I have noticed that people using mobile phones, especially on building sites, will wander around aimlessly whilst talking rather than remaining stationary or sitting down or leaning on an object, why is it so?

bob(from black rock) said:

I have noticed that people using mobile phones, especially on building sites, will wander around aimlessly whilst talking rather than remaining stationary or sitting down or leaning on an object, why is it so?

Morning all.
This question has been asked many times without any satisfactory coming forward.
Since I got a mobile I find myself doing it as well.

Tamb said:

bob(from black rock) said:

I have noticed that people using mobile phones, especially on building sites, will wander around aimlessly whilst talking rather than remaining stationary or sitting down or leaning on an object, why is it so?

Morning all.
This question has been asked many times without any satisfactory coming forward.
Since I got a mobile I find myself doing it as well.

Weird aint it?

bob(from black rock) said:

Tamb said:

bob(from black rock) said:

I have noticed that people using mobile phones, especially on building sites, will wander around aimlessly whilst talking rather than remaining stationary or sitting down or leaning on an object, why is it so?

Morning all.
This question has been asked many times without any satisfactory coming forward.
Since I got a mobile I find myself doing it as well.

Weird aint it?

Maybe it’s because people aren’t sitting at a desk where they can doodle.

Tamb said:

bob(from black rock) said:

Tamb said:

Morning all.
This question has been asked many times without any satisfactory coming forward.
Since I got a mobile I find myself doing it as well.

Weird aint it?

Maybe it’s because people aren’t sitting at a desk where they can doodle.

Good point,

bob(from black rock) said:

Tamb said:

bob(from black rock) said:

Weird aint it?

Maybe it’s because people aren’t sitting at a desk where they can doodle.

Good point,

They aren’t confined by a phone cord. They are however being interrupted during the course of their day and the phone call has them on edge.

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roughbarked said:

bob(from black rock) said:

Tamb said:

Maybe it’s because people aren’t sitting at a desk where they can doodle.

Good point,

They aren’t confined by a phone cord. They are however being interrupted during the course of their day and the phone call has them on edge.

I seem to have some kind of “spare capacity” & use some of it by wandering about.

CrazyNeutrino said:

Studies Show That People Who Doodle Have an Advantage Over the Rest of Us

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Its like a memory aid of some sorts.

because people usually move around when standing whether they are on a mobile or not. shifting weight.

bob(from black rock) said:

I have noticed that people using mobile phones, especially on building sites, will wander around aimlessly whilst talking rather than remaining stationary or sitting down or leaning on an object, why is it so?

It’s a way of breaking the conversation up for overhearers. Nah’s more people try to look busy, and many of them are busy.

just having a look at the history of eavesdropping, the term.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eavesdropping

“…The verb eavesdrop is a back-formation from the noun eavesdropper (“a person who eavesdrops”), which was formed from the unrelated noun eavesdrop (“the dripping of water from the eaves of a house; the ground on which such water falls”).

An eavesdropper was someone who stands at the eavesdrop (where the water drops, i.e., next to the house) so as to hear what is said within…”

Another theory is that radio waves can heat up the brain

and walking around helps to cool it down, if you get too hot place a fan in front of you.

CrazyNeutrino said:

Another theory is that radio waves can heat up the brain

and walking around helps to cool it down, if you get too hot place a fan in front of you.

Most people would suggest drinking lots of ice cold beer instead.

Tamb said:

bob(from black rock) said:

I have noticed that people using mobile phones, especially on building sites, will wander around aimlessly whilst talking rather than remaining stationary or sitting down or leaning on an object, why is it so?

Morning all.
This question has been asked many times without any satisfactory coming forward.
Since I got a mobile I find myself doing it as well.

Hmmm, a simple question with no satisfactory answer.

Paces up and down in thought …

>This question has been asked many times without any satisfactory coming forward.

It’s not very natural, so maybe isn’t terribly satisfying in the way of correspondence of senses. Latter meaning like doing something you have sound + sight etc that correspond generally, of experience. The moving around’s compensatory.

Talking on phones involves social aspects of the mind (and more), that are resource intensive. You don’t have the usual presence of the person to read facial expression etc, so you got to read the sound of words etc more, which are via a radio voice channel too.

People have become quite clever too at using phones (for pressure, communicating expectations). Also for handballing responsibilities.

And if your mind reading fails they can ring other people and tell them about it (part of informal behaviour controls).

So with all the decoding and mind reading and degraded or otherwise context there’s a certain tension maybe that inclines a physicalization.

there’s the obvious thing too, that a lot of people don’t like talking on the phone, for whatever reason.

bob(from black rock) said:

I have noticed that people using mobile phones, especially on building sites, will wander around aimlessly whilst talking rather than remaining stationary or sitting down or leaning on an object, why is it so?

I do while talking on cordless, I don’t have a mobile.

Hypothesis guess. Could it be similar to being unable to stand still while listening to radio?

It’s almost as if the vision and audio circuits within the brain don’t overlap, and we’re so used to getting simulations active inputs from both circuits that we can’t stand it if one of the circuits isn’t feeding us new information all the time.