Is it rude to use the chat during an English video meeting?
The chat is rude when it is used to avoid the meeting — side conversations, decisions taken in text that half the room never reads, or a point raised in chat and never spoken.
The chat is rude when it is used to avoid the meeting — side conversations, decisions taken in text that half the room never reads, or a point raised in chat and never spoken. It is useful when it holds your place: one line that states the point, then a spoken request at the next break to say it properly.
Chat earns its place when the connection is bad, when the point is a number or a link, or when you are parking a turn you intend to take aloud. It loses its place when a decision appears in text that only two people read. One habit covers both: every chat point gets a spoken sentence before the item closes, even if it is only "the chat has one number — forty percent, not sixty".