Besides classically immoral content being made accessible to everyone from 6 years upwards.
I use a desktop, and even a laptop will bot suffice for what I want to do, but while I could use a smartphone, I am not looking to spend more time on it if I can get out and do something productive or beneficial, as the Lord enables.
“I use a desktop, and even a laptop will bot suffice for what I want to do, but while I could use a smartphone, I am not looking to spend more time on it if I can get out and do something productive or beneficial, as the Lord enables.”
You have exceeded your daily ration of commas.
I noticed a drastic a change at the office, on the road and personal relationships after smartphones became common. And not for the better
I have to admit that my cat has expressed the opinion that I must stop petting the smart phone and instead pay more attention to that cat!
Three Hundred Frickin' Million Dollar study. Put down that damn phone. That doesn't cost a dime.
I must be in the minority but my phone spends most of the time in the bathroom on the charger unless I get a call or need to go out and have google maps handy.
How many times have we left home and then realized we forgot the iphone -—— and WENT BACK to get it!!??
300 million bucks to tell us smartphones are making people dumber. Ressurect Bill Proxmire!
That’s why my kids get only 2 hours of screen time a week. And most of that is tv on Saturdays. That rule was broken during the online teaching during quarantine
It’s hard for me to imagine someone looking back from the year 2050 and thinking to themselves that smart phones were this really great thing for society and culture.
Freegards
Baby pacifiers 2020. Useful at times, but when they become a device to control/track/locate Americans who are warning of techno-tyranny...well, WATCHOUT.
Siri...locate PGalt. Eliminate PGalt. Send in the drones. There ought to be drones....
I have a smartphone, but sometimes I wish I had kept my far less expensive flip phone. The only time I really use my smartphone is when I’m driving—checking for congested freeways or seeking an address.
I thought texting would be easier on a smartphone than on a flip phone, but I still find it to be agonizingly slow. I’d much rather use a keyboard to send an e-mail message over a regular computer than to hunt-and-peck on the tiny smartphone computer to compose my message.
About 12 years ago, my wife was complaining to her group of Bible study women, that she never heard from grandkids, grown kids and relatives across the nation/world.
Every woman in that 12 woman group advised her to get a smart phone and start texting her relatives/friends and bury her old flip phone. That every young person texted and usually got back to your texts in a short time.
Several of that group recommended Tracfone for economy and good phone prices. Her old flip phone and mine were Tracfones.
So it was a simple thing to do. Buy a new Tracfone/smartphone for each of us. She spent a few days entering cell #’s or home #’s. I had less than a dozen #’s to enter.
She cautiously got into the texting waters.
She texted our family people first and her church friends and a few longtime friends.
Everyone she texted, texted her back quickly.
One interesting one was an adult son, who is like an electronic hermit. He texted her back in minutes. Turns out that he prefers texting as the first and often only step in business and personal communication.
A few weeks later using texting, she set up a Holiday dinner with who was bringing what in less than a half hour. That process usually took several days. She was sold on texting at that time. She uses email with a few relatives/friends and me.
After about a month a smartphone addict relative convinced my wife to go to facebook. Most of her friends/relatives advised her not to use FB. In less than a week, she dropped out of FB.
She might spend an hour each morning to read and reply to her messages/emails. Then, she checks her text/emails during the lunch hour and after dinner.
Nobody’s smiling at anyone now, since mask wearing is mandatory.
I appreciate my smart phone as a safety device when I drive the back roads of TN a few times a week. It’s an insurance kind of thing. I can contact someone in an emergency, and I do a “share location” with DH while I’m on the road so if he has to locate me, he can.
For occasional GPS, it’s good. Other than that, phone and texting is about all I use it for. Shopping, banking, email ... NFW!”
I know there are a bazillion more uses and apps but I don’t care about them.
While reading this thread, I picked up my iPhone 7 times.
At last, I am a minority! Should I feel repressed?
Now, gibsmedat.