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[QUOTE="K_Lynn, post: 1109660, member: 98304"] Years ago while I was visiting my parents for a few days, my father made a snide comment about me "fooling around with my phone all day". I was texting my friends that I only see once a year and coordinating our get togethers for the next week or messaging my partner to see how his day was. It's how people communicate. While on Camino, I pulled my phone out to take pictures, check my maps, google what that weird plant was, look up information about the town I was coming to, the name of that river with the pretty set of falls, how to say a specific phrase in Spanish or to find the article I had read to share with someone to further our conversation. I posted pictures for my friends back home, answered their questions, excitedly sharing my day's experiences. Alone in my room, I would check up on my usual news sources and talk to my partner at home about his day and where I was now. Once while talking to a few other peregrinos, one asked if I Googled everything. Yes, yes I do. I had looked up the various species of venomous snakes that they might have run into backpacking through Sweden, and the venomous snakes in Spain, they had no idea about either. I had looked up the town they were from and had asked about the architecture. One of them had shin splints and I showed them a video on how to foam roll to release the strain. I didn't see anyone walking, phone in hand, staring at their screens. I saw people talking to each other, pointing out a tree or hill, or immersed in their own world of one step in front of the other. Sometimes I don't want to talk to anyone and would rather randomly scroll the internet while enjoying my cup of coffee. Sometimes I want to share something with someone. Sometimes I want to be entertained. Sometimes I want to complain on an internet forum about something someone else is doing that doesn't impact me at all. [/QUOTE]
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