Video fatigue is real, writes advice columnist Eleanor Gordon-Smith, and now is a good time to be candid about emotional needs
Like everyone right now, I’m video-chatting a lot – Skype drinks, family dinners over FaceTime, catch-ups with groups of friends on Zoom. I’m pretty extroverted and I love that we can all stay connected but I’m finding it tricky to say no when I don’t want to spend another evening in front of the screen. Specifically, I have one group of friends who have now decided that we will catch up for drinks and a video chat every Tuesday evening.
I don’t really know how this happened and feel like a total Grinch for saying this, but I don’t want to Skype them that often. We would never have caught up that regularly in pre-corona life. But there’s no excuse to get out of it, it’s not like you can say “I’m busy” – because what else is anyone doing at the moment? My housemate has a similar problem. His mum calls him everyday for long and involved chats and pre-corona he could tell her that he was busy or couldn’t take the call at the office, and get out of some of the calls, or at least keep them short, but now he’s stuck. What is the protocol for managing social lives in these Covid times? How can we politely tell people we’d just rather not chat all the time without the usual excuses?
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