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Where's the party at? Not on phone-fucked dancefloors. (www.magicaldancefloors.com)

submitted 22 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Increasingly, the best parties are those where phones are absent.

The cameras 99% of adults carry in their pockets every day, and the powerful surveillance software those cameras connect to, make it easy for anyone to rip any moment -- even our most intimate, silly, goofy, terrible, embarrassing, or happy moments -- and put it online for all to see, stripped of its original context.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

No privacy no hamster dance simple as.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

As an Xennial I am forever grateful that I reached adulthood before smartphones became completely ubiquitous.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago

Any club that's worth it's admission will hand you a pair of stickers and insist you'll cover your phone's cameras with them at the entry. Also any serious club will show you the way to the door if you start recording video in there. The "clubs" referenced in the article seem to be shitty Discos rather than clubs. You're not going to McDonalds to complain you couldn't get any lobster carpaggio there, so don't go to Uncle Ernie's village spot and decry the downfall of club culture.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 15 hours ago

I've always been too self conscious to dance, and had never thought of this before, Nice article, thank you for sharing.