(September 22, 2018 at 5:56 am)Pandæmonium Wrote: There’s nothing more depressing than seeing people eating in a restaurant and between every bite or drink being in their phones.
No doubt you’ve all seen families around a table all on their phones, not taking to one another. Everywhere, people looking down at their phone.
It’s the next thing I’m trying to wean myself off. I try and leave it at home when I’m on holiday or in my bag when I’m meeting people. I don’t put it in my pocket when I’m out anymore either just to stop myself reaching for it.
Yeah, I know what you mean. That used to be a big problem for me when I used Facebook... basically checking every few seconds/minutes no matter where I was. And I agree it's not much fun to see nor try to talk to people with their heads buried in their phones all the time.
It's still a problem for me here but much less pronounced than with Facebook. AF is basically the only 'social media' I use now and the only thing I check regularly. But one difference is it's not constantly alerting me with stuff when I'm off it so that makes it a different kind of addiction than FB and much more escapable... in theory
In practice my phone still follows me into the toilet to check AF , and periodically throughout the day, and in advert breaks watching TV etc but it doesn't really impact on my family time unless I'm deeply engrossed in a thread or playing Mafia; in which case then it may follow me while I'm eating or physically socialising, because I can't easily switch off from it and to the extent that people find me distracted and difficult to get through to.So it is still an addiction here for me, but not as much as FB was, and much less all-encompassing. I do sometimes try to wean myself off it, but basically if I don't use AF I hardly use my phone at all and feel kind of empty and at a loss of what to do... which only shows up its addictiveness I know but nonetheless, that's the tradeoff. So yeah, that's the problem but much less pronounced with AF than FB.
