{"id":17593,"date":"2025-02-02T14:39:16","date_gmt":"2025-02-02T13:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/02\/why-cant-i-stop-looking-at-myself-on-video-calls\/"},"modified":"2025-02-02T14:39:16","modified_gmt":"2025-02-02T13:39:16","slug":"why-cant-i-stop-looking-at-myself-on-video-calls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/02\/why-cant-i-stop-looking-at-myself-on-video-calls\/","title":{"rendered":"Why can\u2019t I stop looking at myself on video calls?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The long-running series in which readers answer other readers\u2019 questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical concepts<\/p>\n<p>Why can\u2019t I stop looking at myself on video calls? It\u2019s become obsessive, to the point where I have to turn off the camera. <em>Daniel Brown, London<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Post your answers (and new questions) below or send them to <\/em><strong><a href=\"mailto:nq@theguardian.com\">nq@theguardian.com<\/a><\/strong><em>. A selection will be published next Sunday.<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2025\/feb\/02\/why-cant-i-stop-looking-at-myself-on-video-calls\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/a323f15cd168f0b0ead79e554e367fe778184b9e\/0_114_5616_3370\/master\/5616.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=f7f2ba23fafca62735efa3b427b71e3a\" title=\"Why can\u2019t I stop looking at myself on video calls?\" \/>The long-running series in which readers answer other readers\u2019 questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical concepts<br \/>\nWhy can\u2019t I stop looking at myself on video calls? It\u2019s become obsessive, to the point where I have to turn off the camera. Daniel Brown, London<br \/>\nPost your answers (and new questions) below or send them to nq@theguardian.com. A selection will be published next Sunday. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The long-running series in which readers answer other readers\u2019 questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical concepts Why can\u2019t I stop looking at myself on video calls? It\u2019s become obsessive, to the point where I have to turn off the camera. Daniel Brown, London Post your answers (and &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/02\/why-cant-i-stop-looking-at-myself-on-video-calls\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why can\u2019t I stop looking at myself on video calls?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":17594,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17593"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}