So some mommy who is oh so PC and lovin’ the gays has a problem with a ManHunt ad for an app to find a casual hookup at 0 feet away. I don’t agree with her reasoning for wanting the billboards to come down but will give my own: put down your damn phone and socialize! I’ve watched a disturbing pattern over the past year as these kinds of apps catch on where people are spending more and more time cruising the people who are near them through their pictures on the phone rather than just looking with their own eyes. Rather than starting a conversation with someone across the bar by smiling, walking up…the classic eye fucking, etc. instead they start sending instant messages to each other.
At what point will the whole reason for going to a bar be to sit in a corner on your phone ogling the pictures of other people sitting around on their phones having conversations via IM rather than actually looking at the people around you and having verbal conversations???