Screen Viewing Gifts

Guy on beach watching scenery on tv screen.

"This isn't exactly what I had in mind when I told you to go outside and play."

The Googler

"The prostate biopsy shows your pain threshold is much higher than normal."

"They communicate through clicks and taps."

"I don't know what else we can do. He won't look up from the screen!"

"Here's something called "The Fifty Greatest Countdown Shows Ever!""

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

TV-Man

Cellphone Islands

A tourist watches a television on the back of a donkey

Proud of herself for "never owning a tv" Emily watches eight episodes of a mediocre tv show on her laptop while in bed.

Digital Fomo!

“If I start pressing these, I’ll never ever ever get out of here.”

Binge Watch

100 best beheadings

Tunnel of TV

"Baldo, why don't you turn that computer off and do something else?"

"Lately, I've been trying to spend less time staring at the glowing orb."

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

"No, I don't play. I just watch people play on the internet."

"Now that we have these Earthlings in our power, we can take over this planet!"

"I'll be glad when this is over and Sarah can be herself again."

Technology and literature

Shopper in grocery store sees TV dinners marked daytime and prime time.

"Why would I want to see anything that far away from my phone?"

"I'm so overloaded with emails, just one monitor wasn't enough to handle them all."

'He gets confused switching channels between the World series and NFL games.'

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

The Plasmas.

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

Oblivious at 20,000 Feet