Links for Thursday January 5th 2012

[deathpixie]

Originally posted by alasdair at Links for Thursday January 5th 2012

• The phone game
  This is a brilliant idea – during meals with friends, everyone puts their phone on the table face down, and the first one to check theirs pays the bill. I'm absolutely as guilty of this as anyone else, but I am increasingly of the view that basically, phones are for when you are alone, and that checking them in company, outside of when you have received a text or call is Not On. Hypocritical, maybe, but I'd like to be better, and will attempt to do better this year.

Originally published at Black Ink.

Wow, I'd be so broke doing this... Which is possibly a sign I should, neh?

Comments

[jbmcdragon.livejournal.com]

I totally agree with this. Except:

that checking them in company, outside of when you have received a text or call is Not On

Unless it's the end of the world, IMO checking them when you HAVE received a text or call is still Not On. I mean, I don't like to think that some unknown message is more important than the people I'm spending time with. (I suppose the exception is if you're waiting for that call or text... but most of the time, we aren't!)

J

[seraangel.livejournal.com]

It can be a little different in IT circles. If I'm oncall I have to answer texts and calls within 15 minutes.

[jbmcdragon.livejournal.com]

Oh, yeah, but in that case you're on call, not checking your phone to see if something better's come up! ;)

J