I'm considering tossing the smartphone for the quiet simple life.

[pstall]

It seems nowadays our smartphones have become our pets. We take them everywhere and we treat them better than some people. We feed them(charge) all day long.

 

In traffic you see the soft glow of the phone. Hop on a light rail and almost 90% of the people are in their own world. Wireless indeed. No connection.

 

Don't get me wrong. The one thing I love the most is Pandora and maybe I need to figure out a way to get it on my car radio but my cell plan is draining my wallet and me.

 

Do I really need updates every nano second from 500 sources?

 

Talk me out of it Huddle. Approach the bench and make your argument for or against.

 

Keep in mind we are living in a time where people are TAKING PICTURES OF THEIR FOOD. FOOD.

 

 

[Dpantherman]

I'd love to, but it's like crack cocaine and I've got the sniffles.

[scpanther22]

I read a paper not too long ago about what looking at screens all the time does to the brain..crazy stuff.

[Anybodyhome]

Lose the smartphone and get yourself a real life telephone. You know, those things that allow you converse with someone not right next you.

 

Or go total revolution and refuse to communicate with anyone unless it's done face-to-face. I really miss those days, I actually like to talk with people....

[pstall]

Exactly. The smartphones are a high tech version of the Southern phrase "fixin too". We read and comment on so many things that OTHERS seem to be doing.

 

I don't know. I had a epiphany about two weeks ago about time best spent and doing things i enjoy.

 

A interesting indication of how far we come(or gone down) with our usuage of cell phones is memory. Not the phones but our own. I use to could memorize close to a dozen phone #'s. Now I'm lucky if I remember 2 or 3. I have to look at my phone.

 

Also, there is something cool and serendipitous about getting lost and having to ask for directions if your map doesn't get you where you want to go. You meet cool and interesting people and end up off the beaten path to perhaps a better place than your original destination.

 

Maybe it's my contrarian blood.

[Anybodyhome]

The simple fact we have a piece of technology that doesn't allow us to get lost, that doesn't force us to remember phone numbers, that gives us an easy out if we don't want to talk right now... instead we text or email or tweet.

 

We've lost the ability to talk to people, we've lost the ability to separate ourselves from anything outside our homes, we don't shut down and read books anymore, we don't do anything without a phone, notebook or some device beeping with every email, text, Facebook update, tweet, Instagram, etc...

[pstall]

preach it ABH

[CatofWar]

I was actually thinking about this last night after smoking some dank ass poo. I was sitting on the couch and my phone was beeping and whistling. I thought about when Ricky Williams left football And moved out in the cut. He cut all ties except for an internet connection.

I say go for it. Trade your phone for a fat sack.

[Jangler]

I never take my phone anywhere, I treat it like a landline.

[Ja Rhule]

Let me know where u toss it... I'll pick it up.

[KSpan]

I never take my phone anywhere, I treat it like a landline.

Exactly - maybe just put it down once in a while.

[Lemory]

       Smartphones are today's version of this.

[TheRumGone]

if it means you post less on the Huddle then yes toss it

 

:)

[TalbotPillington]

thank you so much for sharing ....