Comment on Is the "Gen z stare" a real thing?
OctopusNemeses@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
I’ve seen it before from retail workers. The first time I thought they were on drugs.
They don’t activate until they decide to act. They don’t engage in formal greeting. Like, “Hi, how can I help you?” Like an idle NPC that hasn’t been triggered to run its script yet.
It’s probably related to the perpetual screen use that causes derealization or whatever. Like how streamers walk around in real life but their mind is engaged in the virtual world of their chat channel, and the real world to them is the virtual one.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 17 hours ago
It feels pretty odd to describe someone seeming to not be focused until they realize someone else is there as them being stuck in a fantasy world as a result of screen usage. Putting a smile on and being engaging can be exhausting. I don’t think we should fault folks for not doing it for 8 hours while they work.
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
it’s your job to do that. jobs are exhausting… if you can’t do that basic task then you shouldn’t have that job.
TerdFerguson@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
I think there is a case that could be made for ‘screen time’ having some kind of impact for how someone might come to value the presentation of persona for the sake of others comfort.
Like if you spend less time in person-to-person interactions, its might mean you won’t value it enough to constantly keep it up.