Spent a morning out on the town on my day off, and everyone is just fucking buried in their phones 24/7. This realization was so absurd to me
Of course I’m not exempt from this shit, but no wonder people are having so much trouble making friends and creating meaningful relationships in this day and age. So fucking bleak
That’s my concern, too: sure, people wanted distractions and entertainment since before recorded time and they had “do not disturb” ways of signaling that, but they didn’t have handheld slop receiving devices that were algorithmically curated to hook them as deeply and profitably as possible.