Smart Phone Obsession

[MorpheusParticipant 2177]

Awakened wrote:

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

There is even a newer trend among teenagers, smart watches and smart gadgets.

[AwakenedParticipant 35200]

Morpheus wrote:

Awakened wrote:

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

There is even a newer trend among teenagers, smart watches and smart gadgets.

NEWER CRAP to make ME LOOK even OLDER !! The way of THEIR WORLD !! LOL LOL

In a World of Justin Beibers Be a Johnny Cash

[MorpheusParticipant 2177]

And the way they are marketing it, is even more amazing. You don’t have to take out the phone from your pocket to see the stupid snapchats. And you can have the face to look like any luxury watch in the world. Lol

[Anonymous 3]

Great topic! Lmao at the videos & some of the posts are a trip. We are in a zombie apocalypse. Its so sick its funny.
Actually, LOL this morning. Great stuff here. Thanks to all MGTOWs
I found a home

[Anonymous 11]

I’m forced to have one due to my job. Otherwise, I’d use the cheapest flip phone I can find.

The only smart phone feature I would truly miss would be the live traffic data feeds. It has saved my ass many times from 3 mile traffic backups due to accidents or construction. I won’t leave for anywhere w/o checking traffic. At least I get something tangible in return for being tracked.

Those new Facebook plans for mobile platforms are insidious.

[GregB0Participant]

MGTOW_Mike wrote:

The last time I used my smartphone to make a call was a few years ago.

I do not have a phone for people to contact me, I have a phone for my use in contacting people.

Until three years ago, I had no other need for my analog flip phone than placing calls. I was constantly around computers for any other personal information needs. I did not follow online blogs, YouTube recordings, or streaming web based news media. Access to the Internet was a want and not a need within my personal life. Now that I have a smartphone I find that I use it more to obtain information while away from home or the office. This is only a convenience however and not anything that I have a critical need for.

However the majority of today’s society does have a need to access the Internet to ensure intrinsic validation. The concept of reading a physical book, listening to music within a static environment, going to a museum or library etc. no longer have value as they cannot be shared, regardless of the fact that no one may actually interact with them while being on line via their smartphone. They must be able to post or receive a post to ensure that someone, somewhere knows that they exist. If that person communication is perceived as positive only continues to enable the Internet’s hold on this person.

The possibility that they may get a re-tweet, a blog addition, a request for a Facetime session is the highlight of their day. To do any act in isolation and away from peer review is a wasted act for many when compared to the ability to become a local or regional Kardtrashian by using social media.

Awakened wrote:

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

The mobile device (smartphone/IPad/Chromebook/etc.) has assumed the role of the Bat Utility Belt in today’s society. The device itself is no longer a phone, but an Internet connected Butler. It brings one information (Web Browser), performs functions (Stopwatch, Calorie Counter, Memo reminder, flash light, navigation resource, etc.), acts as a camera, serves as a photo/scrap book, as well as making phone calls.

This need to have the instant gratification of knowledge is a trait that is only found within the Internet generation, or the very insecure. This trait also allows them to seek followers and supporters to fill the void left by a lack of community based socialization. It’s not an issue of technology utilization but rather an acceptance of ones use of technology within society.

Satchel Paige: “Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.”
The same can be said for technology use.

​"​My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.​" - Clarence Buddinton Kelland

[KevinStylesParticipant 2580]

Ya it’s ironic that a device ment to connect us faster and better actually is creating isolation , antisocial behavior and loneliness.

We’ve got a whole generation now brought up on smart phones that don’t know how to interact with each other unless they have a screen and can’t focus on one thing, need to be multitasking all the time doing many things half-assed.

[FunInTheSunParticipant 8283]

Awakened wrote:

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

Well I feel like an old guy because of all this new technology. It’s hard for me to talk to these darn whippersnappers with their 5 second attention spans.

; ^ )

"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 3]

Lol

[ScarberianMPTGLParticipant 3286]

Well, while I can’t understand the need to constantly be staring at your smartphone every waking moment of your life, I do have a smartphone with good games that help me pass the time if I’m traveling on transit and I’m bored or at home and bored…you get the the idea. There are also games on this phone where I can play with a friend. Don’t worry though, I’m not one of those people who’s dumb enough to have his head buried in his phone while crossing a street. Same with just walking on the sidewalk. A smartphone can be useful and helpful, unfortunately most people are just idiots and only use it for dumb s~~~. As far as I’m concerned if you’re on the street the only reason you should be looking at it is to get directions. They don’t know when to put it down and pay attention. I bet even if the world were ending they wouldn’t look up from their screen to check the number of likes they were getting on their T~~~ter or Fakebook. I bet tweets during that would go something like this: “LOL world is ending #armageddon” or along those lines

I, Lelouch Vi Britannia, command you, all of you, to Go Your Own Way!!

