chrome also locked up for a good 10 seconds while trying to render the in-browser PDF reader on desktop. Never seen something like that before.

I guess the other side got a good idea of the level of importance you had assigned the ongoing FaceTime call.

That's a pretty uncharitable thing to say!

FaceTime is routinely used to just hang out with your family or buds, your presumption that doing other stuff is automatically rude just doesn't hold up.

jgalt212 didn't say that it was rude, only that doing other things during a call shows the level of importance one assigns to the call. There's not necessarily anything rude about assigning a call low importance.

That sort of observation isn't neutral, merely couched so.

The amount of attention given to a FaceTime call is not a measure of importance, thus the observation is unsupported.

Is it rude that you suggested that FaceTime calls are so unimportant it's expected you'll be distracting yourself with other activities while they're going on? If not, why not?

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