Wellingtonians - Most Lovely by yaorenliu

Wellingtonians - Most Lovely

Yes, it is 21st century, on 13th January 2025.
Great candid shot
January 13th, 2025  
Wonderful candid capture without cellphones! They seem to be students studying for exams ;-)
January 13th, 2025  
I wonder what the difference is if they had phones. I don't mean intellectually, but in the relationship. Why would scrolling have been worse?
Don't get me wrong. I love this sight. And I love sitting with significant others, each immersed in a book.
January 13th, 2025  
@monikozi interesting, but reading books are just better. I use my phone to read library books. No problems with phone, but I do worry that people read less in depth and put too much trust in social media that is often biased.
January 13th, 2025  
my laptop was unavailable while i was redecorating my bedroom and i read books to relax it was great, dont know why i dont turn it off more often!
January 13th, 2025  
@yaorenliu Definitely the content is different and that is the important part. The engagement with a book is completely different than with an electronic device (even e-readers feel different to me). But I was wondering about the hate that's being spread against 2 people engaged in their phones, and not towards people engaged in books or newspapers (I know these are such scarce these days, but there used to be a time when meals were served with a newspaper by the plate..., and there was no hate there).
January 13th, 2025  
A bit sad when people having meals together but reading their own newspapers. Yes, we can be too judgemental. @monikozi
January 13th, 2025  
Nicely captured
January 13th, 2025  
So nice to see young people reading books! Great photo.
January 13th, 2025  
Nice catch. What haunts me here is the visual impression that those pipes on the left (the end of the gutter?) look like the eyes of some robot surreptitiously trying to read from the book as well 😂
January 13th, 2025  
@aleksandra_julia Aaahaaahaaaa!!!!
January 13th, 2025  
@kali66 Kali, your comment made me think on the fact that everyone is blaming the tv networks, the social media companies for 'stealing' the time. And in fact the power is all in our hands, actualy at a single finger tip with which to press a single button. Isn't that amazing?
January 13th, 2025  
Nice (and so rare) to see! Fav
January 14th, 2025  
It looks unique to me. They aren’t looking at devices.
January 14th, 2025  
@kali66 Enjoy your readings.
January 14th, 2025  
A fabulous sight but reading proper books is the new thing among the young, I see it on the tube all the time! So good to see
January 22nd, 2025  
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