Do you think cell phones is making society anti social and makes it harder to get to know people?

[Mr. Lender]

someone on yahoo answers posted this and I feel the same way

I do text, but only on occasion really and not the entire day. People do it non-stop these days. When you go inside a mall or another public place, people sit on the bench next to each other and instead of talking, they text. Why? Use your voice.

In the break room at my work, instead of people talking to each other, they text. Same in college, people would rather text in class then talk.

I remember the good ol days back in the 90's and early 00's, where we would socialize again without being absorbed in technology.

The thing will cell phone is that people can't hold a conversation for more than a 2 minutes without reaching for their cell phone and texting. Texting inhibits people from getting to know people in face to face interaction.
I know society is getting much more egotistical and feel somewhat of an boost of self esteen to text in public. Not only that but they get twitter accounts and tweet as if they're a celeb or high status person but the fact of the matter is they're not, so they're no one.
do these non celebs actually think people care about the stuff they do on a daily basis? maybe the person their screwing but other than that it's like stop acting like you're a celeb and that people care
Mircat....lol texting isn't really socializing...if the "friendship" is mostly text that's not much of a friendship....

how is it the opposite? you go to a classroom and people are on their phone or even a break room...yeah real easy to meet anyone that way
Mircat....lol there's people I used to text to that I don't really want to hang out with, so don't say it's causing socializing....you are contradicting yourself...anywhere you go to...mall, classroom, break room...people are on their cell phone...how does that make it easy to get to know anyone? why would you even approach someone you don't know in that situation? people reach out for their cell phone and you want to continue talking to that person? it doesn't matter who it is they even do that to their friends...they go reach out for their cell phone after a minute into the conversation
Mircat..here's another post

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?...951AA7JF9Z


the person talking about how you go to a clasroom and people are texting...yeah how is that socializing? if anything it's showing they don't want to talk to anyone...

[Mircat]

No, I don't think so. I think it's the opposite. I think cell phones make people too social. I think it also is making them without manners and rude. They interrupt conversations and activities to take phone calls meaning your time with them is unimportant. They talk loudly and make everyone else have to listen to what's going on in their lives...and it's usually incredibly mundane and boring on top of it. If I have to listen I'd at least like it to be interesting.

I think Twitter and texting are the culprits that make people hard to know and antisocial. They don't know how to have real conversations and they have limited vocabularies among other things.