I just don't like the people trying to rationalize their playing of the game to me when it is all B.S.Actually, the BMW could very well be safer than the Chevy. Rationalizations go the other way, too.
I don't play the game anymore, but why does this have to be black/white to you? It's not as if most people never saw the light of day and never socialized outside before Pokemon Go came along.
Yes, socializing. I've had some pleasant conversations with people I'd never met before, sitting in a nearby park where somebody had put up some lures. And this pattern has repeated a number of times for me personally and I've heard many similar stories from others. Playing Ingress, which is Niantic's predecessor to Pokémon Go (in some ways, PoGo is a mere re-skin of Ingress), I met a whole bunch of people, some of whom are now very close friends. Socializing doesn't have to only involve bars, sporting events, or alcohol, you know.
Because people have to be idiots and morons to care about different things than you?
I challege you to find a post where I have defended Apple....let alone with insane rationalizations.
If you are doing idiotic or moronic things like the examples I listed...yes! If you play the game like a normal human being...than I have nothing to say...enjoy the game.
Yep! Why, in my day, we didn't have any Pokeymans or smartyphones, we just had a stick! and a rock! and we liked it that way! and if you like something other than a stick or a rock, you're suspicious and wrong and I'm clearly better than you!
Instead, you have to stare at the road in front of you. I don't call that a significant difference myself.
Sorry, I missed the idiot qualifier after fully functional human being.
OMG have I actually liked a fan boy, Apple apologist, crazy Apple rationalization comment??????
That must have been a dark day. I hate watch bands!!!!! 
You're getting real actual first-hand reports from other forum members saying they're involved in, and seeing, a lot of socializing, but USA Today (who surely has absolutely no interest in sensationalizing a story to sell their papers or website) is telling you of some incidents of people getting it wrong. Why do you so strongly believe the latter over the former? Are you so certain that everyone who reports socializing is clearly an isolated freak incident and the news site has The Real Truth?
Ah, but the real question is, did you both pick the same team in PoGo, or are you set up to be bitter rivals six months down the line?
You seem to be trying hard to make me seem like I am trying hard. And don't twist my words around to suit your posting agenda. I never said what you have in quotes.
The stories about unfortunate things that happen to people playing the game are a legit thing about which to be concerned...but they probably represent the tiniest fraction of players. Anything popular has its edge cases where nutty or dangerous things happen. I expect almost all of the players are having fun and being safe.
Anecdotal, but my daughter was visiting me when the game came out, and several times when she would come back in from going out and playing the game, she had stories about how groups of otherwise strangers would be bonding over the game, helping each other out with where they could find Pokemon to catch. There seems to be a level of interaction.
