Holiday PSA: Unless you want your family to hate you, turn off your cellphone
November 25, 2014
This Thanksgiving, betwixt turkey, football and circuitous political squabbles with your least-favorite aunt, you may be tempted to glance under the food-laden table and sneak a glimpse at your cellphone. A timely PSA: Don’t do it.
Not only because it will save you the ennui of a hundred thousand Instagrammed turkeys, but because your family will like you better for it, too. According to a new survey commissioned by Eventbrite, 66 percent of all Americans think phones have no place at the holiday table. And among the grand-parently set, that adversity only climbs higher: 85 percent of older women consider Thanksgiving cellphone use a scourge.
Holiday PSA: Unless you want your family to hate you, turn off your cellphone