I went to dinner with some friends and usually I have to ask them to put their phones up, but I didn’t this time. I wanted to see how meanigful our conversations would be without phones versus with them; I can say they were a lot less meaningful. Everyone was talking to people, but not to the people they were with. They always had to answer that Snapchat or take that Buzzfeed quiz. When our food arrived they obviously put their phones down, but really they just talked about what they saw on their phone instead of having a conversation with each other. I learned that some people just can’t get out of their own world and that it takes someone reminding them to get off their phone to actually do it. You should just try to be in the moment the
