While waiting in line, do other people peek over your shoulder to see what's on your phone? (house, conversation)

[fluffythewondercat]

I was at Walgreen's the other day queued up with a few chatty women. Another woman joined the line and joined the conversation. Having nothing further to contribute, I turned away and started looking at photos of our new home on my phone. There's a 3D app on Zillow that I hadn't been able to get to work on my laptop but I saw it was working on my phone.

So I'm doing 360 degree views of various areas in the house when a voice says, "House hunting?" I said no, this is the house we bought a few weeks ago.

I wasn't offended by the intrusion but it got me to thinking later how maybe our eyes are involuntarily drawn to those little glowing screens and maybe we don't realize it. Do people try to look at your phone?

[HokieFan]

Originally Posted by fluffythewondercat

I was at Walgreen's the other day queued up with a few chatty women. Another woman joined the line and joined the conversation. Having nothing further to contribute, I turned away and started looking at photos of our new home on my phone. There's a 3D app on Zillow that I hadn't been able to get to work on my laptop but I saw it was working on my phone.

So I'm doing 360 degree views of various areas in the house when a voice says, "House hunting?" I said no, this is the house we bought a few weeks ago.

I wasn't offended by the intrusion but it got me to thinking later how maybe our eyes are involuntarily drawn to those little glowing screens and maybe we don't realize it. Do people try to look at your phone?

People are inherently curious (aka nosey ) so it wouldn't surprise me if they have. However, no one has ever made a comment to me about it.

[krosser100]

I do quick side turns every once in awhile when on my phone, as if to see something from the side, but it's a way to combat peering eyes.

A few times I've caught the motion of someone quickly turning away, so I presume they were looking at my direction, whether at my phone who knows.

I usually position my phone that people can't really see over.

Where do you live that 1) Walgreens has long lines 2) people "join in line conversations"?

[SWFL_Native]

Perfectly acceptable in a public place anything being displayed is fair game.

If you don’t like it go read your twitter feed in privacy.

[petsandgardens]

Someone was looking at mine out of the corner of her eye a couple of days ago. Not sure why people are really drawn to look, yet do it surreptitiously. I could see this woman look quick out of the corner of her eye at my phone, look straight down, look quick at my phone, look straight down. She got into it so that she didn't notice me look at her out of the corner of my own eye. She was looking at my phone and frowning a little like she was trying to figure out what she was even looking at on my phone. So I helped her out and enlarged it. I had no doubt she was looking at my phone when she gasped and moved away quickly. I was looking at pix of the copperhead I had recently come across.

[fluffythewondercat]

Originally Posted by krosser100

Where do you live that 1) Walgreens has long lines 2) people "join in line conversations"?

Silicon Valley.

[fluffythewondercat]

Originally Posted by petsandgardens

I was looking at pix of the copperhead I had recently come across.

Maybe she initially thought it was a trouser snake.

[krosser100]

This post of people looking at others' phones reminded me of an incident earlier in the year when a lady saw the man next to her on the plane texting mean things about her...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ntervened.html

[Tencent]

Yes I typically dim my screen when I'm viewing sensitive information or wait until nobody is around to mobile banking.

[VexedAndSolitary]

Originally Posted by fluffythewondercat

I was at Walgreen's the other day queued up with a few chatty women. Another woman joined the line and joined the conversation. Having nothing further to contribute, I turned away and started looking at photos of our new home on my phone. There's a 3D app on Zillow that I hadn't been able to get to work on my laptop but I saw it was working on my phone.

So I'm doing 360 degree views of various areas in the house when a voice says, "House hunting?" I said no, this is the house we bought a few weeks ago.

I wasn't offended by the intrusion but it got me to thinking later how maybe our eyes are involuntarily drawn to those little glowing screens and maybe we don't realize it. Do people try to look at your phone?

Rude and irritating. I don't carry a phone (strange I know) with me and use a pc as a phone at home so this would never happen to me BUT if it did I would be pissed.

I always avert my eyes when near someone using a phone so as to NOT see what they're doing; I'm big into boundaries like that.

How pathetically desperate for human interaction must someone be to look at a stranger's phone and COMMENT on what is displyed thereon.