Re:How to Be Better at Parties
by chrisco255 on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @01:03PM
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I'm a senior millennial (mid-80s kid) but I can tell you, anecdotally, that younger generation is more addicted to their phones and devices than my gen ever was. There was a car accident in front of my younger cousins' house where a car hit a fence and literally flipped over. While me and my uncle/aunt and a few others called for help and chatted about the event...my younger cousins were busy texting the event to their friends. It was as if they were there, but not really there.
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Re:How to Be Better at Parties
by SpicyLemonZest on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @01:53PM
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I'm not sure I agree with the distinction that talking about an event with people who are there is "chatting", but talking about it with people who aren't there is merely "texting".
Re:How to Be Better at Parties
by pavel_lishin on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @02:03PM
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> my younger cousins were busy texting the event to their friends. It was as if they were there, but not really there.
Sounds like they were meaningfully interacting with their friends.
Back before the internet, they'd have probably rushed inside and fought over who got to use the phone to call their friends first, and describe the incident outside over the phone to them.
Re:How to Be Better at Parties
by chrisco255 on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @02:27PM
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Probably they'd be interacting with their fam who was there and in the moment and later they'd call up their friends about it.
> Sounds like they were meaningfully interacting with their friends.
That's a meaningful interaction to you - texting?
Why would you think it's not? What point are you trying to make? as it seems obviously a 'meaningful interaction' to communicate with someone. (disclosure: I don't have a mobile phone, have never sent a text)
Re:How to Be Better at Parties
by pavel_lishin on Thursday September 13, 2018 @09:23AM
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Kids these days - texting, emailing, talking on the phone, writing letters, exchanging meaning through spoken words. Whatever happened to a good, clean round of picking bugs out of each other's fur?