I'm new here and would like your opinion
 

To any concert goers here, I'd like your feedback. What feelings do you have towards concert goers using their smartphone flashlight as the new lighter? Do you like it/dislike it? Do you see a lot of it?

I'd be happy to explain my thoughts further if anyone here wants to have the conversation.

Thanks!

Lighters weren't really ever an actual thing. That **** happened on TV or strictly at Guns N Roses concerts. Phones however are a thing. My opinion is get your f*cking phone out of my sight line and live your life. You can quote me in whatever school paper you're writing.

Well, most cell phones are less likely to set things ablaze than lighters are, so that's a positive.

But like Exo said, if you shine that sh!t in my face, I'm going to punch you in your face.

You not only look lame but you make the concert look lame and by extension make the artist look lame.

My ex wife was like that, where she had to take pictures with her phone EVERYWHERE we went. We couldn't go to eat at the f*cking Olive Garden without her making a photoshoot out of it. And me, not being photogenic or caring, didn't want to participate, which led to many an argument. She walked out and left me at a restaurant once because I didn't want her snapping flash photos. Everyone there thought she was insane.

But it can make your snapchat look lit.

The lighter is the only way to convert any performance that you're at into Wake Me Up When September Ends.

F*ck that noise. It's Free Bird or we riot!

Yes I see a lot of it and find it irritating, as most people do. Hopefully a passing trend. It's extremely distracting to both audience and the performer, moreso than a lighter or even the dim screen of a digital camera was 15 years ago.

I hate seeing cell phones at shows. It comes from this deep human need to be known - we want people to know we were at the cool thing. But the people taking pictures the whole time are sacrificing a real connection they could have with the artist by being emotionally present.

Cellphones as replacements for lighters are even more obnoxious to me. Lighters are for smoking weed, phone lights are for going to the bathroom in the middle of the night.

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Basically the same thing lol

You're dead to me.

Any positive feedback a band get from the audience is a plus for the band. But it can be a plus also for an individual witnessing the crowds reaction to the band. And I guess if someone is doing the same thing people around are doing, he or she feels part of something bigger. That is the whole point of the concert is to pick up positive vibes from the band and other fans. So if I see people holding up phones as lighters, it doesn't bother me. I see them as being caught up in the moment, and enjoying themselves.

However are they only using a smartphone as flashlights? You know they do that for a slow song near the end of the concert, but what about the rest of the concert? Did you ever think in what other capacities they are using their smartphones at a concert? It's also very possible they making a video recording of the concert or checking social-media. They could be chatting with a friend via test messages. When I see people play with their phones at a concert or any event where they had to pay for admission, I wonder what was so import that they are missing out on the experience of being there. It seem like a manifestation of an addiction to their phones when people can't put down and pay attention to what they payed for to see. I am not annoyed by it, but it doesn't make sense to me either.