Consider this: a group of friends gather socially. They're interacting, not taking mobile snaps of their cocktails and Facebooking them off to "friends" who aren't friends. They're socializing in person—at a restaurant or similar establishment. Actual conversation takes place.
The friends all stack their mobile devices in the center of the table as soon as they arrive. The mobiles can do whatever they want, but the first person who touches a device pays the bill. For the entire group.
I'm not making this up. It's called Phone Stack, and was invented by a guy named Brian Perez. As he explains: "At the start of the meal diners place their mobile device face down in a pile on the table. The first person to grab their phone, for whatever reason, loses the game and has to pay for everyone's meal. If everyone resists the temptation for the duration of the dinner, then the check is split."
It's a start, a stab at the antisocial behavior promoted by "social" apps on mobile gadgets.
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