Yesterday I decided to do some social experiments in order to better understand the college campus. This idea must be from all of the communications research that I have started doing in my graduate degree, so this is quite a new thing for me to do. The reason I did this was I noticed that walking around campus most students would not even look anyone in the eye as they walked by each other.
I was on the bus because it was pouring rain as I was leaving my social media class, and it was packed with students. I then tried to talk to everyone on the bus because I love communicating with people when not one person attempted to lift their head from their phone. The bus was completely silent as 25 students not only were not talking to anyone but were not even lifting their heads from their phones. Later that day I noticed the same thing walking to workouts when I passed people trying to dodge each other while having their heads in their phones. It is quite a sad skill that we have developed as a society that we are able to navigate while not even looking up.
This is a quick blog thought but I just want to encourage everyone to be more aware of how much you are looking at your phone when you are around people. You never know what kind of benefit you will receive from talking to the stranger on the bus next you, or meeting someone new on the sidewalk as you are walking.
Thoughts from an Athlete 