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pseydtonne  ·  3822 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Shame of Smart Phones

Those are not the same tells, even though the heads are both pointing downward. The head angle is different, but more importantly: look at the edges of the mouth.

If you take the head-tilt out of each picture and imagine you are looking straight on at each person, you would see two different faces.

The person in the first picture has no tension in his lips. His eye lids are half down, allowing him to be in thought.

The person in the second picture has tension in his mouth and open eyes. He is in an active mode, as if he were speaking what he is texting. His focus is in the device, not inside his head.