Yeah, pretty much that. Not just the online social stuff, but it’s also pretty obvious that even the presence of a smartphone kills the vibe in a way that is hard to put into words. Maybe the possibility of being recorded at any given moment? I think the youngest generations are realizing it. It’s why you’ll see a lot of flip phones in the hippest neighborhoods
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Gen X and older really have forgotten what it was like to party without smartphones. Total freedom to just have fun with basically no fear. When you did see a camera, it was very obviously a camera and you can interact with it as such. No ambiguity, so no creepiness.
This is something I've been thinking recently too, it's about recorded history, and how we are perceived by others. I've been watching videos of internet drama surrounding the Super Smash community, and have notice that every time someone wants to discredit somebody the first thing they do is look at their twitter history, somebody's internet posts are becoming something along the lines of a Curriculum Vitae for internet and I think the same could be said of recorded videos.
Agree, being in the company of heavy phone users when I use it mostly to check time it's eerie, one moment you're all laughing and talking then everyone is on their phones.