March 23, 2006
Continuous partial attention
Being continuously accessible through electronic devices makes you inaccessible to the people standing next to you.
"Your world turns into a never-ending cocktail party where you're always looking over your virtual shoulder for a better conversation partner. The anxiety is contagious: anyone who winds up talking to a person infected with CPA feels like he or she is accepting an Oscar, and at any moment the music might stop the speech."
I can attest to this. I hate it when someone I'm talking to takes a call while I'm standing there.
Of course, I rarely ever do this, but that's only because no one ever calls me.
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