Face to face, not face to phone. Cell phones will increase our destructive hive living natures.

[Greatest I am]

Face to face, not face to phone. Cell phones will increase our destructive hive living natures.

Cell phones are killing our social skills. The cell phone is one of the rudest pieces of technology ever developed in our modern times. To see a family of four sitting at a dinner table and all four members are texting and avoiding the bonding that should be taking place, instead of the silence that occurs; is one of society’s greatest failures. Friends are out for a night on the town and everyone has their phone out, texting and not having meaningful conversations that would be more rewarding. We cannot speak in complete sentences without the use of acronyms and do not look at others directly in their eyes while speaking to them. This society is losing the art of pure communication.

We are mammals, but we are making ourselves into that less favorable condition of hive living creatures.

Are cell phones controlling our way of life?

I say yes.

Regards
DL

[pandr32]

1. Add to that the rudeness of taking and posting pictures

of unwilling subjects all over social media. A person no longer has an personal space.

[Codeine]

2. . . . he said on an internet discussion board. nt

[WhiskeyGrinder]

4. .

[WhiskeyGrinder]

3. O tempora! o mores!

Speak for yourself and leave "we" out of it. Phones are a tool like any other, and in many cases facilitate pure communication. Life's way too short to be judging how others socialize when you're out and about.

[Duppers]

6. +10

Calling, texting, using the net are life savers for those of us stuck in the middle of RWers.

However, I agree, that does not excuse *rude* behavior when out to dinner or face to face with friends.

[Caliman73]

5. I disagree.

They can certainly facilitate the process, in the same way that a newspaper or a book, or any other item that draws us into it. There is nothing unique about the cell phone. It is about the individual using the phone and the instruction from parents of significant people in the individual's life are teaching them.

Also, there is no such thing as "pure communication". Communication is such a complex and individualized transaction, that it is a miracle that we even do it at all. I agree that face to face communication gives the broadest spectrum of information in a given transaction, and it is my preference, but I would not a call it "pure".