u/StutterTrooper

So I was having a medical phone call apointment about a problem on my feet, My native language is spanish and they already had a translator ready (I did'nt requested it) so I just let it go.

Mind you I have less trouble to speak one to one than with public, the more people present the harder it gets for me, but I was feeling confident at first.

Then the questions started flowing in, and suddenly I started having a whole stuttering episode, but the thing I HATED the most was when I was giving my answers to the translator and she was repeating the answer INCLUDING my stuttering, like what the actual fuck! I was like:

Mm.. mme compre unos za-za-zapatttos mmmmas cco-cco-modos.

and she was like:

I-III boh boh bought mm-mmore conf-conf-confortable sh-shoes.

Seriusly I just wanted to fucking die. I know this will be a funny story someday but DAMN

please someone send me some virtual abrazos right now because I can't :(

Edit: swearing

I got the Meta Gen 1s a month after they came out, and they were fantastic. I was already big on wearing sunglasses with a particular gusto for Ray-Bans and with these, I had all that plus the ability to record POV video, listen to music, and take calls. I got the gen 2 aswell as soon as they launched.

But right now, I don't feel as excited. There's an increasing stigma around them, and it seems like a few bad actors have ruined the fun for everyone. Now that people recognize them, I get all sorts of weird looks, and I can't help thinking people act differently around me because they assume I might be recording them. I've had some less-than-positive comments at work, too: one coworker shared a story about a yard duty worker at his son's school who wore them until people made a big deal out of it and she was banned. Last weekend, I wore them to a festival, but I couldn't help feeling self-conscious most of the time. The main reason I brought them was to record the bands without staring at my phone screen, but the results were disappointing anyway: the footage had a slight fisheye effect, and the audio quality wasn't great.

It doesn't help that Meta as a company has a bad reputation for past privacy breaches. Seeing news about these glasses getting banned left and right makes them feel like they're just not worth it for me anymore.

I've browsed this sub and seen people saying they don't care what others think, which is fine, but let's not pretend we don't live in a society. As for me, I guess I'll try to find a few last practical uses for them while they make their way straight to Marketplace. :(

So long, it was fun while it lasted I guess.

To all people that still find them useful> Kudos! I still remember the good times I got and I hope you could be having fun with them too.

P.S. English is not my native language, I used gemini to preserve structure.