Posted on 08/28/2017 11:28:36 PM PDT by upchuck
In 2017, you can walk down any street almost anywhere in the world and see more people looking down at their cell phones than those looking up.
Our cell phones are often the majority owners of both our eyeballs and our attention. And, its not that hard to see why.
Cell phones are the jack-of-all-trades tool. Within minutes, we can communicate with the masses, get directions for where we are headed, order dinner for the night, and find the net worth of Mark Wahlberg to squash that debate once and for all.
All of this resourcefulness on the part of our mobile device has not only made us attached to our phone, it has made us crave our phone.
Not too long ago, 60 Minutes featured a segment in which a former Google product manager, Tristan Harris, discussed how programmers in Silicon Valley have engineered our phones like a slot machine, something that we habitually need to check to see if we won a reward (ex. a red Facebook notification).
On the same show, psychologist Larry Rosen discussed his findings that revealed that the brain releases the hormone cortisol, a chemical that initiates a flight-or-fight response to danger, when someone spends too much time away from his or her phone. The result of the cortisol is that we become anxious and are compelled to peek at our phones.
"Eventually your goal is to get rid of that anxiety, so you check in," Rosen said.
LendEDU commissioned a months-long poll to put some statistical data behind these discomforting findings, and the results only further reinforce the theory.
(Excerpt) Read more at lendedu.com ...
sadly enough, this aging boomer would suffer anxiety too. mine’s a stupid, practically 0G, pay-as-you-go flip phone. I rarely use it, i don’t give out the number, and when i DO use it, it’s usually for really brief “update” type calls or sometimes inbound calls like “don’t forget to buy tomatoes”, but it has now become a major security blanket.
My only anxiety would be the inability to access my dog cams to check on the ‘kids’.
And coupons...gotta have my Michaels and Hobby Lobby coupons.
:)
what’s a cell phone? I hope to get through life never owning one-
Now lemme lose my computer on the other hand- and we have a problem huston-
Add earphones and you have walking zombies oblivious to the world around them.
Sort of like a Borg disconnected from the collective, they might suddenly have to face the trauma of individualism. No longer hearing the other voices. They just walk around bumping into walls and trying to assimilate whatever they can to reestablish their link to the hive mind.
The resident Apple shill/marketer went ballistic when I suggested that the majority of iFag phone useres just used the damn thing for social messaging.
Must be a local thing?
Yep, me too. PAYG flip phones, and the only reason I carry that is, you can’t find payphones anymore. Mostly outgoing calls, except the wife, or people on my contact list...otherwise, I don’t answer it.
But, I’m about to be 72 years old...retired, and seldom go out of the house.
I won’t be a slave to a “smart” phone.
From the Fast and Furious Gun Running Novel, Collateral Crimes:
Valdo grabbed Roberts by the shirt and pointed towards the creeks. “Listen to me. They’re right there.”
Roberts said, “Shut the hell up, you stupid son of a whore,” and walked away from Valdo. He put the phone back to his ear and said, “Who has a video?” but the phone exploded in his hand. He felt his ear. It was covered in blood. He turned and realized he was looking down the barrel of Valdo’s .45. He saw a flash.
Sounds like Mrs. Chandler.
Progressive pacifiers. Oh my.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wU1kTuVSUOw
Here, take these little yellow pills, crybaby comrade.
My kind of person!
:)
National chain of arts and crafts stores.
My happy places.
If Millennials want to stop their Cell Phone anxiety, I have the perfect solution.
Since they are a hapless, hopeless bunch of losers, they should shove their cell phones up their butts, not only to have a place to keep it with them, but to be closer to their brains.
The ability of the liberals to outdo themselves in STUPIDITY is unparallelled in human history. I think Darwin is going to win on his predictions for the fates of those like them.
Not into that sort of stuff, so ignore the comment if you wish,
Moronials
Speak for yourself, you dumb shiite kid.
Many of us do not turn the phone on unless we are leaving the house and need our spouse/family to be able to reach us.
Most fisherman offshore here use their cell phones to communicate, rather than use VHF marine radio. None are social networking, far as I can tell.
Strange as it may sound, we use cell phones as a glorified cordless phone, a device you may recall commonly used when you were still in diapers.
LOL! No kidding. I don’t have a cell but I NEED my computer. ;)
Michaels and Hobby Lobby? Two of the biggest nationwide craft stores! :)
Perhaps you aren't into crafting. ;)
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