Walked past Dolores Park where a teen was hitting tennis balls at a wall solo while 2 apparent grandparents each stared at their phones
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People used to bring a newspaper or a book places where they had to wait. A phone isn't much different.
Fair. And reading a newspaper at the table in front of someone else would have been similarly rude..
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It's about where your attention is. Is it fine or insulting to want to escape this particular moment?
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But is this necessarily an attempt to escape? Any time we choose to focus in one place, we are also choosing not to focus on something else.
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Perhaps a more useful question then is: how consciously are we making that choice? And is it honoring the agreements we’ve made with others?
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Social conventions are also a factor, but honestly those matter far less to me than the explicit agreements I’ve made with those I care abt.
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Seeing me on my phone, a stranger has no idea if I’m tweeting, supporting a close friend, or reviewing cancer results. How dare they judge?
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I think that gets back to Star's original point: As the things you can do expand the action becomes more natural for larger groups.
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Perhaps. I still experience a lot of “get off your phone and live!” prejudice, even here in the hyper tech-centric Yay Area.
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I wonder which factors drive acceptance the most: diversity of utility, generational churn, device ubiquity, necessity, etc.
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