Smart Phone Obsession

[FunInTheSunParticipant 8283]

I admit it: I don’t have a smart phone. I know nothing about them and all the great features they have—so I think I must be missing out on a lot of cool stuff. If I had one, I’d probably enjoy having the internet at my fingertips all the time. I have a cheap cell phone. I use it to make phone calls and to get text/voice messages. If I try to connect to the internet, it will just crash. I make a phone call once a week. Sometimes I don’t make any calls for two weeks. Yeah, I don’t have an exciting life at all.

When I see people staring at their smart phones, I wonder what all the fuss is about. Sometimes I walk by and try to peek at the screens. Most of what I’ve seen was: text conversations and video games.

I rode the bus to work today. When I got on the bus, I said hi to the bus driver—who was looking at her smart phone. She didn’t look up or say hi back to me. It was like I was invisible. Then I told her I was making my payment. No response. She just kept tapping her finger on the smart phone screen. So I swiped my bus pass and sat down. I wonder if I could’ve ridden the bus for free since she wasn’t paying attention. As I sat in my seat, I stared at a girl on the bus who was in the same smart phone trance. She was texting someone. This alternate reality makes the real world magically disappear.

I’ll probably buy a smart phone in a couple of years. Maybe I’ll turn into a zombie when I finally get one. I’m not a cell phone hater, I just don’t understand why so many people are in a never-ending trance. You know, there was a time when people would spend a certain part of the day collecting their thoughts and running errands without always needing to be entertained or connected to family & friends.

I work in a retail store, and I try to talk to customers while they have a cell phone on their ears—it’s very frustrating. Some of them will be so deep into a conversation that they’ll leave their merchandise, wallets, purses, and credit cards at the check stand, and walk toward the exit. I get tired of chasing after them. Personally, I would just leave the phone in the car while I’m shopping and have my personal conversation later. I’m not the kind of person that wants strangers to hear my phone conversations in the first place.

I just can’t see myself having a 24 hour/7 day obsession with an electronic device. I love my laptop computer, but I don’t take it with me to the movie theater. I go to the movie theater to watch a movie. I’ve seen people who have missed half of the movie because they were staring at their smart phones. Like, why did they pay for a movie ticket? I doubt that I’d ever be so obsessed with my future smart phone that I’d fall into a manhole or a fountain while texting. When I’m outside, I like to look around and observe my environment. The everyday things are interesting to me: grass, trees, cats, dogs, birds, bugs, people, cars, houses, buildings, and airplanes in the sky.

"I saw that there comes a point, in the defeat of any man of virtue, when his own consent is needed for evil to win-and that no manner of injury done to him by others can succeed if he chooses to withhold his consent. I saw that I could put an end to your outrages by pronouncing a single word in my mind. I pronounced it. The word was ‘No.’" (Atlas Shrugged)

[Anonymous 42]

I recieved a smart phone as a gift, I’m looking at it right now, I’m ashamed of the amount of dust I let accumulate on it! I’m sure the battery is stone dead, I wish they were all like that! Stone DEAD!

The ground would rumble from all the panic…..

[Anonymous 13]

Women and their smartphones are the final nail.

No coming back from this one.

Woman + Smartphone = Walk Away.

[MACHOParticipant]

FunInTheSun wrote:

I admit it: I don’t have a smart phone.

Funny videos LOL! You’re not missing much! I don’t own one, just own a good flip phone but I have to use the latest smart phone that the company provides for my shifts! It’s a f~~~ing pain in the ass! I use tablets when at home in my room or on the go to participate on here!

I still don’t care about smart phones! when I’m taking a walk I don’t want to bury my face in a f~~~ing phone and fall into God knows what! 😜

You must own a better Crystal ball than I

[FunInTheSunParticipant 8283]

I can’t believe people would even consider walking across an intersection w/o looking both ways. That’s something every child should know!

When I walk across a street, I watch the cars. I make sure I get across the street quickly. I don’t trust these drivers—they could be distracted by their smart phones & GPS devices.

"I saw that there comes a point, in the defeat of any man of virtue, when his own consent is needed for evil to win-and that no manner of injury done to him by others can succeed if he chooses to withhold his consent. I saw that I could put an end to your outrages by pronouncing a single word in my mind. I pronounced it. The word was ‘No.’" (Atlas Shrugged)

[Anonymous 13]

It wouldn’t surprise me if it’s all part of some master plan by the evil ones.

Feminism.

Gender war.

Hatred.

Then put them all in Smartphone trances.

Distract them.

Seriously, we are living in some kind smartphone zombie apocalypse.

I see badness coming.

Badness.

[MGTOW_MikeParticipant 6253]

FunInTheSun wrote:

. This alternate reality makes the real world magically disappear.

The last time I used my smartphone to make a call was a few years ago. Heck, my mobile number was disconnected a few times because I have left it idling for a long time. My parents, who are in their 60s, know more than me about using smartphones. I feel so great having being disconnected from this psychosocial world.

A tranquil mind is neither happy nor sad, it is uninfluenced by external conditions.

[Anonymous 13]

FunInTheSun wrote:

I can’t believe people would even consider walking across an intersection w/o looking both ways. That’s something every child should know!

Seriously, you’ve got pedestrians walking out into the road glued to their phone, nearly being hit by drivers on their phone. It’s mostly women too.

The insanity is terminal.

I’ve watched this whole smartphone zombie trance for a while now, years in fact.

What I can tell you is it’s getting so much worse.

Once you begin noticing it properly, you will literally walk around in the world and realise, you’re the only one left.

