> It surprises me how people are less and less open to socialize, to the point that some even see you with disgust if you DARE to interrupt them from.their mobile phone trance.
Have you considered that maybe it's you, and you're just interrupting at the wrong time? Imagine someone's reading a book and you interrupt them and then you blame them for getting annoyed?!
I’m not OP but similar in age and remember when it wasn’t always like that. You could talk to someone who was reading the paper on the bus, they wouldn’t be annoyed. Being in public it was fair game. There would be conversations happening between strangers. Now it’s silent on the bus and everyone is on their phones nobody is chatting up strangers.
Can confirm. Also of the same age, and if I was at a cafe reading a book or doing my math homework when I was younger, it was totally fair game for someone to ask me something or engage me in random conversation. If I was really on a deadline and couldn't be interrupted I wouldn't have been at the cafe in the first place.
