How to Be Better at Parties

Re:How to Be Better at Parties by pavel_lishin on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @02:03PM (#17971362)

> 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.

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Re:How to Be Better at Parties by chrisco255 on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @02:27PM (#17971586)

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.

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Re:How to Be Better at Parties by bizkitgto on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @04:47PM (#17973135)

> Sounds like they were meaningfully interacting with their friends.

That's a meaningful interaction to you - texting?

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Re:How to Be Better at Parties by yesenadam on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @05:45PM (#17973730)

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)

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Re:How to Be Better at Parties by pavel_lishin on Thursday September 13, 2018 @09:23AM (#17978388)

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?

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