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Not only is it rude, but it's not a social gathering in the same way. That's how I read this quote from the article, >After five days without phones or tablets
by imh 11y ago
Not only is it rude, but it's not a social gathering in the same way. That's how I read this quote from the article,
>After five days without phones or tablets, these campers were able to read facial emotions and correctly identify the emotions of actors in videotaped scenes significantly better than a control group.
- sandworm101 11y agoStaying away from most anything makes you worse at that thing. Staying away from phones/tablets for a week might also make them less able to understand emogies, slang, and current humor (all vitally important for the youth of today). The OP places greater value on face-to-face conversation. I'm saying that the OP takes this too far, that electronic interactions should not be dismissed so readily.
- emn13 11y agoI think you overestimate human flexibility. We're hardwired for all kinds of face-to-face interaction. It's almost certain that emogies or no, no matter the amount of training, you're never going to gain the level of social insight and empathy while texting that you could have had face-to-face. You may have huge brain and trillions of times of the computing capacity of a simple calculator, but it's still going to beat you at arithmetic. Know your limitations and embrace your strengths. You're not some general purpose machine; what's the point in pretending otherwise?