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If you think of the bar, café, or restaurant as a place of conviviality, then finding it filling up with singles with their noses glued to a screen of whatever kind is disconcerting. The typical neighbourhood café in France is, above all, a place where people can meet other people - and there have been complaints that in some districts this is no longer the case, and that anyone attempting to have a chat will be frowned upon by the screen junkies who now have taken over the shop.
So it may be no bad thing that *some* bars and coffee shops remain off-limits to intensive screen users - and maybe even to the kind of people who think it's all right to break off conversation with you to answer their cell-phone for a ten minute chat with another acquaintance.
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