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Most People Use Their Phones During Social Events, Despite Thinking It Harms Conversation
Mark Wilson points out that the Pew Research Center has released a new report on mobile etiquette in the age of smartphones. 90% of U.S. adults now have cellphones and carry them around frequently. Pew's survey looked into how this is changing social norms with regard to shifting attention away from physical-world interactions. Most people think it's fine to use a cellphone while walking the streets or waiting in line, but 62% think it's not OK at a restaurant, an 88% disapprove of using one at a family dinner. Disapproval of using a cellphone in a meeting, movie theater, or church is almost universal. 89% of people say they used their cellphone during their most recent social activity, whether it was texting, checking the web, or snapping a picture. Despite this, 82% say cellphone use generally hurts the conversation. 79% of adults say they occasionally encounter loud or annoying cellphone behavior from others in public, and more than half say they often overhear intimate details of other people's lives because of it.
Not a surprise to me, the far majority of people are and always have been rude.
From the people standing in subway doors (do they think we are going to climb out the windows?) to the people talking on the phone, people are rude.
Not everyone is rude. This study only looked at the U.S.A.
Remember that democrats hate minorities. Think about why they put plan parenthoods in mostly poor black areas. They hate black and want there to be no black people.
They hate the young too. They are the party of old (Hilary, Biden, Sanders.)
It's time to move these people out so they can stop killing us.