Joe Pisani: Do selfies make us lose focus? Joe Pisani FacebookTwitterEmail Pope Francis poses with youth in the Church of Saint Augustine in downtown Rome on Aug. 28, 2013.AFP /Getty Images While I was driving through New England after 10 inches of snow fell, I passed two young people who skid down the hill and plowed into three garbage cans before hitting a fence post. They looked OK. They looked better than the car. They must have been OK because instead of checking her boyfriend for bruises or picking up the garbage or trying to get the car out of the ditch, the girl was taking selfies with her cellphone.