[DarkRyuParticipant 2354]

I ALWAYS have a flagship smartphone because I run my BUSINESS from it. That being said, I use it maybe a total of 2 hours a day, and 90% of that time is spent TALKING to clients. 5% is spent texting my clients, and the other 5% is when I get bored and want to play one of those stupid smartphone games that make you pay to play. They limit your resources so you can only play like 10 minutes per day, but that’s enough for me!

I’m sick and tired of these crappy smartphones that only last about 2 years and you have to buy another one. If I didn’t need the GPS and texting ability so badly, I’d buy a flip phone.

I would NEVER cross the street while looking at my smartphone. I don’t care if my most important client called while I was walking across the street. If the matter was urgent, I would wait until I get to the other side of the street, STAND THERE (NOT keep walking!) and answer it, otherwise I’d wait until I get back to my car to call them back while sitting, NOT driving!

If anyone has an excuse to be on their phones all the time, it’s me because I run a very important business. Everyone else? What could they possibly be doing that’s so important? NOTHING! You DO NOT need to be checking your Facebook s~~~ while walking down the street. You DO NOT need to be texting your buddy while driving.

When I go out to eat at a restaurant (rarely, but it happens), I don’t use my smartphone at the table unless I’m alone and really bored. I would NEVER use my smartphone while there was a real life person I could be talking to instead!

I sound like some 60 year old man, but I’m actually 25. Sometimes I feel like the only person my age that actually HAS A BRAIN!!!

[IRuleMeParticipant]

Morpheus wrote:

Awakened wrote:

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

There is even a newer trend among teenagers, smart watches and smart gadgets.

My favorite are the ones who feel the need to walk around watching movies on their phone. Like seriously.. Go home!

[reg22Participant 116]

I had bought my first cellphone after 2011.

Nowadays, I have a really good smartphone, I like taking pictures which just I can see/have, usually from places, never from people nor mine. I have fb, twitter and instamgram account but last time I’ve seen was when I created, sometimes I receive an e-mail “xxx added you”, but I’ll neither open nor answer, I never share anything anywhere, no time to loose. Sometimes, once a week or when someone ask me in person, I open and answer to whatsapp messages.

I like to walk, everyday at morning or at night (1h after/before work). I’ve bought a bluetooth, small, earphone with “active noise cancelling”, it’s so magic, I turn it on and most noise like cars, machines and feminists screaming just disappears while I can listen to classical music and enjoy the view.

I can’t understand how people can loose their time watching social media and putting their entire life into a smartphone, most of them are loosing their time talking to other people who are loosing their time too in infinite discussions about nothing. If there’s something useful, someone will tell me in person.

[FunInTheSunParticipant 8283]

ScarberianMPTGL wrote:

Well, while I can’t understand the need to constantly be staring at your smartphone every waking moment of your life,

What really disgusts me is seeing a guy standing at the urinal while holding a smartphone to his ear. I’m thinking: Dude, can’t you take a 2 minute break from your conversation to use the restroom? Gee whiz. The person on the other end is hearing a bunch of toilets flushing.

"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)

[black_knightParticipant 2602]

Oh man, don’t get me started on these electronic hypodermic needles filled with digital heroin! I’ve noticed acutely over the last few years how widespread they’ve become.

I’m a truck driver, and I’m even witnessing other truck drivers hitch up to their trailers whilst watching videos on their phone. In drivers’ waiting rooms, if there are 10 of us, I’m the only one not holding a smartphone. Last night, as I left an Amazon depot, the security guard wanted to check inside my trailer. So he waited at the back of my truck whilst I walked round to open the door for him, and he’s stood there watching a f~~~ing film. He takes a quick glance in the back, and without even so much an a grunt of acknowledgement, sauntered off back to his little hut glued to his phone. Another time I was taking a s~~~, and I didn’t realise somebody was in the stall about 4 stalls down. From the quiet, I suddenly heard some crappy McDonaldised s~~~ty pop song coming out of a smartphone speaker. I’m almost at the point of boiling over.

