Posted on 06/12/2020 9:58:36 AM PDT by EyesOfTX
My wife and I shut down cell phone usage at least an hour before we hit the bedroom. Cell phones are a sleep inhibitor and if someone needs to get in touch with us at a late hour, we’ll hear the notification from the other room.
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Our very own LS
Love the name Wild World of History. In the ‘80s when I was doing batch transmissions my receiving terminal name was “Wild and Wacky World of Wayne.”
When I turn on my phone I check FR first.
Never carry them and you’ve no problems worrying about abusing them.
Science has NOT shied away from stating unequivocally that a new text or new email targets the same part of the brain as sex, food and narcotics.
You get a hit of dopamine each and every time you get that ding that there’s a new text or email.
Like lab rats, we want that hit again and again so we keep checking.
Of course there are differences like no tremors and shakes and possible seizures from withdrawal.
I think!! :)
This is my one computer day for June!
......./s
This is my one computer day for June!
......./s
Here is the simplest of simple rules with regards to using the Internet on your little 2 x 3 device there
If you’re around any other human beings , especially your own family or children , you should not have your phone out at all
I’m talking about other human beings that you’re interacting with
In a restaurant you should never ever have your phone out. Period
If you’re out of doors , you should not be looking at your phone at all
Try to think of your phone this way - it is a telephone ! it is designed for you to be able to talk to other human beings
We live in a world where we numbly and blindly comply with those who seek to destroy freedom while we are distracted by our addiction to the sensual pleasures brought to us by our electronic devices.
I’m lucky as those things don’t affect me. I have lots to occupy my time and attention. However I love my iPhone not only because I’m a photographer but I moved away from my “homeland” three years ago so my family and all my friends are essentially inside my phone.
As for social media I’m currently in Twitter jail. Some snowflake got butthurt that I dared to post about the black on black killings last weekend in NYC and Chicago on Ricky Gervais’s post bashing those witless celebrities saying “I hear you.”
So I’m ok being off Twitter as I appealed but more it just makes me mad their rules are so skewed. I was accused of inciting violence or threatening. Only that I called them out for never talking about black on black crime!
Little me, maturing woman, in beautiful Georgia country just stating facts. Sitting here not a threat to anyone.
I get what you’re saying and agree on all point...but to think it’s just a telephone is deceiving ourselves. It is a very powerful (in some not so good ways, too) communications device. As a matter of fact, most people use these devices to communicate WITHOUT talking...just send a text, instant message, tweet, etc. Now, that being said...just like any other tool or device, there is a proper time and place for the use and that is dictated by the family (if not adult age) and societal norms and mores...and unfortunately, those norms and mores are changing...
I definitely have a phone problem & it’s FR’s fault.
Have a great weekend. Unless something major happens, I plan to confine any FR activity to GGG.
“Try to think of your phone this way - it is a telephone ! it is designed for you to be able to talk to other human beings”
But the only human beings I want to talk to are the ones on FR!
I stopped at
“Three Things
YOU Can Do!”
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Candy Crush you know.
Just missed That,
Dang!
Doing a Wash.
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I miss Rush,
Prayers up for
a Full Recovery!
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