It’s just you and the smartphone zombies out there.

It’s quite eerie.

Hurry home.

[TheDudeParticipant 724]

I’ve been very interested in this topic for a couple of years now. Dependance on these devices is very real and only looks to get worse in the future.

Never before in human history, has a piece of technology been adopted with such speed and ferocity. TV and Radio took decades to reach the kind of saturation that smartphones are seeing today.

And as we all know… women are the worst users of all. Smartphones are like crack to them.

The “pull” of these devices is extremely strong. I know if I had one, I’d probably use it all the time.

You can’t miss what you’ve never had.

[FunInTheSunParticipant 8283]

Anonymous wrote:

Once you begin noticing it properly, you will literally walk around in the world and realise, you’re the only one left.

That reminds me of the movie, Invasion of the Body Snatchers.

"I saw that there comes a point, in the defeat of any man of virtue, when his own consent is needed for evil to win-and that no manner of injury done to him by others can succeed if he chooses to withhold his consent. I saw that I could put an end to your outrages by pronouncing a single word in my mind. I pronounced it. The word was ‘No.’" (Atlas Shrugged)

[TheDudeParticipant 724]

FunInTheSun wrote:

SpiritRR wrote:

Once you begin noticing it properly, you will literally walk around in the world and realise, you’re the only one left.

That reminds me of the movie, Invasion of the Body Snatchers.

Indeed. Took my kids to the park last week. It was a beautiful sunny day and the place was packed with kids and parents. Every mother was completely glued to her smartphone.

[Truthseeker82Participant 6406]

“Smart” phone is so oxymoron. The only thing smart about these things is the amount of money made by Apple and Samsung LG and the rest. And every year these companies will tweak a feature just a bit so you’ll go out and buy another one. More people are being lost to these pocket size piranhas than drugs – but the similarities are striking. Both hook you in and make you want more.

[IRuleMeParticipant]

Anonymous wrote:

FunInTheSun wrote:

I can’t believe people would even consider walking across an intersection w/o looking both ways. That’s something every child should know!

Seriously, you’ve got pedestrians walking out into the road glued to their phone, nearly being hit by drivers on their phone. It’s mostly women too.

The insanity is terminal.

I’ve watched this whole smartphone zombie trance for a while now, years in fact.

What I can tell you is it’s getting so much worse.

Once you begin noticing it properly, you will literally walk around in the world and realise, you’re the only one left.

It’s just you and the smartphone zombies out there.

It’s quite eerie.

Hurry home.

Two things…

1) People in society today have a “look out for meeeeee!!” mentality. Look at the way they drive. If they’re not self absorbed enough as it is while driving, naturally it would carry over to being a pedestrian. This Pokemon phase hasn’t made it any better.

2) People think “that won’t happen to me”. Till it happens to them. SPLAT! Human roadkill.

[AragornParticipant 277]

The ego, the only real enemy to have ever existed is within us and is never external. All perceptions of an enemy is a projection of the ego – all suffering, all pain, all crime, all struggle, all war, and all negativity imaginable is all of the ego and not an accurate representation of reality.

Which is why the “I”-Phone’s (=aka EgoPhone) symbol is the Apple of Eden. The reason for humanity’s fall.

The greatest enemy will hide in the last place you would ever look.
Julius Caesar, 75BC

If you change the rules on what controls you, you will change the rules on what you can control

[Anonymous 13]

TheDude wrote:

FunInTheSun wrote:

SpiritRR wrote:

Once you begin noticing it properly, you will literally walk around in the world and realise, you’re the only one left.

That reminds me of the movie, Invasion of the Body Snatchers.

Indeed. Took my kids to the park last week. It was a beautiful sunny day and the place was packed with kids and parents. Every mother was completely glued to her smartphone.

This is the truly sad part.

Children who are desperate to be interacting with their parents.

They actually tug on a parents sleeve for some kind of reaction, only to be hushed of told ‘in a minute!’

The minute never comes.

Children are literally alone.

[Manspread MansplainerParticipant 4222]

It’s like having a tracking chip implant.

It records your voice and takes videos of you. NONE of your data is safe. This is not paranoia, in fact it’s part of Facebook’s new malware programming design.
Do you trust them?

The addiction comes by way of: swipe, tap, swipe, tap, tap, tap. Stare at LCD display.
Brainwave off into deep trance.

You should’ve rode the bus for free. 🙂 🙂 🙂

Women spent decades shaming us for being on computers, now it’s been reduced to accessory size and fits in their damn purse.

Almost.

The dumb c~~~s.

If women ran the world = It would become the shithole you are seeing.

[TheDudeParticipant 724]

Manspread Mansplainer wrote:

Women spent decades shaming us for being on computers, now it’s been reduced to accessory size and fits in their damn purse.

Not too long ago, you were considered a sad, lifeless nerd if you spent all day staring at a screen.

Now you’re weird if you don’t.

[Anonymous 18]

That dopamine surge though. Social media thrives off of it.

Like, comment, Subscribe….. To pavement.

[EekParticipant 1162]

Anonymous wrote:

I recieved a smart phone as a gift, I’m looking at it right now, I’m ashamed of the amount of dust I let accumulate on it! I’m sure the battery is stone dead, I wish they were all like that! Stone DEAD!

The ground would rumble from all the panic…..

Tower thanks for the video.

I was listening to a recent podcast where someone said humans are no longer subject to natural selection. That video is proof otherwise.

[AwakenedParticipant 35200]

YOU must be all OLD White GUYS, if YOU don’t even have a Smart phone !! LOL LOL

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