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Modern life is so tied with smartphones living without it is increasingly becoming harder (lemm.ee)
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[–] quickpen@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

True, school is nice in that it forces you to hang out with your peers, and that isn’t really emulated later in life. But I don’t think that’s the point.

The point is that it’s just tougher to have non distracted conversations. Or even non distracted periods of time hanging out.

It just feels awkward when someone is sitting there texting with someone else in front of you. Or just looking something up on their phone “really quick”, and then is MIA from the conversation for five minutes.