Graphic showing sales of smartphones per year, from 2013 to 2022. — © AFP
One of the most worn-out joke subjects in standup comedy is phones. “Kids these days…” or “I married a wrong number”, etc. The trouble is that these things are a true obstacle to communication in person and on the phone.
The phone culture is basically just another global disaster in progress. Phones are exciting, convenient, fun… And time-consuming like nothing else on Earth. They’re interruption factories. Just when you’ve got your one and only uncommitted neuron focused, they interrupt. When you’re interrupted, they interrupt the interruption.
The subject of phone etiquette must be one of the most useless of all search topics ever invented. It devolves into everything else like the phone is an attendee for everything you do. Etiquette is non-existent. Everyone “knows” how to be…