Every time I see somebody walking down a street, waiting at a bus stop, standing on a corner, and they’re plugged in to their phone (i.e. everybody) I always feel a deep sense of disappointment, as if another soul has been lost to the needle. Sad, truly sad. In fact I don’t have words to describe how sad and disappointed I feel at people. Have we really become a species of zombies who cannot live for 10 seconds without cheap stimulation or passive entertainment? People have literally dropped their jaws when I pull out my ordinary non-smartphone. I get genuine glances of sympathy, and questions such as “how do you cope in life?” (yes, really). Oh, and of course ridicule.

And then there’s the validation of social media/dating apps. Ego masturbation. A pedestal for the self. The visual identity and impression people construct and manage appears palpable and real. Thus, appearing loved and popular creates the mental illusion of actually being loved and popular. As I said, digital heroin. Heroin for the psyche.

What I cannot believe, is how nobody seems to critique them. People seem to take up whatever is placed in front of them without ever considering the negatives. They’re smart only in relation to the creators, because they’ve pulled in billions, if not trillions of dollars for those smart enough to conceive and develop them. They’re the tool of wet dreams for governments who in the past could only derive 1/1000th of the information garnered today. And that had to be achieved through overt oppression. But we willingly give over tons and tons and tons of information on these mobile tracker devices, all under the illusion of “being connected” or entertainment. Facial recognition software anybody? Those who say “if you’ve doing nothing wrong, you’ve got nothing to fear about surveillance” need to consider that what may be ok today might not be tomorrow. We never know who will sieze power, and they will have a collasal database at their disposal to root out possible dissenters/homosexuals/non-believers/etc/etc… all from our Fakebook posts, tweets, and the rest of it, no matter how innocent it was at the time.

Man, I f~~~ing hate people. lol.

[SamsquanchParticipant 4226]

I have had smart phones since they came out and I’ve never been glued to them like most folks are. Hell I still print out driving directions when I travel. My reason: Technology will fail you at some point or another. So you can be stranded without coverage and a GPS trying to find your destination. Or you can read a f~~~ing map. I still use technology frequently and I’m not a zombie or 100% dependent on it.

Those zombies didn’t even drop their phones while being hit by a two ton vehicle. Losing your life to a piece of f~~~ing plastic…

[Ranger OneParticipant 16836]

Samsquanch wrote:

I have had smart phones since they came out and I’ve never been glued to them like most folks are. Hell I still print out driving directions when I travel. My reason: Technology will fail you at some point or another. So you can be stranded without coverage and a GPS trying to find your destination. Or you can read a f~~~ing map. I still use technology frequently and I’m not a zombie or 100% dependent on it.

Those zombies didn’t even drop their phones while being hit by a two ton vehicle. Losing your life to a piece of f~~~ing plastic…

My ex was obsessed with her phone and her GPS. We had taken 2 cars to the beach to go camping, splitting the kids, 2 in each car.

On the way back from the beach one year, she used GPS and I used written instructions. I got home more than an hour earlier. Took a nice bath, re-hydrated, played computer games, etc.

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[GregB0Participant]

It’s just common sense to have an analog backup to a digital device. An atlas, printed directions and updates from the person you are actually visiting, all should be standard fare to be paired with technology.

Samsquanch wrote:

I still print out driving directions when I travel. My reason: Technology will fail you at some point or another. So you can be stranded without coverage and a GPS trying to find your destination.

​"​My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.​" - Clarence Buddinton Kelland

[bagsofsandParticipant 1391]

KevinStyles wrote:

Ya it’s ironic that a device ment to connect us faster and better actually is creating isolation , antisocial behavior and loneliness.

We’ve got a whole generation now brought up on smart phones that don’t know how to interact with each other unless they have a screen and can’t focus on one thing, need to be multitasking all the time doing many things half-assed.

So nowadays a young man is considered “creepy” when he tries to talk to a girl in a club and she’d rather be left alone so she can record her ego-trip to her Snapchat followers… F~~~ing LOL

I mean, why go to a club to actually interact with other people…?

Guy Has The Best Chat Up Line

When you're minding your own business in the club and then this happens… 😂

Posted by UNILAD Sound on Monday, June 12, 2017

I don’t know WTF “UNILADSounds” is (this was shared by one of my facebook “friends”), UNILAD posted the girls video with a “When you’re minding your own business in the club and then this happens…” comment as headline.

[MGTOW KnightParticipant 7477]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Wow I see this all the time. The phone takes precedence over their own children.

I guess we see where the priorities lie…

Fuck bitches... literally and metaphorically

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