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I have actually hated Smartphones since the time I heard of them, and my hatred for them has only increased with time.
I see too many people substituting texting for talking (in person or by the phone), the writing skills of young people have decreased (from what I have seen), and too many people are now expecting everyone to have a Smartphone, plus I personally hate them because I have very fat sausage fingers and cannot type on the damn things. I also resent the fact that many grocery stores now only offer discounts to those with their apps on their phones, which I think is a form of discrimination -- and especially to old people who are less likely to have any kind of Smartphone (based on what I have read, anyway).
And like most electronics these days, they are terribly expensive and I think that they are 'outdated' in a matter of months. I refuse to have one and will continue to refuse to get one unless I am forced to do so.
Pew Research....over 70% of seniors have embraced smartphones.
ROFL....I have said as much to my sister who loves her gadgets.
"You have to clean 9 appliances while I only have to clean a peeler and a knife".
I bought a chopping gadget, and it had like 4 separate pieces you had to remove and clean individually, otherwise the food would stay in there and mold. Big pain in the keester which is why I never use it. "My way" involves just a knife and a small piece of maple I cut out of a log with a chainsaw and sanded flat several years ago. When the surface is all used up, I just sand it again, apply food safe oil if desired, and it's as good as new.
New technologies always have positive impacts on society?
The invention of the cotton gin is thought to have upheld and expanded the use of slavery, in the south. I do not see that as a positive impact...
You raise an excellent point there. Any new technology can be misused or further an existing problem (like slavery) so the question then is what is the time frame?
Eventually we have moved past legal slavery and the advances of mechanization has freed many from huge amounts of toil and back breaking labor.
So for the here and now it may be bad, but if we were to step back and look at 10k+ years of human history I'd say it was a big positive.
Good and bad.....some of them slave owners would have told you the good.
Doesn't mean I advocate for all new technologies or innovations...but there is always good and bad.
Another very good point. There can be some that have both positive and negative effects that are persistent and will always be part and parcel of a new technology.
I haven't read the entire thread but has anybody brought up the irony of people complaining about phones and social media, on a social media site? Forums are just a more primitive avenue that seriously limits multi-media interactions.
Try telling other people that... Everyone gets mad when someone does not immediately answer the phone or respond to a text message.
You let them set their expectations too high.
The advice I gave is practically ancient. It came around after cellphones first became common, long before smartphones.
It's there for YOUR convenience, and nobody else's. You're not paying a bunch of money every month to be at everyone's beck and call - you're paying it to have the ability to use the device when YOU want/need to.
None of my friends or family assume I'll answer the phone or see a text right away. I do check who's calling, but don't always answer, even if it's someone I know. I'm reachable in an emergency through other means, so immediate attention isn't necessary every time my phone makes a sound.
Pew Research....over 70% of seniors have embraced smartphones.
I said LESS likely. My guess -- and this is ONLY a guess -- that probably at least 90% of those between the ages of about 16 and 60 either have smartphones or want them. (I would look it up, but I don't care enough to do so.)
I have not read other posts, nor can give an educated view of how our society/culture has devolved into where we are today.
That said, having nothing to do with my baseline intelligence, a orthopedists who was evaluating my discomfort in a particular limb said, and I quote, "we are now all suffering with tech neck".
Admittedly I do spend a disproportionate number of hours on the computer, but rest assured my time looking down at the phone equates to maybe 10 minutes per day.
Does that equal out to the average person spending endless amount of hours to bending their necks into unhealthy bending of their spines, causing medical maladies?
Who knows
If this is a phenomenon, which I agree with (despite my limited use of social media), as I suspect he is correct, we had better find a solution to the problem, before we start devolving, compared to our ancestors.
The internet is one of the signs of the apocalypse.
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