Family commlinks - really? Options

[Daddy's Litt...]

The 4th ed rules on comm links and the fluff advetising project an image I find really scarey. You could have a family of four all sitting around of an evening, zoning out to their own shows and interacting not at all. Just sitting silent. I know the idea is from seeing teens zoning out with ear buds in but would family's really go this way? Do you have games where it happens or are those just the really rich or really poor who go that way?

RL I have two small children and yes there are times, like when they go to bed that I bless the silence BUT the noise of the evening in our house is noise and there is a music to it that I would miss, the tv on the girls playing, the girls fighting, their father sorting it out and them trying to act like nothing happened and so on. All the normal stuff that is a family. I think it's more likely they would have the trid going and parents telling teens, as they have for decades, "You will spend the time with your family."