If you are a person who complains about smartphones making people anti-social
 

Seriously, just die.

You tv-watching-don't-talk-to-your-family-anyway-sitting-in-silence-like-a-miserable-wretch hypocrite.

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Who can also die: Anyone with opinions that bother me in any given moment based on nothing but my whimsical annoyances.

That sounds familiar...

i believe in being selectively social
 

Remember when the internet never lead to people meeting friends and/or significant others? Also remember when it was more enriching to talk to smelly crazy people on the bus rather than play games on your phone?

People who try to talk to me when my headphones are in and I am on the bus with my nose buried in a book or on my phone can also die.

On that note, the kind of people who complain about smartphones making people anti social sound pretty anti social themselves.

Edit: like why can't you just be comfortable in silence? Are you a babbeh that needs constant attention?

And what about the well-intentioned people that may very well just be concerned about you? Spending all your time not talking to people and some might think that something is bothering you. Do not mistake concern for hostility.

And no, not everyone can sit comfortably in silence. You're not obligated to respond, but it's awfully rude to say, "You're a babbeh if you want human interaction." That's an awful way to dismiss people who may or may not have actual issues with social interaction.

Well intentioned people can DIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!

Nah, if you've made it very clear through action or language that you aren't currently interested in conversing with a complete stranger in public and they want to keep pushing it, they are an asshole and a baby that is disrespecting your boundries


and she didn't say 'a babbeh that wants human interaction' she said 'a babbeh that needs constant attention'. Those are, in fact, not the same concepts and treating them as such is disingenuous.

What I'd like explained, in detail, is why said Stranger's desires somehow trump our own? If they don't give a shit enough to respect my desire to be left alone, what force is at work that demands I have to put up with it or *I* am the one that is being rude? Maybe I am already socially interacting with someone using my pocket computer that can literally reach anyone else on the internet or phone service in the entire world, and you are interrupting my text conversations with that person. Why not consider that?

before people had smartphones they had newspapers and before people had newspapers they shat themselves and screamed profanities at the fiery eye above them

^

BUT THE EYE

IT WONT LEAVE ME ALONE

IT'S CHASING ME DOWN THE CORRIDORS

WHY IS THERE BLOOD COMING OUT OF THE SHOWER

She never said, "keep pushing it". Just people that want to converse on public transport. You'll notice I took the post literally.

I believe the correct words were, verbatim, "like why can't you just be comfortable in silence? Are you a babbeh that needs constant attention?" Like the most horrible thing in the world is having someone who just wants to have a conversation on public transport. If it bothers you so much, just ignore them rather than complain about it. Getting all huffy and puffy about it is a waste of energy.

I never made that claim and implying that's what I said is disingenuous. Again, if you don't like it? Ignore them, but thinking of them as 'attention seeking babbehs' makes you sound like an asshole.

And stop trying to pick a fight.