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"I am not going up to that person to talk, that's needy and like not cool at all...but I can't stay here staring into the void either...what am I gonna do? Oh yes I am gonna look at my phone and pretend that my attention is captured by something/someone else, that would put pressure on him/her to come talk to me instead"

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If you look idle it can be inferred you have no friends as well. Looking at your phone indicates friends or people you interact with even though you can use a phone for a million other things. I grew up when texting was fairly normalized (like around the time when you could rollover minutes/texts).

Sadly the toothpaste is out of the tube on this one and my biggest fear is a phone number will basically be like your social security number as more companies are dumb enough to tie it to an sms 2FA. I predict in the next 100 years it'll happen. And when that comes it'll just be solidified.

Which is sad.

Said "as an introvert".

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