It's a minority opinion but you're certainly not alone in that initial emotional reaction. I think the problem is framing it as "video screenage" and therefore something like a TV screen at a bar. It's nothing of the sort. It's silent and mostly static, much more like a lit up bulletin board than a TV. It just displays text, and the text often doesn't move for hours at a time, when nobody is texting to it. Like a dartboard, it can hang in the backround, easy to ignore, until some people decide to play with it for a while.
A number of people react as if it's a TV or something like a TV when they first hear about it or see it, at most new venues, but it usually doesn't last, because the actual reasons they don't like screens don't apply. Some still don't like them, of course, but from what I've seen they're a very small minority. (I watch the message traffic, but I also hang out at the venues and hear people talk about the screens - I did that a lot at Someday when that one first went in)
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Date: 2006-05-16 05:30 pm (UTC)A number of people react as if it's a TV or something like a TV when they first hear about it or see it, at most new venues, but it usually doesn't last, because the actual reasons they don't like screens don't apply. Some still don't like them, of course, but from what I've seen they're a very small minority. (I watch the message traffic, but I also hang out at the venues and hear people talk about the screens - I did that a lot at Someday when that one first went in)