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Published: February 23rd 2015
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SHHH...MY BEST BUDDY IS MY iPHONE...texting is preferable to conversation.
I first noticed it in Java.
Go to a restaurant and the tables are full...but silent. No conversation during meals...the only sound waiters clattering plates...patrons silent.
In shopping centre corridors...no conversation.
In trains packed with people...no conversation.
Everyone looking into their mobile phones...texti...
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Kuan Yin
Karen Johnson
Put down the damn phone!
I think cell phones are one of the greatest dangers to civilization of our time. I've seen a group of teenage girls - presumably friends - walking on the beach in Barbados, and none of them were talking, only texting. Texting has gotten so bad in Singapore that there are PSAs in the metro telling people to look up while they are walking. An selfies! Don't get me started on this stupid habit. What are you trying to prove? And to whom? The one good thing about the cell phone craze is that I can be pretty autonomous: taking pictures, walking faster than the crowd, getting that last seat on the metro.