>95% of the people I see on the subway every day are glued to their smartphones without interruption....80% of the time I get a glimpse of the screen of those i

>95% of the people I see on the subway every day are glued to their smartphones without interruption....80% of the time I get a glimpse of the screen of those it's facebook/instagram/snapchat/... Is there anything inherently bad in that? You have to do something on the boring commute. This is honestly the worst example as a counter-point, literally in a situation where you have little else to do, and even then, that something definitely also depends on where you are. For instance, in Japan I mostly see people playing games, IM’ing or reading pocket books. In South Korea I honestly don’t see phones that often in public transportation, and in Denmark it is maybe half social networks and half just reading online or listening to music.