Screen Scowler Gifts

A frowning man looks at a smiling screen

The Googler

"The batteries in his TV remote died. The shock of not being able to use it for two minutes has put him in a temporary state of shock."

"I'm bored."

"Since he got that thing, he mostly just kills time."

'It was a real scroller. I couldn't put down my screen.'

'John is watching the game under protest.'

A baseball player is too busy checking his smartphone to catch a ball.

"Honey, are we watching TV or is it watching us?"

Technology and literature

Romans.

'They might as well sleep all day - all they do is stare at that screen.'

Nethead strip: Over doing the time spent on the computer

A sign outside a bookstore reads: "Meet the people in the bookstore cafe staring at their laptops 2-4 p.m."

"That's a zombie, alright. But he's the worst kind. He doesn't eat brains, he eats data."

"Today I'm going to search and scroll and swipe and binge."

Better Living Through Technology

'You're not interrupting anything...the four of us are just sitting around before dinner...Barbara, me and our two phones.'

50% looking at phone, 50% looking for phone

"I have to get this project finished."

"If I admit I'm bored with looking at my phone every minute of the day, will I be considered a traitor by my generation?"

"Wanna go scroll on our phones at the gym?"

"Can Ethan come out to swipe and scroll?"

Why god isn't listening...

'Watch the news with the sound turned off. You're suffering from information overload.'

'I occasionally need to read my tweets to remember what I was doing.'

'Will this job requirer me to look up from my phone?'

Worshiping the TV.

Human evolution