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Has Social Etiquette Changed with introduction of new digital technology?
Ed_McCarron:
--- Quote from: Benevolance on June 01, 2010, 07:22:17 pm ---But I also hate people that insist on wearing sunglasses inside buildings.
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What about prescription sunglasses? Can't tell you how many times I've walked into a store and realized I don't have my normal glasses with me...
shateredsoul:
Another thought...
Online play was invented to make gaming more social and bring more people together to play... right?
I don't remember having an issue finding kids to play games with, it makes me wonder if online play is making kids less social with the kids immediately around them (but more social in another way)... then again, in high school I was a pretty shy kid, chatting online via the dreamcast gave me some social tools that were important in learning how to strike up conversations.
And it gives the adults a way to find other adults who still play games :P
shateredsoul:
What if you accidentally bought those glasses that change to sunglasses when it's sunny..
I take them off to avoid looking stupid (when I don't wear contacts), but then I can't see =/
--- Quote from: Ed_McCarron on June 01, 2010, 09:20:48 pm ---
--- Quote from: Benevolance on June 01, 2010, 07:22:17 pm ---But I also hate people that insist on wearing sunglasses inside buildings.
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What about prescription sunglasses? Can't tell you how many times I've walked into a store and realized I don't have my normal glasses with me...
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Howard_Casto:
The short of it is that social etiquette hasn't changed at all, it's just that the arrival of new "carry it anywhere" tech has made it much easier to spot ---uvulas---. Do not misunderstand what you are seeing. Talking on your phone in a room FULL of people to interact with is still rude. Texting at the dinner table and while driving is still ill-manered and in the case of the latter, dangerous. Sending inappropriate pictures of yourself to others or posting them where they are publically available is still... well inappropriate.
The only difference is prior to the tech rrevolution we weren't able to see people doing these things, immediately, out in the open.
Personally I LOVE the tech revolution. When I see a ---meecrob----bag walking through the mall on a bluetooth headset talking so loud that it's disturbing everyone and obviously talking to someone about unimportant things that could have waited I know just who to use as a human shield in the event someone goes postal and tries to mow down the whole crowd. >:D
That is, of course, assuming it isn't ME who's gone postal over that fact that I'm constantly surrounded by morons, ---uvulas---, or some fractional combiantion of the two.
shmokes:
Ya know . . . it cuts both ways. Yeah, interrupting a conversation to respond to a text message is obviously rude, exactly as it would be to suddenly start talking to someone else mid-conversation (in fact, it's the same thing). But seriously . . . it angers you to see someone with sunglasses on the back of his head? If that bothers you you're just asking to be offended, and people looking for things to be offended by are as offensive as anyone. The guy doesn't want to wear his sunglasses inside. I don't see how on top of his head or dangling on his shirt collar are inherently more appropriate than on the back of his head. Personally I don't even own a pair of sunglasses, and the last time I owned sunglasses I usually dangled them on my shirt collar or put them on top of my head indoors. But . . . who cares?
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