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How phones killed dinner conversation

Every time we go out to eat I see couples sitting in silence looking at their phones and I judge them but then I realize we do the same thing.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

We have collectively forgotten how to be comfortably present with each other without digital mediation.

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“Where Are You with Technology and intimacy?”

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