So he met the love of his life because he stopped to ask directions? How about where he got to wherever he was going without getting lost and met the love of his life there?

And we should stop using our phones on public transport, wind the clocks back to a time when everyone.... read books or the newspaper and continued to ignore other people on a commuter train.

Too much of a good thing is destructive

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Like VS? [grin]

Outside is overrated. Also, I don't own a mobile phone since I am mostly indoor.

Balance imo. I see children outside. In fact, the parks are more crowded now than I ever remember them. Sounds genuine but is mostly projection. F the luddites hipsters.

I went outside and got some nature on me..., get it off, get it off...

I told my son to go outside, he Googled it first.....

We rhyme like adolescent wankers // and our acting skills are worse than FUCK YOU YOU IMBECILIC LUDDITE SOPHOMORIC SHITS swear to god I wrote better poems in fifth grade.

Personally, I like having social media. It makes it easier to share small day to day things with friends and family who are across an ocean and continent. Without the internet and certain social networks, there are many people who I might have not known including my husband.

How about this, check out my poem.

Don't impose your fucking ideals on other people and fuck off?

Fin.

This idea that nobody interacts anymore, that kids don't play or spend time outside, is ridiculous. If your at dinner with someone and they won't talk because they spend the entire night on their phone.. your dating the wrong person.

How is it imposing?

You have no idea where the word Luddite comes from, and no you didn't write better poems in the 5th grade.

Yes that's true and that's the point of this, to suggest that this isn't the way we should be interacting to one another. You understand the premise but don't think it applies, and then you apply it accurately? Did you read what you wrote?

Oh look...nothing...again...

"Yes that's true and that's the point of this, to suggest that this isn't the way we should be interacting to one another." -Yogi

A suggestion in this pretentious form is intended as an imposition.

You don't know how people should be interacting, you want them to interact in the way that makes you happy. Fuck if that makes everyone else unhappy? Because you're right and this is the right way to live!

Or.

People live how they want.

Holy shit, that's creepy... you've been following me since fifth grade? Eww.

I know where luddite comes from, and I know how it's used today; maybe you're thinking of me when I was in fifth grade? If so, stop that. Please. Please stop.

Not really. @Xaielao is saying that the author of the poem is vastly overstating the extent of the problem.

Honestly, I've seen more videos complaining about this behaviour than I have actual evidence of this behaviour. I dunno, maybe it's a generational thing. My friends and I will occasionally use our phones while socialising, but generally it's along the lines of "what time is the movie we're going to see" or "what's the weather looking like for our road trip tomorrow", and very occasionally "did you see <friend who lives overseas> just had a baby?". I don't think we've ever sat around separately browsing.

Can people be rude and obnoxious with their phones or with social media? Of course, but the problem is not phones or social media, the problem is assholes. Take away phones and social media, and they will just find another way to be assholes.

Like right now, I'm going to be an asshole and explain to @Xaielao that when you're posting your opinions, you should use correct fucking grammar!

I can only speak from my own experience, but I have witnessed most of the situations the poem addresses. It's not the case that nobody interacts anymore, but most people I know always seem to be keeping an eye (or two) on their smart phones or computer screens, fearing they might miss something 'important' on the Internet (like a new meme or a comment by some stranger who disagrees with their views who they might have to argue with, which suddenly becomes more important than the person they are actually talking to). It's hard to make new friends if people are only interested in their social media profiles and making new 'friends' there, but never actually contact each other or spend any time together.
I know people who cannot talk to one another without simultaneously reading articles or looking at funny pictures and videos on the Internet (and thus don't really listen to what the other person has to say); who are unable to do one thing at a time, because it is too boring to talk to someone or do anything at all without further entertainment. They lack the attention span to talk to each other for more than three minutes at a time, or watch a single TV show episode or movie without pausing it in order to watch some videos or post comments online. A friend of mine believes it's too boring to talk to each other without at least playing a video game at the same time. I know people who almost exclusively interact with their real life friends or relatives through social media (who mostly live in the same city).
I like the way the Internet connects people far away from each other, who might not even have met otherwise. I have met several people this way, who I wouldn't want to miss. The problem, which I believe is the main point of this video, is the way it seems to disconnect the people sitting next to each other, which I have experienced myself several times. The problems pointed out in this video might not apply to everyone and every region, but it seems to apply to the people around me.

I agree, and here's the change that I've noticed. The phone traveling from the pocket, onto the dinner table. I think this is just rude, you're at dinner with people, spending time with them and giving them your focus, keep it in your pants.

In particular I've seen it in "The Trip to Italy" a distinct change from "The Trip" they have their phones on the table. They're at restaurants with friends or with eachother two funny comedians who are being filmed and are being entertaining. More specifically they're filming this for an audience and they constantly have their phones about, it's annoying.

I don't take calls when I'm in the room with others, I don't text in the middle of conversations especially not when at dinner. Put the phones down, the person who is right in front of you deserves the most attention.