@Carnival-Boy said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Introverts were probably happier, they had good excuses to be isolated and removed from people. For extroverts, it was probably horrible for the same reasons.
I think it's the opposite. Pre-internet, when I used to go to training courses and seminars, during the coffee breaks there was nothing to do so everyone talked to each other. Even me, despite being introverted!
Now I go to them and everyone is glued to their phones in silence (or talking to the office). I hate it.
I suspect it isn't so bad in the US, as you're generally a much more friendly and confident bunch, but in the UK it's terrible. One of the main points of going on courses and seminars was to meet people. If I'm not doing that, I may as well stay in the office and join a webinar (webinars - another internet invention that has killed the art of meeting people).
I guess I didn't go to many of those in the pre-Internet phone era. Some, but never met people as everyone kept to themselves even then (think Office 2003 launch party, for example.)