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“If you have anxiety, or you’re very self-critical, you’ll likely feel those symptoms activated,” says Dana Rose Garfin, a faculty member at the Sue & Bill Gross School of Nursing to Experience. When it comes to a video mirror, a stress response is triggered by whatever you are dealing with emotionally. Researchers have started studying what actually happens when you look in a conventional mirror for a long period of time, and how that differs from looking at your video call self.

It’s been uncomfortable to say the least, so I could argue that seeing our own faces beckons familiarity. The thing is, talking over video chat isn’t exactly a new phenomena, but the current situation that forces video conversation into the sole front of human interaction is. The self that confronts you on these platforms is not the static, poised image you’re accustomed to seeing in the bathroom vanity or the selfie view of your phone camera-a blank slate onto which you can project your fantasies and self-delusions-but the self who speaks and laughs, gestures and reacts.” Perhaps the real question is not directed towards your external view on your self image, but rather, the feeling that your self image gives you.Īccording to Wired, “Zoom, of course, is not an ordinary mirror, or even an ordinary digital mirror. Well, if you’re even questioning the fear of becoming narcissistic in the first place, you may politely disqualify yourself against the term. So, why is it that you just can’t stop looking at your own face on Zoom if you’re ‘only just a little bit vain’? Should you turn off the self-view to avoid becoming a total narcissist? ‘Am I vain?’Ĭhances are we’re all a little bit vain-vanity in its grander context meaning that we are self obsessed. If you have yet to create a Zoom account, I’m proud of you, you’re part of the minority-but also, how? For the rest of us folk, you’ll know what I’m talking about when I ask myself ‘can they tell I’m looking at myself instead of them?’ while chatting to a colleague or friend over video chat.

Email Facebook WhatsApp Twitter FlipboardĪs much as virtual socialising as well as virtual working may not quite appeal to the masses, the masses are being forced to virtualise nonetheless, thanks to the COVID-19 lockdown debacle.