{"id":1541,"date":"2015-10-03T12:23:40","date_gmt":"2015-10-03T18:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sebersole.wordpress.com\/?p=1541"},"modified":"2015-10-03T12:23:40","modified_gmt":"2015-10-03T18:23:40","slug":"help-us-please-somebody-help-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/help-us-please-somebody-help-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Help Us, Please, Somebody Help Us"},"content":{"rendered":"

What’s more fun than going out to\u00a0a baseball game? Well, for a group of sorority sisters from Arizona State University the only thing more fun than the game was taking selfies. While the game continued in the background, the TV crew and commentators became mesmerized\u00a0watching the gals enjoy their cell phones. The commentators\u00a0offered their own perspective, calling for someone to “help us, please…somebody help us.” They went on to ask for an intervention, suggesting that someone go out and “collect all the phones.”<\/p>\n

This raises serious questions about several issues:<\/p>\n

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  1. What is appropriate cell phone behavior at your local __________\u00a0(insert public venue of your choice)?<\/li>\n
  2. Is\u00a0living life through your smart phone screen a viable substitute for living life without the assistance of technology?<\/li>\n
  3. Does the announcers’ commentary cross a line into public shaming? And if so, is that an appropriate response?<\/li>\n
  4. Why\u00a0is social media so obsessed with calling people out for what is perceived bad behavior (on the part of either the gals or the commentators)?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Here are two of the comments I read on posts about this topic:<\/p>\n

    Yeah, the announcers are correct. You are completely wrong and asinine. We have a pathetically Narcissistic, ego-manically infantile society. Selfies are the most disgusting revelation of the new century. People used to take pictures of other people, places, things… Now they just take pictures of themselves.<\/p>\n

    and<\/p>\n

    How mature of a bunch of middle aged me to mock girls for doing what girls do. They should stick to baseball comments and stop bullying people.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    What’s more fun than going out to\u00a0a baseball game? Well, for a group of sorority sisters from Arizona State University the only thing more fun than the game was taking selfies. While the game continued in the background, the TV crew and commentators became mesmerized\u00a0watching the gals enjoy their cell phones. The commentators\u00a0offered their own … <\/p>\n

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