I still use a Nokia 3585 for my personal cell.
My employer makes me use an iphone and I hate it.
So sad. Mrs p6 and I both have smartphones.
The key is self control.
That hasn’t been taught by parents or especially public schools for 40+ years.
TURN IT OFF!
Just reset the date to January 1, 1970?
How come all these people with "smart" phones never seem to be able to turn them off?
They all have voicemail, right? Shut the dang thing off and check messages later.
No one says you have to be available 24 x 7 just because someone wants to text you or speak with you.
Turn them OFF!
I have an old flip phone. It is designed to make... phone calls. Works for me. It can text, but I don’t.
I don’t miss dialup modems and pagers and such..
Once everyone has their control&communication chips implanted..
They’ll fade off into the wastebins of bygone memories.
Will the Universe be better for it?
Ask the Ancient Ones.
Yup. That’s why I’ve never had one. Just not interested in being touch with the world all the time. In fact one of the things I enjoy is being OUT of touch with the world. When I go out with the wife to dinner or a movie we go to dinner or a movie, there’s nothing in our world other than each other and our “mission”. Yeah every once in a while it would be nice, when I can’t read the grocery list, or decide to stop somewhere the wife might want something from too, but all those situations are easily handled the old fashioned way (fix it the next time). Just don’t see the draw, and do see the addiction.
My 21-year-old son texted me last night to say his brother was throwing up. My phone was sitting at home on the counter, as it is half the time when I’m out. With no rescue available, my son figured out the cleanup on his own.
Honey, if you think your smartphone is ruining your life and you just gotta get rid of it, do it! However, if you lack control that causes the addiction in the first place, you have bigger psych problems than the dang phone.
I am now a single husband. My wife is on hers constantly.
I have an iPhone, but the only sound I have activated is for actual calls. I check texts and emails when I get around to it-3-4 times a day, maybe. Otherwise, it drives me crazy.
My concern with cellphones is their impact on youth. They are completely and utterly addicted to them, so much that often their attention spans have contracted and it is almost impossible for them to slow down and read a book. I drove across a college campus the other day. While stopped at a stop light, I watched as the students walked by. I did not see one single student without a phone, either talking on it, texting on it, or fooling with it. In the classroom, asking them to turn off their phones is tantamount to turning off their oxygen supply. Many of them will tell you that they don’t have to read a book. If they need to know something, they just look it up on the web.
We have a new desk top, an old lap top and a ten year old flip phone that’s not compatible with the Bluetooth on either of our vehicles.
And we are perfectly happy.
What a load of rubbish. If your smartphone controls your life, it is because you let it.
If my phone rings or a text message comes in, I feel completely comfortable simply ignoring it.
I use it when I want, and how I want.
I would have had the person text me the address. I would have put it in the GPS when I got in the car. Done. I think person still doesn’t use technology right.
Who cares about the addiction? It is simply another string that ties us to being slaves for the FedGov, that’s all they are. I don’t own a cellphone. Like this writer, I used to. Used to be quite the tech savvy type, which is exactly what turned me to the luddite side. I don’t like being found. I don’t like being spied on, and I just don’t like people in general. If it’s really that important, I’ll find you. Lol.
When people give up stuff, they become really sanctimonious about it.