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Post by Squad 51 on Feb 14, 2020 15:19:15 GMT -5
Oh yeah, I'd also appreciate it!
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Post by Tim on Feb 15, 2020 0:35:34 GMT -5
Of course, they will have their phones back when the day is over.
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Post by Jean on Feb 15, 2020 18:48:24 GMT -5
Wonderful idea, which I fully support.
I'm starting to find it so sad how much people rely on and use their phones in public. I went out to dinner with my friends for Galentines Day on Feb 13. Almost half the people in our restaurant were on their phones. I was rolling my eyes, you're on a freaking dinner. Put those phones down and actually have conversations.
I barely touch my phone when I'm out unless I need to take a call, text message someone or use the maps to find a location.
I find it very rude if someone uses a phone when you are with them unless it is an important call to take.
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Post by Tim on Feb 15, 2020 19:20:57 GMT -5
I think it's time for restaurants to start making rules about this. Namely, leave the phones at home.
I mean if you can't go one hour without your phone, well, I feel sorry for you.
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Post by ladyfiaran22 on Feb 15, 2020 20:13:30 GMT -5
I think it's time for restaurants to start making rules about this. Namely, leave the phones at home.
I mean if you can't go one hour without your phone, well, I feel sorry for you.
Same here, especially when kids keep using their phones and can’t get off them. It’s not only in schools, even in church this is a problem. I’ve seen people texting and scrolling during Mass and my Sunday school students are upset for the whole hour they can’t use their phones in my class. Last week, some of them asked if they could make a Tik Tok video in my class and I said no, they were upset. Even in church people can’t be without their phones 😞
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Post by Tim on Feb 16, 2020 0:20:11 GMT -5
The line needs to be drawn.
Places such as schools and churches need to ban these things outright, IMO.
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Post by Melinda Halliwell on Feb 16, 2020 3:42:27 GMT -5
Remember back in the day when no social media or mobile phones existed and the only way to keep in touch with people we're letters, postcards, landline or public phones which everyone did including teenagers that no-one had meltdowns about if those things weren't kept up regularly and life chugged along still then?
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Post by Squad 51 on Feb 16, 2020 6:45:36 GMT -5
Oh yeah, the good old times. Now we're depending on a phone.
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Post by Tim on Feb 16, 2020 12:33:30 GMT -5
Remember back in the day when no social media or mobile phones existed and the only way to keep in touch with people we're letters, postcards, landline or public phones which everyone did including teenagers that no-one had meltdowns about if those things weren't kept up regularly and life chugged along still then?
Yeah, I remember that world.
If you brought my 1980's self to 2020, he'd wonder what all the fuss is about.
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Post by Squad 51 on Feb 18, 2020 4:12:53 GMT -5
Yeah, me too. Even in the GDR time, we were off from anything. Only the party brought up the news.
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Post by Tim on Feb 18, 2020 12:53:45 GMT -5
Also, there was no such thing as Social Media when the GDR existed.
Be hard for them to cover anything up today.
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Post by Squad 51 on Feb 19, 2020 6:31:46 GMT -5
Indeed. Now we'd know all.
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Post by Tim on Feb 20, 2020 0:23:08 GMT -5
Stuff even gets out of North Korea.
And that is one of the most closed off places you can find (where very few even have Internet access).
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Post by Squad 51 on Feb 20, 2020 4:43:39 GMT -5
Yeah, information is good. Even for countries closed off the world.
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Post by Tim on Feb 20, 2020 12:06:12 GMT -5
So it has its up sides as well.
Dictators can't keep the lid on things like they used to.
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