Generation Y

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by NewChief

My wife is Gen X, and she's AWFUL about being on her phone. I actually text her at dinner and in social situations, telling her to get off her phone because it's embarrassing. A large part of her business is social media, so that's partially to blame, but it's also just a bad habit.

People are becoming increasingly uncomfortable being in their own skins, imo.

It's so easy now in a down moment to get on your phone and check the planet or Facebook. I find myself doing it instead of observing the world or meeting new people, and I see others doing the same thing. I don't think it's a good trend.

I was at a charity dinner the other night, one of those where a couple of hundred people buy tickets and eat a meal while there's a speaker. It was in a big mansion and the layout and acoustics didn't work well, so I could barely hear the speaker at all. It was awful because you couldn't talk to anyone else since the speaker was talking, but you couldn't hear the speaker half the time, either. I was at a table with half a dozen people and I was battling the whole time to keep from pulling out my phone and checking out Chiefsplanet.