• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    10 hours ago

    I was at a party and another person was watching videos on their phone without headphones while everyone was watching a movie. We were all too polite to say anything because it was part of a three-day meetup for people who had been talking to each other on a forum for years and no one wanted to be critical of anyone else, but wow did it piss me off.

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      5 hours ago

      This is why people do it… Because no one’s willing to call them out and ask them to stop.

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        4 hours ago

        I know, but I feel like that was an unusual situation- a group setting where everyone would be there for multiple days and no one knew each other in person. Sort of a ‘everyone be diplomatic’ thing so as to not make things bad for the hosts.