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I live in Dublin, and I walk (currently unemployed waiting for masters results and applying) a lot. It's not uncommon for me to spend the better part of the day
by dorchadas 4y ago
I live in Dublin, and I walk (currently unemployed waiting for masters results and applying) a lot. It's not uncommon for me to spend the better part of the day out just wandering the city. There's definitely a lot of people with their heads in their phones (myself included at times, though I try not to!). I've been pushed off the sidewalk multiple times, or bumped into, by people not looking up where they're walking and just kinda zig-zagging down the sidewalk. Often, they've got their airpods in and their head still in the phone.
Maybe it's a Dublin thing though.
- II2II 4y agoI certainly agree that people walk around with their noses in their phone. I see it every day. I also see many more people with earbuds, but I live in a neighbourhood that has an abundance of joggers. The thing that I disagree with is the phone a cause of the social disengagement that we see on the street. There are people who are disengaged because of this technology, yet it is a far cry from the majority of them. Are phones a symptom of social disengagement, sure. But how do you explain all of those people who aren't engaged with their surroundings yet aren't hiding behind technology?