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Sometimes people criticize others about phone usage to justify their own reluctance to learn how to use technology.
Are you serious right now? Your unhappy with someone suggesting that you might be wrong, That you might be rude to your friends, if you engage in cell phone use, while with meeting with them for a few short hours and you come up with an insult like this....?
So totally deflective and childish....
Face the truth, and correct it, your friends deserve better than competing with a cell phone.
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well, you can also turn that analogy around and say, do you think your so special that your phone needs your undivided attentio all during the course of your meeting with them...it's down right rude, period....doesn't matter if your making phone calls or not, your glancing at your phone, you agreed to meet up and hang out for a while, are you so addicted to your phone that you need to glance at it...if I were with you, I'd out right say, "am I boring you?" and I don't believe I'd ever meet up with you again. Your telling that person your calls are so much more important to you then they are.
Leave it for God's sake, and go back to it after your get together.
It depends if you are on call , or a parent and have babysitter at home, or waiting for some news. One time I was waiting for an important text I let my dear friends know and when my phone in my bag vibrated I said excuse me , quickly glanced. They were just as happy to hear the news as I was.
Luckily I have friends who are polite and understanding as I am that sometimes we do need to check our phones. The only time I’d be peeved is if they take a social call while I’m sitting there but then I don’t have friends that do that.
I can see / read red font as clearly as black....maybe it is your device?
It is not my device. It is the fact that many people, including myself, find blue and other colors of font uncomfortable (eye strain) and difficult to read. Some people don't realize, so I thought it would be worth mentioning.
I think that member may have interesting posts, but it's not worth the discomfort to find out.
It seems to me it should just be common courtesy in a public forum, to use black type, but not everyone thinks of it.
It is not my device. It is the fact that many people, including myself, find blue and other colors of font uncomfortable (eye strain) and difficult to read. Some people don't realize, so I thought it would be worth mentioning. I think that member may have interesting posts, but it's not worth the discomfort to find out.
Actually, you're the only one of your 'many' that has raised the issue of the color font of my posts being difficult to read. I can read the posts in navy blue - or the occasional dark red - as clearly as I can read posts in black font. Otherwise, I would agree with you. As mentioned previously, the blue font I use is my choice of color as an individual. Until you brought this up, I would never have considered that this would be an issue to anyone.
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Originally Posted by catsmom21
It seems to me it should just be common courtesy in a public forum, to use black type, but not everyone thinks of it.
It seems to me that ^ is rather a stretch. If font color was limited to black because to use anything other would be seen as not being common courtesy, then the color black would be our only option.
Anyway, here is my response to you in black. But, here is navy blue font right beside it. For my eyesight anyway, it's just as readable.
Actually, you're the only one of your 'many' that has raised the issue of the color font of my posts being difficult to read. I can read the posts in navy blue - or the occasional dark red - as clearly as I can read posts in black font. Otherwise, I would agree with you. As mentioned previously, the blue font I use is my choice of color as an individual. Until you brought this up, I would never have considered that this would be an issue to anyone.
It seems to me that ^ is rather a stretch. If font color was limited to black because to use anything other would be seen as not being common courtesy, then the color black would be our only option.
Anyway, here is my response to you in black. But, here is navy blue font right beside it. For my eyesight anyway, it's just as readable.
I was able to read until the last line. The blue hurts.
I've been out on countless dates, work dinners, work lunches, etc.
Most people understand how rude it is to just be on your phone. However, once it's times to go, getting on your phone is a good way to indicate "we had a good time, it's time to go now, check please."
I was on a recent date where the woman was just on her phone every single second, and as you can guess, she ended up getting her own ride back home. Luckily most of the dates I've been on consist of a person who has common sense.
That's what I would have done, plus let her pay her half of the check.
So I think most of us agree that using a cell phone while eating with others at a restaurant is rude. However, I wonder how many of us make a distinction between checking a phone and playing on a phone..
I have breakfast once a month with sister. I usually leave my phone in my vehicle, she might check hers. She commented about me leaving it in my vehicle.
I said "I want you to talk to me, not at me. You deserve that"
She then quit bringing in hers.
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