It's not just the phones themselves, it's the modern social media apps (TikTok etc.). But I agree it seems to be twisting things up.
I think a closely related issue is how everyone, everywhere, all the time seems to be arguing about political ideologies, or making every issue about red vs. blue or liberal vs. conservative or racist vs. antiracist or whatever other way people want to split others up and then talk about it all day.
I get that it's an election year in the US and people have done this for a long time, but I swear it feels like it is reaching an absolute fever pitch these past years that is different than before.
Because it seems so all-consuming, I think it distracts people from work even more than in the past.
I think a closely related issue is how everyone, everywhere, all the time seems to be arguing about political ideologies, or making every issue about red vs. blue or liberal vs. conservative or racist vs. antiracist or whatever other way people want to split others up and then talk about it all day.
I get that it's an election year in the US and people have done this for a long time, but I swear it feels like it is reaching an absolute fever pitch these past years that is different than before.
Because it seems so all-consuming, I think it distracts people from work even more than in the past.