(Plus people have way too much control over body language and facial expression for it to be useful in work setting)
So no, you're not the only one, but unfortunately, you, just like me, are a silent minority. Although in some of my previous engagements building efficient highly distributed teams have spent a lot of time teaching people to work asynchronously. Which made the few time limited calls extremely effective.
- oh I'm not smiling!
- what's that on my face?
- my hair is sticking up
- did I just pick my nose?
Even if I turn off my cam view of myself I can't seem to get rid of it. Of course I have some of this awareness in real world meetings but in a virtual meetings it's like 10x. It makes trying to do any coding over a screen share almost impossible for me, my brain feels like it's being split in half doing too much at once. Luckily most peer coding is just the screen and voice, no cam. Except interviews, lol.
I never liked phone calls and always preferred face-to-face communication, maybe that's related.
And yeah, when on a call I almost always walk, helps concentration/blood flow.