Life Before…and Life After Mobile Phones

[graeme_hutton]

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‘Life Before…and Life After Mobile Phones’

What have we lost I wonder?

Leica Q

Graeme

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46 minutes ago, graeme_hutton said:

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‘Life Before…and Life After Mobile Phones’

What have we lost I wonder?

Leica Q

Graeme

Lost? More than we will allow ourselves to acknowledge, that's for sure..........

[jankap]

The more important question is to think of what we have won? Don´t look back, think positive!

[fotografr]

I think we are losing the ability to communicate and interact with each other in person. I often see young people in coffee houses and restaurants sitting at a table staring at their phones rather than talking to each other--just like the four young lads at the right in your photo.

[graeme_hutton]

1 hour ago, fotografr said:

I think we are losing the ability to communicate and interact with each other in person. I often see young people in coffee houses and restaurants sitting at a table staring at their phones rather than talking to each other--just like the four young lads at the right in your photo.

 It’s couples out for dinner together that’s even more depressing, when you see them gazing into their phones totally detached from one another.

G

[stuny]

Excellent shot, and a question we've (Barbara and I) have often discussed, usually after seeing what you and Brent note.  The first time I recall being struck by this was in Dubrovnik in September 2009. It was a beautiful, balmy evening, with the lighted city wall and sea for romantic atmosphere, where we were enjoying dinner.  A couple on the level a meter or two below us were not paying attention to one another, nor the exquisite surroundings -- both had their attention drilled into their cell phones.  The young woman was so attractive I thought at least the man should be looking at her, but no.  His phone won.

In the photo below from last Saturday evening a couple of young men who never learned how to dress for a very fancy and expensive Manhattan restaurant are caught during a rare moment when only one of them wasn't on his phone.  Leica Q

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48 minutes ago, stuny said:

Excellent shot, and a question we've (Barbara and I) have often discussed, usually after seeing what you and Brent note.  The first time I recall being struck by this was in Dubrovnik in September 2009. It was a beautiful, balmy evening, with the lighted city wall and sea for romantic atmosphere, where we were enjoying dinner.  A couple on the level a meter or two below us were not paying attention to one another, nor the exquisite surroundings -- both had their attention drilled into their cell phones.  The young woman was so attractive I thought at least the man should be looking at her, but no.  His phone won.

In the photo below from last Saturday evening a couple of young men who never learned how to dress for a very fancy and expensive Manhattan restaurant are caught during a rare moment when only one of them wasn't on his phone.  Leica Q

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Ha! They’re probably zillionaire ‘Tech Bro’s’. Thanks for commenting, Stuart.

Best wishes,

Graeme