The other
day I was travelling on the underground and I couldn’t help hearing a few
people in my carriage talking on their phones. I was forced to listen to a girl
chatting with a friend about their boyfriends, a man doing business on the
phone (and possibly disclosing some confidential corporate info) and a woman
planning a weekend away with someone.
Somehow
these people found it acceptable to share their personal and professional lives
with complete strangers. I find it difficult to understand on at least two
levels. On the one hand, I don’t wish random people to know what I do at
weekends and what I think about my boss (and what if one of the unwitting
listeners happens t be my boss’s cousin?). Why on earth would anyone want to share
such ins and outs of their life with strangers? On the other hand, I am not
interested in knowing about random people’s love lives and shopping habits and
I’d rather they kept them to themselves.
Privacy
seems to be a thing of the past, which I find deeply disturbing.
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ReplyDeleteI personalny try not to answer a phone while being in public transport and if so i answer quickly or i say that i will call later. But i can understand that some people dom't have this problem. It may he connected to the imternet as we already share huge amounts of our lives to the strangers
ReplyDeleteI have never had such extreme situation, when 3 people were talking on their phones in my carriage, but I experienced people talking too loudly with friends or on the phone. And I agree that it is a bit risky. For me it is also difficult to understand why these people are so eager to share their private life with strangers. Nonetheless I have to admit that sometimes I talk on my phone in public transport but I always try to be as quiet as possible and even when I am, I feel a bit awkwardly that someone can hear me.
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