I’m genuinely sure that phones helped to kill the prevalence of smoking. Seriously.
Like, imagine you’re waiting outside the cinema for your friends in pre-phone days. You can’t just stand around doing nothing because you’ll look like some sort of wierdo. But smoke a cigarette and suddenly you’re someone with purpose.
Phones solve that same social anxiety need, to give you something to be doing when it would be awkward to look like you’re doing nothing.
I’m genuinely sure that phones helped to kill the prevalence of smoking. Seriously.
Like, imagine you’re waiting outside the cinema for your friends in pre-phone days. You can’t just stand around doing nothing because you’ll look like some sort of wierdo. But smoke a cigarette and suddenly you’re someone with purpose.
Phones solve that same social anxiety need, to give you something to be doing when it would be awkward to look like you’re doing nothing.
@tiramichu in video games NPCs can stay there and do nothing sometimes, why couldn’t we?
@produnis
Because they don’t know they look like weirdos