- Hello everyone.
I'm Jenny Slate and I'm here
to answer some of your questions about phone etiquette.
[upbeat joyful music]
"I added my crush on Snapchat and he didn't add me back.
"My sister did and he added her back and watched her story.
"What the heck?"
Oh, what the heck indeed, Anonymous from Quora.
Let me be honest, I don't get what Snapchat is
and I don't use it.
I thought that it was for people
sending pictures of their penises
and their vaginas and their titties.
So I don't use that because I don't do that.
Like if I'm gonna be real, and it's cool to be real,
it seems like he likes your sister.
"Why do I always feel the need/want
"to be texting/talking to someone if I'm not?
"Almost get a sense of loneliness or boredom
"and I don't really know what to do with myself.
"How can I stop feeling this way?"
This is by Solodoloed on Reddit.
For me, I experience this very deeply
and I feel like there's a little hole of loneliness
inside of myself, that for most of my life,
I've been pulling people in in order to fill it up
and now I realize, that what you need to do
is plant the seed of yourself deep in your hole
[laughing]
and grow up out of it like a tree
and then you can just like be in the world like this
and then you're just like always like this,
whether or not you're alone or with other people.
Just like fill your hole.
[laughing]
"Why do people even say hello anymore
"if they have caller ID and can just be like, hey derp?"
Which is a word that obviously I don't know what it is,
and I, I'm sorry, I just don't know what it is.
Okay, and this is by I can't spell on Reddit.
You know why I think they do that?
Because I think that it is a fundamental and simple pleasure
to greet people,
and hopefully we're not all so disgusting by this point,
that we just like computer each other all the time.
I think it's nice to say hey derp,
although I don't say that I'm like,
"Hi Dianne."
[laughing]
"How do I make a collect call?"
This is from Anonymous from Quora.
When I was in high school,
the way that my Mom would know to pick me up from
Speech Team and Acapella,
okay. [laughing]
Is that I would use a payphone
and I would dial 1-800-COLLECT which is the number,
when they would be like "please say who's calling."
I would go "Jenny at the front of school!"
And then she would deny the call,
and then I would know we're on like a four minute countdown
to her coming to get me.
And no one would say goodbye to me,
'cause I didn't have any friends.
[laughing]
"Life Advice.
"If you call your friend
"and she talks bad about your best friend
[laughing]
"not knowing that you called your best friend
"and put it on three way
"and made your best friend put it on mute
"just so that your best friend
"could hear what the friend is saying about her,
"what kind of friend does that make you?"
Asks Anonymous from Quora.
Who did what to who?
You called someone else, and acted like the--
It seems like you all need to take a break from each other.
That move of calling one friend,
putting them on like silent
and then calling the other girl and being like
"Brittney what do you feel about Alexis?"
and then that girl obviously like rips on the other one,
that's for rude people.
Don't do it and if someone does it to you, they're garbage.
No one ever did it to me, they were mean to my face,
it was the 90s.
"Always remember that texting is not dating.
"It's texting.
"This might be a hard pill to swallow,
"but if your whole relationship is based on a screen,
"you're not dating."
That's what Madison Moore
said, on, in or on, Thought Catalog.
Yeah, that's true.
But you know, here's the weird thing is like,
you can get so intimate with people over text
and not just because you send them like,
a picture of your butt,
and you're like, "this is my butt."
Like it's not that, it's that like,
you just don't have to feel nervous
as you feel face to face.
You don't have to be like,
"I think my face is still
"but like, I'm actually making a lot of faces
"and they're seeing them."
You can feel more intimate and like you have something,
but um, you know ah, you don't.
[laughing]
"Unless you are doing something
"that requires both hands to be available,
"you do not need a Bluetooth earpiece."
This is what Darkneecross on Reddit said.
If a guy showed up with a Bluetooth earpiece in.
First of all immediately I would be like,
"You're not gonna do it for me if it's about sex,
[laughing]
okay?"
You don't need that right now.
The like little thing that looks like a little shark tooth?
Ugh, my God, you don't know what's going on.
You don't know what's going on, you're not a computer,
take it off of yourself.
"I know that L-O-L is not as meaningful as
L-O-L-O-L-O-L or L-O-L!"
Which is all caps, Madison Moore said that again,
Madison Moore from Thought Catalog.
Those mean different things.
If someone says L-O-L it's just L-O-L,
I feel like they're like.
L-O-L-O-L-O-L is like, that's hilarious!
L-O-L in all caps, is surprise.
[gasping]
You know, the general rules for behavior
are the ones that still stand.
People need their own personal space, that's number one.
Number two, don't do something over a phone
that you wouldn't do in real life,
'cause it's gonna have weird consequences.
And number three, you can put it down,
there's a whole world out there,
there's a whole world out there.
[camera crew clapping] Thanks guys
I like that you have this little phone here.
- [Cameraman] Right?