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I used to see this in Japan on the train/train station. Hundreds of people staring down at their cell phone.
I thought it was weird. Then, I started seeing it in the USA. Cell phones are great, but I really think they harm interactive communication. Oh, well.
Back in the day, there seemed to be more interaction with people. Now, it's memes and texts and etc. Seems like the world has lost something. Maybe, it's just me.
We got a new hire at work. I was supposed to be training him. Every few, 5? 10?, minutes, he's checking his phone. My shift leader asked me how he was doing. I said, "If I can pry him away from his phone, I think he'll be OK." He said, " I noticed that, I'll talk to him about it." I'm 42 years old. Cell phones to me are a tool. Like a hammer. To some people, it's like, their whole life is attached to a gadget.
I'd argue that making and receiving phone calls is no longer a cell phones primary function. Cell phones are pretty much computers in your pocket nowadays, Actually making a call and speaking into them seems.... a bit primitive now. Personally, I hate talking on a cell phone. I'd much rather text.
See I guess I'm old school when it comes to communicating.. I will text, and don't get me wrong I do use my email a lot at work, but in the end, I'd rather talk. Not to mention texting on my phone isn't that efficient.
See I guess I'm old school when it comes to communicating.. I will text, and don't get me wrong I do use my email a lot at work, but in the end, I'd rather talk. Not to mention texting on my phone isn't that efficient.
Yeah, texting just gives you more of an opportunity to think about what you want to say and how you want to say it or even IF you want to say anything back at all. Admittedly it isn't a very efficient use of time. What takes me about 2 or 3 minutes to type out in a text would only take about 5 seconds to say. Texting has it's advantages and it's disadvantages I guess.
I used to see this in Japan on the train/train station. Hundreds of people staring down at their cell phone.
I thought it was weird. Then, I started seeing it in the USA. Cell phones are great, but I really think they harm interactive communication. Oh, well.
Back in the day, there seemed to be more interaction with people. Now, it's memes and texts and etc. Seems like the world has lost something. Maybe, it's just me.
We got a new hire at work. I was supposed to be training him. Every few, 5? 10?, minutes, he's checking his phone. My shift leader asked me how he was doing. I said, "If I can pry him away from his phone, I think he'll be OK." He said, " I noticed that, I'll talk to him about it." I'm 42 years old. Cell phones to me are a tool. Like a hammer. To some people, it's like, their whole life is attached to a gadget.
My cell phone is always in my shirt pocket. It is a TELEPHONE, nothing more.
I do not text.
Everybody I know is aware that I often don't remember how to access my voice mail, so they don't leave any.
I do not send emails with the cell, that's what the computer is for.
Again, it is a telephone.
Oh, wait, it does have a rather handy LED flashlight glued to the back of it, so it is a telephone and a flashlight.
Why is the cell phone so addicting?
Because it is a means to continually announce "I'm Here!" "I count!" "I have a life!" "I'm Special!"
All that shows a lot of insecurity to me. Personal insecurity and societal insecurity. From the numbers of cell phone addicts, our cultural insecurities must be very wide and deep these days.
I'm like most of the posters to this. I don't own a cell phone, and never have. But my children all have them, although none are junkies, and my sister, brothers, and most of my extended family have them. One is certainly a texting junky who would rather text than talk on hers.
A good friend is equally a cell phone junky and an equally strong face to face communicator. His iPhone replaced a laptop he habitually carried, but he could always turn off his device and never miss it. All it is to him is a wonderful aide to his business, which is international. He restricts his cell phone calls when he's 'out of the office' except for calls to personal friends, but his 'office' is wherever he is for most of the day.
On my last trip to visit my sons, who both live over 500 miles away, I found I was pretty helpless without a cell phone. I've come to realize that at my age, and living alone, a cell phone could be a lifesaver for me, and could be very helpful as a navigator, a weather forecaster, and many other useful functions that I could really need these days, so I'm reluctantly thinking of getting one, and the phone will have all the whiz-bangs when I buy it.
But I doubt very much I'll ever become an addict. It will be just another useful tool. I'm a geezer, so all my other communications skills are as developed as they'll ever be, and they have served me well enough.
I wonder how the kids will fare, though. I don't think keeping in second by second contact with friends and family is a healthy or natural thing, and doing so only increases a lack of self assurance and increases anxiety. I also believe it makes some mental conditions, such as OCD, very much worse than it needs to be.
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I drove from Seattle to Georgia, then navigated my "roving IT repair guy' contract job in Florida, then drove to my job in Virginia using nothing but the Mapquest app on my Iphone. That would've take a carload worth of paper maps - and much more time, back in the day. Using maps that might not even be current. Even better, it's FREE.
That flashlight app has saved my bacon too many times to count. Power goes off? Flashlight in your Phone!
They do come in real handy. But if I lost it tomorrow, I would survive.
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