2023-09-07 08:46:59
At just over 30, I belong to a generation that often finds its ass between two chairs. A sacrificed generation, fallen at the wrong time, juggling between employment and real estate crises and unwelcome government reforms… But above all the only one to have started life without the Internet, before falling head first into it. from adolescence. The one who lived through ADSL which goes beep-boop-woin-woin and, later, fiber and the Internet which goes very fast. A generation that we like to describe, for convenience, as “connected”, but above all terribly attached to a way of life governed and orchestrated by digital and/or electronic tools.
These marks and consequences of technological evolution in our lives can be found today in every second of our daily lives, to order food, find our way in the street or follow the adventures of our loved ones on one of the many social platforms. that are available to us. These uses are also found in more intimate or inappropriate moments, moments traditionally reserved for sharing, dialogue or discussions. A recent study came to underline, and confirm, the fall of one of the last dams of daily life where the telephone and the Internet might be set aside – with the shower, perhaps –: the meal at the table.
And for good reason, the Home Run Inn restaurant chain recently commissioned a statistical survey that highlights this observation. According to the findings of the study, people of my generation, millennials, are almost 60% to admit that they look at their phone while eating. A figure that climbs for the next generation, Generation Z, of which 81% admit that they cannot have a meal without taking a look at their phone.
In 2020, a french study confirmed that the use of the smartphone at the table was a source of family conflict for 68% of respondents. The statistical survey also showed that more than one out of two French people (55%) answered the telephone and sent text messages at the table for multiple reasons: “lack of interesting topics of conversation at the table” (17 %), pour “the need for responsiveness of social networks” (24%), but also, in the case of the youngest and children, because “adults set a bad example by using their phones themselves at the table” (33 %).
It is a practice that undermines the idea of commensality, of the pleasure of spending time at the table with loved ones, and which has no positive effects on health. Quite the contrary, even. In 2020, a study revealed that using a phone while eating promoted weight gain and increased “the number of calories ingested in young people”. And don’t talk to me regarding the telephone on the table, but turned over as if to ensure that we wouldn’t look at it, which is false, as my colleague Benjamin Bruel had perfectly explained.
“A damn scourge that any good lover of groceries and cheese and charcuterie boards must fight. For what ? Because the mobile turned once morest the table is a lie. He tries to make his interlocutor believe that we are there, firmly anchored in the conversation, present to listen to the other, but this is not true. This desire to take a look at what is happening on our 6.5-inch screen is too big and, invariably, we will reach out discretos to return the mobile. It will last a few seconds, barely, but the damage will be done”, he dropped, like a bomb, in a well-spiced editorial.
But do not see in this article a reactionary outburst once morest our cadets, because they are not the only ones to indulge in these practices at the table. In a recent post of MondeI learned of the existence ofa studyeven older, dated 2015, which revealed that 50% of parents were ready to admit that they sometimes “Let themselves be distracted by their mobile during their discussions with their child”, but especially that 36% looked at it during meals. But the article raises an even more crucial issue: what if the behavior of the youngest with their phones was ultimately our fault, the older ones? And so, “and if the problem of the screens was due to the parents?”.
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