XPost: alt.fan.usenet   
   From: nospam@example.net   
      
   On Thu, 15 Aug 2024, Anton Shepelev wrote:   
      
   > Kerr-Mudd, John:   
   >   
   >> PS &OT, today I went for a drink in a Social Club; it was   
   >>    astoundingly non-social, the other people were   
   >>    focussed on their mobile phones. So I did likewise.   
   >   
   > So that club is no longer a sutiable "medium for public   
   > discussions."  Smartphones are joykillers, and social   
   > networks, ironically, great disuniters of people.   
   >   
      
   Maybe it was an anti-social club? Personally I do not own a smart phone,   
   and when travelling or bored, I watch people or read regular books or   
   newspapers.   
      
   I feel like I am a very strange person sometimes. ;)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)