Those damn kids and their cell phones!

[jeff47]

[ScreamingMeemie]

1. Not the same though, phones have ruined us (IMO)

I never remember seeing two people with their Sony Walkmans plugged in, not talking to each other at a restaurant. People didn't tend to carry portable televisions around to look down at while they walked. Newspapers, books and magazines were always put down at some point.

I know it's a cartoon, but the big difference is that cellphones let people be engaged without really being engaged. I can be all snarky on FB/Twitter/Insta/Whateva... and then refresh and refresh and refresh for responses.

[upaloopa]

2. I keep more in touch with people than I ever have

with my phone. Text email and social media let's me be I touch no matter how many miles separarate us. I connect with people I thought I would never hear from after years of separation.

[ScreamingMeemie]

4. I do too, I just don't do it while I'm out to dinner with someone else like so many do today.

[hobbit709]

6. I've seen people text each other at the table in restaurants rather than look up and talk.

[FLPanhandle]

7. My wife and I texted each other all through a meal once.

We had a blast. It was a noisy NYC place with a doomed couple sitting next to us.

Texting isn't all bad.

[upaloopa]

8. We put the cell phones away at dinner

No TV or magazines or cell phones

[hobbit709]

10. somebody once had an idea for a game to play while going out.

Everyone at the table puts their cell phone in a pile. First person to reach for their phone pays the tab.

[ScreamingMeemie]

18. That's a good idea. One of my friends has a cellphone basket.

You come over for an evening of drinks, etc. You put it in the pile.

[ScreamingMeemie]

9. This. It is so sad to see. That and people at ball games, concerts, movies... all with

their honkers stuffed in their phones.

[jeff47]

3. Yeah, it's not like there was a stereotype of a man reading his morning paper

and ignoring his wife or anything....

[ScreamingMeemie]

5. Yeah, I totally remember seeing couples in restaurants with newspapers in front of their faces...

[jeff47]

12. Because restaurants are the only places people eat. (nt)

[ScreamingMeemie]

13. ***whoosh**** my first comment apparently went right over your head.

Not the same. Sorry Jeff. Not the same at all.

[jeff47]

16. Because those kids today are doing it wrong. Again. (nt)

[ScreamingMeemie]

17. It's not just kids today, jeff. It's today, today. Everyone, today... and it's everywhere.

Not the same. This was not an indictment against you, by the way. it's a comment on that cartoon being off on equating cellphones with the other things... which were always put away at some point for honest interaction. With your cellphone, you don't need that interaction in the real world today. Not just kids. Adults are far worse. My son barely uses his phone at 17. I use mine far more. Thanks for helping to underline that.

[jeff47]

20. So...you're complaining about your behavior?

Not just kids. Adults are far worse. My son barely uses his phone at 17. I use mine far more.

So....don't?

Not that hard.

[ScreamingMeemie]

23. No, because I don't sit at restaurants with my shnozzz stuck in my phone. I turn it off on

entering. Pity more adults don't when they are out with real live in-the-flesh friends. You're fighting over something that's kind of silly here. Did you draw the cartoon?

[Skittles]

19. HELLO, IT'S NOT JUST KIDS

when I seem to be enjoying a child in a waiting room more than his own mother, who is glued to her handheld and completely oblivious to his reactions to the new toys, something is NOT RIGHT

[jeff47]

21. Hey, I saw the kid run across your lawn with those new toys. (nt)

[Skittles]

22. gawd

yet another one who does NOT.F***ING.GET.IT.

[ScreamingMeemie]

24. Doesn't want to get it seems more like it. Took my comment as an attack.

I guess we were all supposed to laugh and agree, but this cellphone thing is way out of hand in public.

[Skittles]

26. don't you remember all those people reading newspapers at the movies, ScreamingMeemie?

come on now

[cwydro]

11. Yes.

What you said.

[Drahthaardogs]

14. I cannot agree with this.

The youth today are so attached to their cell phones they are losing their social skills. At work, I have to create a rule for meetings that no cell phones are allowed. IF I did not, they would ignore the meeting and sit there and text away.

[MowCowWhoHow III]

15. Juvenoia

[Nye Bevan]

25. I'm not sure that families in 1840 sat down to dinner, each with a book in their hand (nt)