Hiding Behind Technology (Essay Sample)

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Hiding behind technology
A coffee shop is an establishment that mainly serves hot coffee or other close beverages like tea. Some cafes also may be serving light food like snacks and pastries and they range from single person operated enterprises to large companies. A coffee shop may share features with a bar at times and may offer flavored tobacco or sometimes espresso drinks. From a cultural viewpoint, a coffee shop may serve as a place for social interaction where people or friends congregate to talk, read or be entertained to pass time as they drink. The development of a Wi-Fi has also seen some coffee shops own one and use it as an incentive for customers who would wish to surf as they take their drinks.
There are also television sets for customers to watch as entertainment. Most are times that people who are alone are seen with phones busy staring at them. Some can be seen with headphones connected to these phones and are probably listening to something, let us say music. Some customers in the coffee shop could be staring at TVs all the time as they take their drinks and never look elsewhere. Even when people who are alone are done with their drinks, they would just turn to their iPADs, smart phones or a TV and avoid the pe...