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[Selkie]

I know this was a rhetorical question, but there's a real answer--cell phones have no feedback while regular phones do. When you talk on a regular phone you hear your own voice, but you can't hear it when you talk on a cell phone so you talk louder trying to compensate and end up just looking/sounding like an idiot.

Sarah

It was rhetorical but because I use my cellphone only once in a blue moon & for short conversations, I never noticed that I couldn't hear myself.