Obsession with the Smartphone at lunch

[drronnie]

This is more just for laughs but I find it hilarious that people here use the phone with the left hand while attempting to eat their lunch with their right hand. What Line smiley can be so urgent that they cannot put the phone done for 10 min.

[Laughing Gravy]

welcome to the modern world. Not for the best either IMHO. it happens with Western and Asian people. A generation change I believe. I have even seen motorbike crashes with people still holding and talking to their phones after a crash. The world is mad.

[SJN]

People just want to be updated all time. Talking to people online while barely talk in person. My sis is one of those people who just sends me text via line while i am upstair and she's downstair. It sucks.

[baneko]

Drives me nuts. Its definately not just a Thai thing. Its everywhere.

BTS is the worst. Everyone on the phone and no conversation apart from me and the wife. She was also on the phone but can multi task when required.

[NickJ]

Breakfast, lunch, dinner......There are more people using a phone at the table then those not......Walked by MK Suki yesterday and that was the case. Most had them proped up like books........spill a drink on the table and see just how fast people can move.

[SoiBiker]

People probably said the same thing about the newspaper once upon a time.

[NickJ]

My Mom loved it when we went out as a family and brought newspapers.......

[SoiBiker]

My Mom loved it when we went out as a family and brought newspapers.......

Unless you're some 300 years old, your mom probably wasn't part of the generation who saw them as a confusing and threatening new technology.

To quote the wonderful Douglas Adams -

“I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies:

1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.

2. Anything that's invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.

3. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.”

I'm guessing for many here the smartphone is in category 3.

[Emster23]

Wait 20-30 years and see the brain damaged (neural pathways grew at expense of other pathways), socially retarded population. Some who might still have semblance of brain will ask "Why didn't we see that coming?".

[SoiBiker]

Wait 20-30 years and see the brain damaged (neural pathways grew at expense of other pathways), socially retarded population. Some who might still have semblance of brain will ask "Why didn't we see that coming?".

Oh seriously! They're just reading from a screen rather than a page. Not everything new is the end of the world.

[i claudius]

Just eating supper while typing this,if you had told me 2 years ago I would own a smartphone,I would have said you were mad

[MaeJoMTB]

Wait 20-30 years and see the brain damaged (neural pathways grew at expense of other pathways), socially retarded population. Some who might still have semblance of brain will ask "Why didn't we see that coming?".

Oh seriously! They're just reading from a screen rather than a page. Not everything new is the end of the world.

It certainly destroyed my ability to remember phone numbers.

Thank God for Google, all my numbers seamlessly remembered and shared between my devices.

[NoshowJones]

Breakfast, lunch, dinner......There are more people using a phone at the table then those not......Walked by MK Suki yesterday and that was the case. Most had them proped up like books........spill a drink on the table and see just how fast people can move.

Mk! is that MBK? Think I will try that.

[Typingdog]

It's a part time entertainment. Browsing and talk with my sweetheart vie line. But I only do that when I'm by myself

Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

[thehelmsman]

I intend to never own a smart phone. Defend it all you want, it still isn't right to feel the need to stare at a small screen constantly.

[richard_smith237]

I intend to never own a smart phone. Defend it all you want, it still isn't right to feel the need to stare at a small screen constantly.

Owning a smart phone doesn't give you the need to stare at the screen constantly.

It simply gives you the opportunity... Its when you choose or not choose to use that opportunity that seems to matter.

I love the convenience of a smart phone. I can read my e-mails when eating alone (as with the Op), I can see photos my family send me and VideoCall with them. I can Bank online, I can do many things which make my life much more convenient.

I could also be consumed by the 'habit' to be 'connected' to the World constantly, but really, I use the internet on my phone to kill the time I would otherwise spend wasting on something else while waiting for something else... (i.e. car to arrive after valet parking, waiting in an airport lounge, sat alone at a dinner table or waiting for a friend in a pub... or simply sending an SMS)...

Smart Phones are extremely convenient... but for some they do seem to have taken over and created a new 'bad habit'...

[SoiBiker]

I wouldn't be without mine, for similar reasons to above, plus a few more. It's worth it for Google Maps alone, for example.

[fang37]

What makes the Smartphone superior to the plain-wrap mobile?

[SoiBiker]

What makes the Smartphone superior to the plain-wrap mobile?

A whole range of things. It's basically a pocket computer, with all the functionality and flexibility that entails.

Pretty much the thing I use mine least for is making phone calls.