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People used to feel all kinds of ways about what is now normal smartphone use. There are probably a lot of remnants of those attitudes in ‘00s media that can still be found.

Everyone either got over it or shut up about it because they (ahem, we) had clearly lost.

I expect actually-useful smart glasses will eventually overcome the same stigma. Actually-useful being the key part of that.

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Strong disagree. I think there is still a fairly large cohort of people who feel that e.g. looking at your phone at dinner, or responding to every random ding from your phone during a conversation, is rude and unacceptable behavior.

As someone in that cohort, the number of people that feel the same way as me is nearly non-existent. The only people that seem to share the sentiment are my parents and my older colleagues. I have an Apple Watch primarily to avoid having to take my phone out while still being able to see important notifications (I love the focus mode stuff) so I'm not some kind of anti-tech ideologue either. Most other people are not only used to phones being out and around but the vast majority have no qualms about it.

I got an Apple Watch for this reason when they first came out and found out that people constantly thought I was bored or had to leave because I kept glancing at my watch. Looking at the phone never got a negative response.

As field anthropology, this is an interesting observation.

The vast majority of people I know, of all ages, consider this rude and unacceptable behavior.

If meta had their own mobile OS, taking into account how they have little to zero care for European privacy laws or any privacy really, I highly doubt most people would feel comfortable having conversations with the device nearby.

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