Right! I see it as an emotional dependence... like electronic comfort food.Cagliostro wrote:...It seems so often when I'm out in the real world, so many people are so dependant on their damn phones.
If I'm trying to meet up with someone and they're late, that's uncomfortable.
(Did I mess something up? Is this tutoring session going to start off on the bad foot because we're starting 10 minutes late? Not to mention, I'm standing around alone in the library entrance... what will people think? Do I look like I belong here? What's my excuse?)
But you know what people do? Pull out the phone and open it up to feel secure and like I'm doing the right thing, not just for communication.
Now that I have a cell, and feel the urge to do exactly that.
I feel like in times long ago, there were the kings and queens and nobles, and everyone (probably) talked about them and what they were doing, wearing, and owning...Cagliostro wrote:If they don't write about it, the event never happened. Concerts must be viewed through the lens of the cell phone video recording. Parties are spent frequently doing whatever on their cell phones. I hate the dependence.
...but now we are trying to reproduce this narcissistic "everyone-is-thinking-about-what-I-do" effect on a massive scale...
...We feel like that level of self-importance is within anyone's reach. (?)
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