To feel sad with the way society has become?

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I hate anyone playing their mobile phone in enclosed public spaces.

I have just been enjoying a breakfast in wetherspoons and a family came in behind me. Two little children and their dad. The kids are both glued to their ipads and their dad glued to his phone with the bloody volume up! There is extended family on the next table across who look like the man's parents and they are being civilised, making conversation with each other and not on technology, but if that was my adult child, I'd have to tell him to put his phone down, get the kids off the pads and parent them properly. We're going to have a generation of adults in a few years who don't know how to act in public areas, cafes and restaurants. They won't know how to have an intelligent conversation, I fear.

Times have changed. With the advance of tech, the genie is out of the bottle, I am afraid. As they say, just do you.

But I want to be able to go to places and not hear peoples phones.

Agree! Although I wonder how much good conversation is ever that intelligent anyway.
But yes, social interaction is becoming a rare skill - I think the term incel needs to be revised as internet addict, and it needs to be recognised as a social ill alongside alcohol misuse etc with porn addiction classified as particularly dangerous.

I pass a costa every morning going for the bus. There's often an adult sitting with child in school uniform getting breakfast and the adult is looking at their phone and the child is looking bored. I want to thump the glass window and say TALK TO YOUR CHILD, but i dont, obviously.
Its really sad.