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Originally Posted by Mblake1981
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Wisdom.
Besides, when EQ released no one really had a clue as to how far mobile & social media would change the culture. Today people can't sit still for more than 2 minutes without reaching for their mobile smart device.
I think it's only natural to push in the other direction.
Wearing earphones and listening to music or podcasts while inside a professional office building has become normal and acceptable even by members of upper management. Do you know how absurd it is to say hello to someone and they just walk by, then you are left to figure out "Oh, they are listening to those damn earphones."
Our culture got really weird with tech and what triggered the big change was Steve Jobs, Samsung and Mark Zuckerberg. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] |
Haha, so true
This is going off on a bit of a tangent from the original question in this thread, but I'm one of those people who got too sucked into tech and I'm wearing wireless headphones (highly recommend apple powerbeats pro, they sound amazing) quite a lot of the time in public. For example, if I'm shopping at a grocery store, I usually have my headphones in. I'll be listening to either music or a angry political podcast or something. I purposefully will put them in when I don't want to be bothered, I call them my "fuck off" headphones. But it does definitely cause me to be more anti-social. Luckily my entire job is talking to people so I get enough conversational exposure that way
And I am completely addicted to the distractions my phone provides. There's a certain time in my job where I got into a particular section of hospitals where phones are not allowed due to patient privacy (phones have cameras). It's during these stretches, sometimes up to 15-20 minutes of waiting...with no phone...that I realize just how much I need my phone for downtime. I'm constantly wanting to grab it, having to re-remind myself I can't do it or staff will yell at me. When I was a kid, cell phones weren't even a thing. And the first cell phones I had sucked. These new phones have completely changed me, and probably not in a good way