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Topic: blogging at the table-socially correct?
| Author | Message |
| advicesisterA | Posted – 5/2/2008 4:09:24 PM | show profile I just attended an awards ceremony. There were five "bloggers" at the table of eight, and four of them spent the entire time "live blogging" from the table. They had their noses literally fused into their blackberries and didn't talk to their neighbors or even applaud the winners. I suppose you could make the case that these people were just doing their "job" to get the news out first, using technology, but isn't it a bit rude? Do you consider this resonable behavior or am I just out of touch for thinking that there are still social conventions one should follow in a public gathering of this sort. |
| Brena | Posted – 5/2/2008 4:36:43 PM | show profile It is rude to me. |
| snappiness | Posted – 5/2/2008 6:15:37 PM | show profile Rude. That's what press boxes/tables are for. |
| WordyBird | Posted – 5/2/2008 6:44:36 PM | show profile Ditto Snappiness. They should have been in the press box. |
| Lula | Posted – 5/2/2008 7:02:49 PM | show profile I'd agree that it's pretty rude, but it's par for the course, I think. I'll do you one better, though. I attended a panel discussion being held for a capacity crowd in which one of the PANELISTS spent much of the discussion Twittering into his Crackberry. Now how's that for disrespectful? The concept of presence seems to lost to the interwebs these days... |
