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I've ignored people around me while reading books as a kid, I've ignored people by sitting in front of a PC as a teenager, and now I ignore people while looking
by jakobegger 9y ago
I've ignored people around me while reading books as a kid, I've ignored people by sitting in front of a PC as a teenager, and now I ignore people while looking at a mobile phone. Whenever I try to spend less time looking at my phone, I just spend more time reading the newspaper or whatever else I can find.
Maybe technology has made the problem worse, but at least in my case the problem is me, not whatever distracts me.
- thinbeige 9y ago> I just spend more time reading the newspaper There so many great things you can do when being offline. But it's definitely not reading a physical newspaper in 2017. This doesn't make sense (for me at least) and this is not about liking or hating technology. It's like using a phone booth for making phone calls. A newspaper is just an inferior medium for that use case. The actual message of your post is good though. Edit: Why the downvotes?
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- jacobolus 9y agoAs far as I can tell his point is that he suffers from a kind of “information addiction” and it prevents him from engaging with the people around him as much as he would like or accomplishing other goals, and that he switches reading a newspaper (still a form of compulsive solitary procrastination) if for whatever reason the internet isn’t available. Your comment is a non sequitur.
- canjobear 9y ago> the problem is me Is it a problem? You don't have to pathologize it.
- jakobegger 9y agoI don’t consider it a major problem, but it is definitely a pretty annoying habit.
- incompatible 9y agoMaybe the people around you just aren't as interesting as the people who wrote the things you are reading.
- jakobegger 9y agoNope. Anything will distract me. In a pinch I’ll start reading nutrition facts on ketchup bottles.