Tech Post #5

I Will Check My Phone At Dinner And You Will Deal With It

I found this article on TechCrunch, and it's about texting at the dinner table at restaurants. Now days if you look around a restaurant, you can find multiple people texting because it is becoming the norm even though older generations have the view that "you shouldn’t check your phone at the dinner table." However, "the situation has sort of reversed itself: you feel awkward if everyone else is using their phones and you’re not." Eventually when using your phone at dinner table "fully becomes the norm, there will no longer be the same stigma attached to checking your phone at a restaurant." Some people view texting while at dinner to be rude because they feel as if you are ignoring the others around you, while others consider it to less rude than talking on the phone since you are not making any noise. Even though some peole think that texting at dinner is rude, others feel as if it adds to the conversation by being able to look up facts and statistics, and it could spark conversations on what applications on are certain phones. I feel as if this will affect culture as this becomes more and more of a norm because it's changing the way people interact with each other at social gatherings, especially dinner. I chose this article because I tend to text a lot at dinner while my parents tell me not to which contines to show the different views of older and younger generations.

 

Here is the link for the article: http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/21/phones-at-dinner/