Julie Jargon – WSJ
January 31, 2020
Teens Grapple With Social Media Burnout
Adults often think teens just zone out on Instagram and Snapchat, but when WSJ’s Julie Jargon sat down with high schooler’s in Sherman Oaks, Calif., they said there are times when social media socializing gets to them and they have to put the phone down. They also shared their decisions to make their accounts private or public-and why it’s better not to post every feeling.
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I am a people-watch person when in the public sphere because it gives you a sense of the way people act in public tells you how they act in private. The “phone” thing is the biggest distraction in society because it takes away from the actual personality of the individual. When people are sitting at a table with others to socialize and they each retract to their own cocoon (phone) to be sure they aren’t missing anything – it tells me they are more attracted to their phone than the people who are in front of them and should have stayed at home.
Rule of etiquette is “put up the damn phone” unless it is an emergency call until your “present party” is over. It is rude to mentally leave the presence of people when they are sitting in your presence and it looks like you are researching a project. Use your manners – please. Enjoy the moment of being with others and have fun. Don’t take life so seriously that you let the phone be your master.
kommonsentsjane
